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The majority owner of Canary Wharf, Songbird Estates, revealed on Thursday the biggest-ever equity raising by a UK property company in order to pay off a loan that threatened to push the business into collapse.

'We worked so damned hard...’

Neil Tweedie and Yvette Essen Daily Telegraph 11.12.2008
'We worked so damned hard...’

The Telegraph has launched a fair-deal campaign for pensioners who, having saved diligently for their old age, can no longer live on their savings alone. Neil Tweedie and Yvette Essen discover how some of those affected by plummeting interest rate...


Thousands of British pensioners living in sunshine abroad will receive winter fuel payments...  costing taxpayers up to £15m

British pensioners living overseas should be stopped from raking in millions of pounds in winter fuel payments, campaigners are insisting.

New Brain Fitness Program to Fight Memory Loss

Chris Thomson MarketWatch 19.09.2008
New Brain Fitness Program to Fight Memory Loss

PERTH, Australia, Sept 19, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Western Australians will be the first in the country to take part in a brain fitness initiative that has been shown to improve a person's ability to think faster, focus better and remember...


Israeli woman claims to be world's oldest person

A woman has declared herself the oldest living person after her birth certificate was uncovered, showing she is 120. Mariam Amash rises every morning at 5am, walks unaided, and attributes her longevity to a diet rich in vegetables.

Fashion runway puts spring in their steps

Ian B. Murphy Lexington Minuteman 26.01.2008
Helen Wickens walks down the ‘catwalk’ Tuesday afternoon during the Coldwater Creek fashion show at Youville Place in Lexi... By Matthew Modoono/Staff photographer

Lexington - The spring fashions are in, and Tuesday they were on the residents and staff of Youville Place as they made their way up and down the catwalk.