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Osborne’s bleak new year

by Daphne Liddle

CHANCELLOR George Osborne began the New Year by declaring that 2014 will be a “year of hard truths”. He claims the economy “has turned the corner” and that the country is feeling the benefit but that further extreme austerity measures are still needed.

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Korean leader charts the way forward

DEMOCRATIC Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called on the Korean people to make a fresh leap forward on all fronts to build a thriving country with confidence in victory. He called for a fresh upsurge in all economic sectors in a forward march that is an extension of historical progress of the Korean revolution under the uplifted banner of constant innovation and continued progress while highlighting the paramount need to end the partition of the country stressing that that national reunification is the lifetime desire and behests of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il and supreme task of all Koreans.

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Editorial

Cameron’s divide and rule pension pledges

PRIME Minister David Cameron last Sunday told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show that he promises to “protect” the state pension if the Tories are re-elected in 2015 with the “triple lock”, which means that pensions will rise every year according to average wage levels or inflation or 2.5 per cent, whichever is highest.

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