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• When Lady Macbeth was good for a laugh | Letters

  31-12-2017 19:48
  Trevor Nunn’s Macbeth | Pensions | Prison suicides | Storm Dylan | Milk moneyMichael Billington may well believe that Trevor Nunn’s 1976 production of Macbeth was the best (Profile, 30 December) but the one time I used a video of this version as a teaching aid, a much more critical audience of Oldham teenagers collapsed with laughter at Lady M’s sleep-walking scene and continued to mimic her wailing (which they likened to a whistling kettle) for some time afterwards. My vote fo
  
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• Hammond relying on household debt to hit targets, says McDonnell

  31-12-2017 18:44
  Labour frontbencher says millions of families are seeing earnings squeezed so that chancellor can pretend to meet targetsJohn McDonnell has accused the government of relying on millions of British families going further into debt in order to meet Treasury targets.The shadow chancellor said families were set to borrow £445bn by the end of the parliament. He also highlighted official figures showing the ratio between household debt and income had reached a five-year high, with forecasts sugg
  
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• What’s rising and falling in 2018? – Five minute guide

  31-12-2017 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  NEXT year looks set to be a big one for savers, who will be hoping that the high-street banks finally start to offer some halfway decent rates again.
  
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• Personal finance advice: How to be more resolute with your money in 2018

  31-12-2017 15:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  IF YOU have resolved to lose weight, get fit, eat more healthily, give yourself a makeover or learn a new skill this year, be warned, it could cost you dear.
  
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• Despite stock market record highs, do not be fooled that all is well, says GEOFF HO

  31-12-2017 15:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  STOCK MARKETS closed 2017 at record highs – but do not be fooled into thinking that all is well with Britain.
  
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• CountingUp offer users an app that will automatically do their accounts and bookkeeping

  31-12-2017 15:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  COUNTINGUP, a digital small business focussed bank, is to launch in January and will offer users a smartphone app that will automatically do their accounts and bookkeeping for them.
  
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• Bitcoin craze: 'Fear of missing out' trade will lead to 'DRAMATIC' falls in Bitcoin value

  31-12-2017 15:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  BITCOIN will establish itself as a "great alternative currency" but will have to go through "dramatic falls" in value, trading strategist Todd Horwitz said.
  
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• Unipart manufacturing and Coventry University combine to produce more 'rounded engineers'

  31-12-2017 15:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  A PIONEERING scheme set up by global components manufacturer Unipart and Coventry University to produce a pipeline of engineers has just completed its first training round.
  
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• Best Western expects a great year in 2018 due to weak pound

  31-12-2017 15:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  BEST WESTERN, the world’s largest independent operator of hotels, is predicting a sector beating year for its UK arm in 2018 due to the weak pound.
  
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• The man behind Westminster favourite The Cinnamon Club to open new 'soul food' restaurant

  31-12-2017 15:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  THE man behind the upmarket west London restaurant favoured by politicians is to open a Southern US-style eatery called Atticus in February, which he hopes to expand into a nationwide chain.
  
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• From quitting smoking to getting out of debt: Guardian readers on the resolutions they kept this year

  31-12-2017 13:00
  Ros feels fitter than ever at 71. Julia has found happiness. We asked readers how they ditched their bad habits and formed good ones – here are their inspiring storiesNew Year resolutions are made in the hope this year will be different, we’ll have a new start, ditch habits that have been holding us back and take up those that will lead to a happier, healthier life. All too often, though, they have been scuppered by 3 January. But not always. We asked readers about the resolutions th
  
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• The EU still represents a bulwark against the corruption of 19th-century trade

  31-12-2017 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Outside a single market trying to keep faith with ethical trading, Britain faces a dog-eat-dog world of opacity and compromiseThe patterns of global trade are moving into a new era, except that they look like a re-run of a terrible past.It’s not so much a concern about the rise of isolationist nation states – ones that put protectionist trade policies before the world’s economic health. The fear must be that trade reverts to the 19th-century rulebook that rewarded the countries
  
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• Even bravery won’t help the nightmare of Brexit’s new world

  31-12-2017 08:00 via theguardian.com
  The powerful forces driving the current nationalist upheaval also present the prospect of a future only previously imagined by Huxley or OrwellMost readers will be familiar with Aldous Huxley’s vision of a dystopian future, Brave New World. Indeed, my contemporaries and I often find ourselves observing that this or that latest invention could have come straight out of Huxley’s nightmare vision.Given the reaction against the ill-effects of globalisation by those who have been left beh
  
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