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    Applications for graduate posts have hit a record high this year

    Up to 270 graduates are battling for every job vacancy after the recession triggered an unprecedented scramble, a study shows today.

    Applications for graduate posts have hit a record high this year as rejected candidates from 2008 and 2009 swell the ranks of job-seekers.

    Many firms have faced a recruitment squeeze over the last two years, maki

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    Home Office to water down cap on immigration

    The Home Office has been forced to water down its flagship cap on immigration following a Cabinet revolt led by Vince Cable.

    Home Secretary Theresa May today announced the first-ever limit on the numbers of economic migrants that can come into Britain from outside the EU.

    But Mr Cable, the Liberal Democrat Business Secretary, has forced a cl

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    Joyrider, 16, who stole his father's Mercedes killed in car crash

    A schoolboy was killed after stealing and crashing his father's luxury Mercedes in a high speed police chase.

    Rambo Osmanovic, 16, was driving his father's £35,000 Mercedes E270 at more than 100mph when he lost control of the vehicle as he tried to outrun a police patrol.

    He careered off the road and was killed instantly when the car

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    Staff at Fat Duck restaurant hit by sickness outbreak Investigators probing the sickness outbreak at Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck restaurant are focusing on staff infected by the winter vomiting bug.

    Inquiries by The Mail on Sunday suggest 16 of the celebrity chef’s staff were struck by the norovirus before the restaurant closed late last month.

    Four hundred people complained of illness after visiting the Micheli
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    Ministers to end scandal of benefits claimants

    The biggest shake-up of Britain's welfare system for decades will end the scandal of millions of people being paid to stay out of work.

    Ministers are preparing to offer a radical 'make work pay' guarantee that will ensure that around 40p in every extra £1 that claimants earn stays in their pocket, the Daily Mail has learned.

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    Tower of power lights up London Artists are lighting up London’s South Bank with 1200 wind-powered lights as part of a digital arts festival.

    The Aeolian tower - which means moved by the wind - is a 15m steel structure located next to Waterloo Bridge.

    The tower is covered with hundreds of tiny wind-powered LEDs. Each one made of a plastic turbine, controlling circuits and three red LEDs.<
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      What younger workers really want Corporate and social responsibility is not as important to Generation Y as previously thought, a new study suggests. Instead, bonuses and salary considerations are paramount

      The so-called Generation Y - those born after 1982 - expect more employee benefits than older workers and value salary more highly than corporate social responsibility, according to a survey by recruitment
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