So George Osborne has fired the starting gun on the auction for Northern Rock - a one-time building society that became a bank, went into the FTSE 100, then went bust and had to be nationalised in February 2008... more
The axing of tens of thousands of postal workers, the closure of thousands of post offices and the end of many morning deliveries has seen profits double to £321 million at Royal Mail... more
Foreign firms were vying to buy up large chunks of Royal Mail after it emerged that Lord Mandelson has drafted a £3billion plan to part-privatise the service... more
The Mayor of Tower Hamlets defeated Labour to be elected. Livingstone not only backed him but some of Ken's key players are now at the heart of running the council. Stephen Robinson reports
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