Heather Rabbatts has resigned as a non-executive Director of the Bank due to the pressure of other work commitments since becoming executive deputy chairman of Millwall Football Club. The Bank is extremely grateful for all the work and support Heather has given over the past 4 years.

The pragmatic measures of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua ended the last nationwide workers strike and he is employing the same pragmatic approach to end the protracted ASUU strike.

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Universities' methods of storing research data are "fragmented and incomplete" and they need to do "outstanding and urgent" work to cope with a "deluge" in digital information, says a new report.

It has been alleged that the arms company BAE Systems has paid Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia more than £1 billion, in connection to Britain's biggest ever weapons contract, "Al-Yamamah", worth £43bn.

Over one in 10 British families have gone without medicine (11 per cent) or food (10 per cent) because they didn't have enough money, according to a survey released on Wednesday, 13th June by leading children's charity NCH and Barclays.

In 2006, the European Patent Office (EPO) received a record total of around 207 300 patent applications, 5% up on the previous year (2005: 197 400). There was also a rise of 5%, from 128 000 to 135 200, in the number of new grant proceedings instituted before the EPO. The proportion of filings originating from the 32 member states of the European Patent Organisation fell by over 1%, from 49.6% to 48.5%.

VAR Status Enables RWD to Deliver SAP Packaged Solutions to Mid-Market Companies

RWD Technologies UK Limited (RWD), a company that develops, implements, and supports products and services in the areas of training, consulting, and organisational performance improvement, announced today that it has signed a Channel Partner agreement with SAP (UK) Ltd., enabling RWD to sell and implement SAP All-in-One solutions to mid-market companies as a value-added reseller.

This news release describes the results of the Bank of England's latest quarterly survey of public attitudes to inflation, undertaken in May 2007.

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- From Square-Eyed to Google-Eyed, Nearly Half of UK Homes Spend Three or More Hours a day Online

Key Milestone Reflects Growing Importance of Flexible, Secure Access for Global On-the-Go Employees

In a speech to the Institute of Economic Affairs' conference on the Future of Life Assurance, Stephen Haddrill, Director General of the Association of British Insurers, will today warn that unless the Government ensures that UK Personal Accounts complement, rather than compete with, existing pension provision, its whole programme of pension reform will fail.