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Tories vow to scrap Labour tax rise - Bishops hit out at 'immoral' Labour - Adams calls in administrators.



Tories vow to scrap Labour tax rise

The Tories are set to scrap at least one of Labour's tax rises if they win the next general election, according to George Osborne.

Bishops hit out at 'immoral' Labour

The Government was embroiled in another row with the Church of England after bishops condemned its policies as "morally corrupt".

Adams calls in administrators

The retail crisis looked set to claim another victim after it was confirmed childrenswear chain Adams had applied to appoint administrators.

Missing Youngster 'Safe And Well'

The hunt for a missing 10-year-old has been called off after she was found safe and well in a park near her home.

Britain urges end to Gaza bloodshed

Britain called for an "immediate halt to all violence" in Gaza as Israel's devastating airstrikes continued.

Polar plunge fundraisers proliferate

The Lobster Dip was launched 21 years ago as Maine's first happening where people could raise money for a good cause by stripping down in the freezing winter air and running half-naked into the bone-chilling ocean.

Ask why: States seek efficiency via Japanese way

The time it takes to get a complaint decided at Ohio's Bureau of Workers' Compensation has plummeted from an average of 142 days to 34. Licensing a snowmobile in Iowa involves 90 percent fewer steps today than it did two years ago.

Bad harvest, low demand threaten Pacific fishermen

An unusually weak Dungeness crab harvest is compounding the financial woes of West Coast fishermen who were already struggling with depressed consumer demand and the unprecedented collapse of the Pacific chinook salmon fishery.

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