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Terra Firma takeover prompts new uncertainty
Care home patients across Britain face fresh uncertainty after private equity giant Terra Firma agreed an £825 million takeover of Four Seasons Health Care. Four Seasons employs 30,000 staff in more than 500 care homes – including 140 which it acquired last year when its rival Southern Cross went bankrupt after another botched private equity [...]
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Facts confirm it: joblessness and crime are linked
Any suggestion that unemployment does not lead to higher crime and social disorder – a belief in some quarters of the coalition Government – is destroyed by new research released by the House of Commons library. The analysis, taking the latest crime and unemployment figures for 2011, shows a direct link at constituency level between [...]
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Unions say new jobs package is inadequate
New proposals by the European Union for a job-rich economic recovery have provoked scepticism from trade unions. The European Commission’s employment package is designed to tackle record unemployment rates right across the continent. The number of people out of work in the 27 member states has continued to rise since it hit a record high [...]
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Putin set for third term
Vladimir Putin will be inaugurated on May 7 as President of the Russian Federation for a third time following his emphatic endorsement by the electorate in elections in March. Under Mr Putin, as President and Prime Minister, Russia has become an energy superpower while its territorial integrity, threatened during the 1990s as a result of [...]
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Mass protests against austerity ‘death spiral’
Europe is being rocked by a rising tide of rebellion against austerity and neo-liberal economic reform programmes with “too big to fail” Spain and Italy at the forefront of this popular rage. In Spain, 100,000 took to the streets on April 29 to protest against cuts to education and health services. This follows a general [...]