• The OECD and IMF have both warned of the need for a credible plan to bring the budget into balance, and ratings agency Standard and Poor's has said it is putting Britain's AAA credit rating on review until such a plan emerges.

    BBC: Dodging the spending challenge

  • David Cameron is likely to paint a rather different picture of Labour's stewardship of the economy, blaming them for presiding over the biggest post-war budget deficit and potentially putting at risk Britain's international credit rating.

    BBC: The Full Story: Budget 2010

  • Last year GuideStar was launched in Britain, putting data online that had been sitting on paper in Charities Commission and tax-office cabinets, largely unlooked at, says Les Hems of the Institute for Philanthropy, the parent organisation of the British end of GuideStar.

    ECONOMIST: Virtue's intermediaries

  • By putting the disputes with Great Britain behind us, Grant helped forge the special relationship that has immensely aided civilization since.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • The pensions reforms Britain is now putting through will, over the decades, give us a system that is affordable and fair between the generations, by ensuring that, though each citizen is guaranteed a basic pension, they will be expected to top that up with their own finances.

    ECONOMIST: Tony Blair

  • More likely, China will now try to patch up relations with Britain, and keep putting a positive gloss on Copenhagen.

    ECONOMIST: China's smile diplomacy shows its teeth

  • Britain has recently been putting public pressure on the World Bank to streamline its processes to ease the availability of funds.

    BBC: Downturn 'risks Africa conflict'

  • Although the government in Britain has committed itself to putting every school online by the year 2002, there have been continued anxieties in schools about the running costs and particularly phone bills.

    BBC: News | Education | Threat to US schools' Internet subsidy

  • And he said Britain would not be disadvantaged by putting itself outside the discussions on the treaty.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • It suggests learning from European neighbours by relying less on volatile market pricing, expanding Britain's storage capacity and putting an obligation on gas suppliers to secure supply.

    BBC: Cooking without gas

  • Now Mr Strauss-Kahn, the real heavyweight among Europe's finance ministers, even though he joined the group only last June, is putting his own spin on the deal Mr Brown thought Britain had struck.

    ECONOMIST: Gordon Brown, the lonely chancellor

  • Yet Tesco can, ironically, also thank movie downloads for putting specialist entertainment retailers like Zavvy and Woolworths out of business in Britain last year, thus giving a boost to its own sales of DVDs and books over Christmas, according to Verdict Research retail analyst Matthew Piner.

    FORBES: Why has a grocery giant started making movies?

  • Belu Spring Water began putting its socially responsible water on supermarket shelves and tables in some of Britain's top restaurants in May 2004.

    CNN: Eco-friendly bottle for ethical water

  • He said Justice Secretary Ken Clarke's plans would "catapult" criminals back onto Britain's streets, accusing the secretary of state of putting the highest number of broken manifesto pledges in a single bill.

    BBC: Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill

  • Britain remains the only nation to have given up the expertise of putting a payload in orbit on an indigenous rocket.

    BBC: Skylon: Ending 40 years of hurt

  • Mr Kavan admits he once misled an inquiry set up by Britain's Broadcasting Complaints Commission after a television documentary had accused him of putting fellow dissidents at risk.

    ECONOMIST: Czechs look queasily back

  • He told me that Britain, and the BBC, saved his life - though I think that is putting it too strongly.

    BBC: Affection for Britain brews in Germany

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