No one will be laid off but . . . London's two hospitals have cut a deal to balance their budgets by axing positions and shifting some employees to other agencies.

KUCHING: Armed forces personnel retire 18 years earlier than those who work in the civil service, often leaving them in a financial bind. Leaving the service at age 40 means many still have mortgages to pay off and children to educate.

A study saying consumers should play a bigger role in reviewing mergers and antitrust cases won a positive response from some competition authorities and experts on Friday.

NEW rules will kick in on July 14 making it a crime for employers to accept kickbacks to hire foreign workers. Employment agencies making such offers will also be running afoul of the law.

COATBRIDGE and Airdrie have often been described as building sites - mostly for all the wrong reasons. Not so long ago, with Carbuncle Award nominations and empty brownfield sites round every corner, the Monklands area hardly looked healthy.