Fife County, Scotland News

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland - Finance minister Jim Flaherty has dismissed the idea of imposing a tax on financial transactions to guard against another crisis in the banking sector.

A FORMER Secret Service agent responsible for protecting three US presidents has spoken of his plans to create hundreds of jobs at a North-East security firm.

G20 Finance ministers failed to reach agreement on the financing required for a global agreement to stave off catastrophic climate change, according to WWF Scotland.

Published: Monday, November 9, 2009 at 4:03 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, November 9, 2009 at 4:03 p.m. The stock market closed at a 2009 high of 10,227 today, the highest close since October 2008.

It is still too early to remove stimulus, and climate change financing remains the key to success of the Copenhagen conference, the G20 finance ministers and bank governors said Saturday.

Dollar down again as G20 backs ongoing stimulus, IMF says dollar remains 'on the strong side' LONDON - LONDON a ' The euro pushed back up above $1.50 Monday after finance ministers from the Group of 20 rich and developing countries steered clear from addressing the weakness of the U.S. currency against most of its competitors at a meeting over the ...

Group of 20 governments signaled banks will be forced to cover a greater cost of future bailouts even as they split over whether that should be achieved by taxing financial trading.

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland, Nov 6 - You could almost begin to divide the figures before you add them up.

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland - The United States and Britain voiced disagreement Saturday over a proposal that would impose a new tax on financial transactions to support future bank rescues.

In Afghanistan, teams of British disposal experts rely on both skill and luck to neutralise hundreds of improvised explosive devices every month When Staff Sergeant Stevie Jack kneels in the dust of Helmand province beside a Taliban bomb, he wonders whether this could be the day when two detonator wires get blown together by an Afghan breeze.

Following is the text of the communique issued by finance ministers and central bank governors at their meeting in St.

NAYSAYERS: Protestors from the 'Put People First' action group in action during the G20 Finance Ministers meeting in St Andrews, Scotland.

U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling urged the Group of 20 nations to maintain stimulus measures for their economies to cement a recovery from the worst recession in six decades.

A CHAMPION Scottish motorbike racer was yesterday cleared of killing an OAP pedestrian but found guilty of dangerous driving.

Prime minister vows not to 'walk away' from fight with Taliban as poll shows 35% believe troops should come home The coffin of Corporal Thomas Mason, victim of roadside bomb in Afghanistan in September, carried into Trinity Parish Church in Cowdenbeath in Scotland.

Nov. 6 -- Egyptian Finance Minister Youssef Boutros-Ghali talks with Bloomberg's Francine Lacqua about the outlook for the global economy.

A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Friday: ___ LONDON - Government-controlled Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC reported a quarterly loss of 1.8 billion pounds despite an improvement in underlying profits and said lending to small- and medium-sized companies increased 5 percent.

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THE mother of a soldier who died weeks after being wounded in Afghanistan today remembered her "brave" son as "the best there ever was". Corporal Thomas Mason, known as Tam, from Fife, was caught by an improvised explosive device in Kandahar province on September 15.

A DRIVER accused of causing a road accident that killed a pensioner was once a champion motorbike racer.