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...French, German and Dutch banks confessed to being hit by their exposure to soured U.S. sub-prime mortgages, an RBS-led consortium was closing in on its eventual $100 billion buy-out of Dutch rival ABN Amro, the banking industry's biggest ever takeover. One year on, and Britain's second-largest lender is still making news - though these days it's much less welcome. On August 8, RBS announced it had tumbled to a $1.33 billion loss in the first half of this year - a massive drop from the $9.6 billion profit it recorded in the first six months...
...Statistics on childhood obesity in Britain make grim reading. Figures from 2006, the most recent numbers, show that nearly a third of all children aged between two and 15 are overweight or obese, an overall increase of 11% from...
Though alarmist headlines might suggest otherwise, recent statistics show that the Met has been living up to its international reputation. Across Britain's capital, crime is down by a total of 19% over the past four years, with sanction detections - where an offender has not only been caught but charged as well - up from 12.7% to 25.4% in the same period. "No one in Europe is better," says a senior Italian law-enforcement official...
...case highlights the intense pressure the constant threat of terrorism places on the Met, which leads all counterterrorism investigations in Britain as well as those affecting British nationals abroad. A New York Police Department (NYPD) official who has worked closely with the Met says the scale of London's counterterrorism operation is striking: "The numbers there are just overwhelming - just an astounding number of people they're trying to keep track of." It's not just that his London counterparts have more practice in counterterrorism operations, says Deputy Chief Michael P. Downing, Commanding Officer of the Los Angeles Police Department...
...officers in Hackney, a northeast London area of such economic, cultural and ethnic diversity that it throws up just about all the challenges big-city police are ever likely to face: murders, street and domestic violence, burglaries, drugs, teenage gangs and immigrant populations reliving distant conflicts on Britain's streets. Hackney police are distributed across several stations and, as Dann explains with the help of a complex diagram, into different "business groups" and areas of expertise, divided again into uniformed and nonuniformed officers. "It sometimes can be detrimental to some of our responses when we work within these portfolios," says...