Extra, Extra

By Rob Last edited 220 months ago

Last Updated 20 December 2005

Extra, Extra
  • Millionnaire banker Paul Deighton has accepted the £300,000 a year position of chief executive officer for Locog - the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games. Seb Coe assured Radio 4 listeners this morning that he "wasn't doing it for the money".
  • Record high Christmas bonuses could send property prices even higher.
  • The RMT has set out a 'Cleaners’ Charter', demanding an immediate increase in their minimum wage and "more dignity at work".
  • Men in the city of London work the shortest hours (around 37.3 hours a week) according to the annual Survey of Hours and Earnings.
  • Tara Palmer-Tomkinson talks about how generous she is to homeless people in her area, it's part of her guilt for being rich and doing loads of drugs you see.
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