Friday, June 22, 2012

'Cash-tastrophe!'

Friday, June 22, 2012
A banking group said it is "working round the clock" to fix technical problems for NatWest customers before the weekend begins.

Large numbers of customers have been affected by the hitches since Wednesday, and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Group said that many will still only see Thursday's balances showing up on their accounts on Friday.

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Lord Jacob Rothschild: The Business of Resource Scarcity - Realising the Opportunities of Aligning Efficiency and Sustainability
About a year ago Zhou Shengxian, the head of China's recently created Environment Ministry wrote: "In China's thousands of years of civilisation the conflict between humanity and nature has never been as serious as it is today." China's problems of rivers and reservoirs drying up - driven in part by its rush to build economic and physical infrastructure - is a more acute manifestation of climate change and economic development than here in the UK. But the perceived conflict between a sustainable environment and GDP growth is surely the most difficult and complex issue which confronts us today. This is all the more apparent when the planet's population is projected to increase by an additional two billion people to nine billion by the year 2050, including three billion new middle class consumers.
Lucia Fry: What a Rio-l Waste of Time!
Yesterday, a billion people went to bed hungry; tomorrow, that number will almost certainly grow. More than just a terrible waste of time, Rio+20 has been a scandal.
Kit Vaughan: Rio 20: Game Over for Our Planet?
Journalists keep asking what the story is. There is a story but it's a very dark one and in our hearts everybody is looking for a ray of sunshine from Rio+20. But there are worrying signs of the very real and severe failure of the negotiations.
The Guyliner: Don't Put it Away, Madge! It's Time We Got Over Our Horror at Madonna's Refusal to Act Her Age
But now Her Madgesty has displeased her once-devoted flock. But what could it be? The slow degeneration of her music material? The ever-increasing cost of tickets to see her perform live? Well, perhaps, but Madonna's crime seems to be the one that most of us commit eventually, if we're lucky - she got old.
Andy Zaltzman: What We Have Learned This Week: Hosni Mubarak is a Natural-Born Opinion-Splitter
Hosni Mubarak, the former 29-time Egyptian President Of The Year, has this week had the world bickering over whether or not (and to what extent) he is or isn't still alive, just as, for so many years, he had had the self-same planet squabbling over whether or not (and to what extent) he was or wasn't a goodie or a baddie.
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