The chairman of 82% taxpayer-owned Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) says banker pay has been “high for too long” and needs to be corrected.

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RBS boss calls for pay correction

The Royal College of GPs calls for the health bill to be scrapped, heaping more pressure on the government’s controversial reforms in England.

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GP leaders turn back on NHS plans

Former Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive Fred Goodwin, heavily criticised over the bank’s near collapse, loses his knighthood.

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Goodwin stripped of knighthood

A £963,000 bonus in shares awarded to Royal Bank of Scotland boss Stephen Hester is strongly criticised by politicians and unions.

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Outrage at RBS boss’s bonus deal

A Royal Navy engineer who tried to rape a woman in her own home after she had earlier rejected his advances in a pub is jailed for seven years.

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Navy man jailed for rape attempt

Labour leader Ed Miliband says that, in retrospect, it was “clearly wrong” for former Royal Bank of Scotland chief Fred Goodwin to be knighted.

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Miliband: Fred’s ‘Sir’ should go

The Royal Navy has captured 13 Somali pirates after boarding a dhow in the Indian Ocean, the Ministry of Defence says, as part of a Nato-led operation.

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Royal Navy takes Somali pirates

The Royal Bank of Scotland says it is to cut 3,500 jobs in the UK and elsewhere as it shrinks its investment bank.

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RBS to cut 3,500 jobs in shake-up

The day after the royal premiere of War Horse, UK film critics have mixed thoughts on the Steven Spielberg epic.

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War Horse splits UK film critics

Grants from the Royal Society are allowing schools to do cutting edge experiments in the classroom.

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Grants allow real school science

The Royal Mint has issued a new 50p coin which attempts to explains football’s offside rule to the many who do not understand it.

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VIDEO: Coin aims to explain offside rule

Detectives start a murder inquiry after the discovery of a woman’s remains in woodland on the royal Sandringham Estate.

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Murder inquiry at Queen’s estate

It was Kate Middleton ’s year: The newly minted Duchess won the heart of both Prince William and the world, with her easy grace and shiny — so shiny! — hair. She was runner-up for Time Magazine’s Person of the year (“The Protester” won), and was recently named 2011’s best-mannered person (The worst? Kim Kardashian.) Her uterus even made our year-end list of what’s in and out , replacing her sister Pippa’s posterior as the royal body part fueling national speculation. Read full article > >

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Kate Middleton: All of her best outfits for 2011

Sailors being made redundant by the Royal Navy could be recruited by the Royal Australian Navy.

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Australia may recruit UK sailors

The Duke of Edinburgh has spent a third night in hospital and may miss the Royal Family’s traditional Boxing Day shoot.

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Prince Philip still in hospital