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Back to the 80s?

Two million on the dole by Christmas

Companies are being squeezed as the City turmoil spreads into the so-called real economy
Writers pen protests at terror bill

42 writers will publish work attacking the government's detention without charge plans
Staff rob the taxman of record sum

Nine convicted of fraud after investigations into £2.3m that went missing
Station refuses train death sculpture

Section of frieze depicting commuter falling into path of train driven by Grim Reaper will not go on show at St Pancras

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Don't worry about inflation

Oct 12 2008:
Tom Cunningham: There are plenty of things to be anxious about in the current financial crisis, but inflation is not one of them
Don't make a crisis into a depression

Oct 12 2008:
Chris Osborne: Let's take a step back and consider how we can reform the world's dysfunctional markets
Blair intervened over F1 tobacco ban exemption, documents show

Oct 12 2008:
Tony Blair personally intervened to secure an exemption for formula one from a tobacco advertising ban just hours after meeting the sport's boss, Bernie Ecclestone, according to Whitehall documents
Economic uncertainty spreads to education

Oct 12 2008:
Melissa Benn: A sponsor's withdrawal from one of the first city academies highlights the problems with letting private capital run public services
Too few prisons, too many prisoners

Oct 12 2008:
It only needs an incident such as a fire and Scotland's overcrowded jails will reach crisis point, says Jim Wallace
Smeaton's fiancée flies to his hospital bed

Oct 12 2008:
Baggage handler who became a hero after Glasgow airport attack in recovery after severe asthma attack
IRA 'gave its consent' to murder of Billy Wright

Oct 12 2008:
Wright's family allege prison authorities and security forces 'turned a blind eye' to INLA danger
Boom in self-catering holidays as crunch bites

Oct 12 2008:
Overseas breaks shunned as hard-up families make half-term bookings

Crofters angry as windsurfers 'tear up island'

Oct 12 2008:
Annual Wave Classic championships threatens to damage environmentally fragile areas of Inner Hebrides
Omagh lawyer calls for GCHQ secrets

Oct 12 2008:
Intercepts of the calls between bomb plotters are 'absolutely central' to civil case against Real IRA
ID cards plan in crisis as the 'guinea pigs' revolt

Oct 12 2008:
Airline pilots vow to take legal action as opposition sweeps through Britain's universities and councils
Badgers blamed as TB in cats suggests disease is on the rise

Oct 12 2008:
DEFRA figures showing rise in cats with bovine tuberculosis prompt claims the disease is out of control
WI battles for right to send aid to soldiers

Oct 12 2008:
Defence chiefs say cutting off supply of home comforts will avoid a postal logjam at Christmas
Why John longed to be Jock Lennon

Oct 12 2008:
He never forgot his childhood holidays in the Scottish village of Durness. Now it is remembering him
Met quizzed over leaks in Dizaei probe

Oct 12 2008:
Corruption inquiry into allegations officers passed 'unauthorised' data concerning Ali Dizaei, to Daily Mail