Wednesday, 19 May 2010

The First Post 

The First Post

Taliban attack Bagram as Nato death toll rises

US deaths in Afghanistan pass 1,000 landmark; British casualties double in a year

Price inflation at 3.7 per cent puts VAT rise in doubt

Mervyn King confident it will fall again soon - but rate is higher than the City expected

Gordon Brown 'wanted to stand down within a year'

Number Ten aide says former PM knew his weaknesses and was talked out of promising to resign

Elvis Costello pulls out of Israel gigs

British singer is the latest performer to join Israel boycott

RBS executive Cameron banished from the City

Johnny Cameron agrees to leave the banking industry to avoid punishment after FSA probe

'Banker to the poor' brings microcredit ideal to NYC

Muhammad Yunus sends a message to Wall Street by opening a Grameen Bank branch in NYC

Wild Weller

In pictures: A new exhibition documents Paul Weller's career in pictures