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• As government flounders, investors find a way to curb executive pay

  24-03-2019 08:00
  An unlikely hero – the Investment Association – is wading into pension inequality with a simple, compelling propositionWhen the former Royal Bank of Scotland boss Fred Goodwin reluctantly agreed, in the wake of the bank’s collapse and nationalisation, to cut his annual retirement income to £342,500 a year from £555,000, it clearly illustrated the excessive amounts of cash stashed away in boardroom pensions.Almost all Britain’s largest companies – and man
  
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• Supermarkets urged to stop stalling over glitter sales ban

  24-03-2019 07:00
  Big retailers must back customers’ wishesand phase out microplastics, campaigners say as petition is launchedIt is a familiar adornment of both Mother’s Day and Easter gifts, and brings dustings of sparkle to everything from children’s craft projects to greetings cards and even flowers and pot plants. But campaigners are calling for a ban on glitter, branding it an environmental scourge that contains damaging microplastics.“Glitter might look lovely but, because it’
  
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