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• Online fashion retailer hunts for buyer after profit warning

  6 Jan 2009: EBTM, the music-related online fashion retailer has given a profit warning after a poor Christmas and is looking for a buyer

• Watchdog savages pub landlord Punch's boardroom payout plan

  6 Jan 2009: Executive pay deals at struggling pub landlord Punch Taverns are unacceptable, says an investor group

• Cameron's plans are a cut above

  6 Jan 2009:

  Matthew Elliott: There is plenty of scope for the Tory leader to make his proposed £5bn cut in public spending without affecting frontline services

• Iceland may take UK to European court over freezing of bank assets

  6 Jan 2009:

  Reykjavik hopes court of human rights will award damages after Gordon Brown froze Icelandic banks' assets

• A bus worth waiting for

  6 Jan 2009:

  James Randerson: This campaign is the antithesis of the 'shouty atheism' so beloved of religious caricaturists

• Tories on the look-out for embarrassing candidates

  6 Jan 2009:

  Newsnight's Michael Crick has got hold of an internal Conservative party memo which reveals that officials have been discussing how to deal with flaky parliamentary candidat

• Atheist bus campaign spreads the word of no God nationwide

  6 Jan 2009:

  Donations totalling more than £140,000 to fund adverts on 600 buses across UK as well as in London tube stations

• Have you got a prayer for our financially hard times?

  6 Jan 2009: Anglican church offers solace to thousands losing their jobs in recession, and comfort to those who still have work

• Skippers and boat owners fined £200,000 over black fish scam

  6 Jan 2009: Vessel masters fiddled catch quotas and recorded precious fish as different species

• David Cameron calls for league tables to improve UK prisons

  6 Jan 2009: Tory leader leads attack on prison service and courts new ideas to rebuild economy

• Vicar has 'horrifying' statue of crucifixion removed from church

  6 Jan 2009: Resin sculpture that 'scared children and deterred worshippers' to be replaced by steel cross

• Mini-turbines to harness energy from pressure in UK's gas pipelines

  6 Jan 2009:

  British engineers are set to use the UK's gas pipelines to generate clean electricity by placing small turbines inside the network to harness the huge pressure

• Degas' little dancer steps out into collectors' market

  6 Jan 2009: Rare cast of only sculpture artist exhibited during his lifetime expected to fetch to £12m

• Suffering in silence

  Audio (25min 57sec), 6 Jan 2009:

  Audio: Sunny Hundal looks for reasons why British Asian women are more likely to become depressed and suicidal than white women

• Making waves

  6 Jan 2009:

  Colin Luckhurst: The Severn barrage would be good for renewable energy, but the conservationists make a powerful case against it

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