HM Revenue and Customs says some 1.4 million people each owe about £1,500 in tax, while 4.3 million will get an average rebate of £418.
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Police declare an overnight curfew in Christchurch, New Zealand, after a powerful earthquake causes considerable damage but no fatalities.
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Labour leadership hopeful Ed Balls says the home secretary should make a statement about claims of phone tapping by the News of the World.
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Shoes, eggs and plastic bottles are thrown at Tony Blair as he arrives at a book-shop in Dublin to sign copies of his memoirs.
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A Tory councillor defects to Labour over cuts to the government's schools building programme, saying she was "ashamed to be a Conservative".
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Tens of thousands gather in Paris and other French cities to protest against the government's policy of deporting Roma people.
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A badly burned body is found in undergrowth between the 17th and 18th holes of an East Sussex golf course.
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Scientists from the US space agency Nasa advise the trapped Chilean miners to exercise and regulate their day and night sleep patterns.
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Jamie Carragher marked his big day with a goal for each side in his testimonial at Anfield.
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Frank Lampard has declared there is more to come from the Barclays Premier League champions.
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Defender Michael Dawson has returned to Tottenham Hotspur with a knee injury.
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Liverpool do not expect Fernando Torres to reach his physical peak for another month
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Hatem Ben Arfa is raring to go after making his season-long loan switch to Newcastle United.
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Marc-Antoine Fortune says West Bromwich Albion are better placed to stay up than they were two years ago.
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Theo Walcott was delighted to see Jermain Defoe steal his mantle as the last player to score a hat-trick for England.
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West Ham United, Nigeria and Chelsea emerged victorious from a series of Premier League Youth Festivals.
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The 2010 CMA Awards nominations came out yesterday, and despite nine well-deserved nominations for Miranda Lambert, including Entertainer of the Year, most of the chatter was about the blondes missing from that category. Although they both had typically strong years, Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood will be sitting out the race for the top prize at country's big fall awards show -- and it's not super clear why.
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There are plenty of reasons to be excited about the fall. We've got pumpkins, colorful leaves, Halloween, and whatnot. But the hands-down best thing about fall is that this is the season when the "good" movies come out.
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Chrissie Hynde is an intimidating presence. Maybe it's her unflinching gaze and unapologetic swagger. Maybe it's the fact that she's the iconic lead singer of the Pretenders and a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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"Going the Distance" is a light and tasty morsel of a romantic comedy in which two smart, funny, and basically sweet people try to conduct a cross-country relationship.
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George Clooney's new thriller "The American" takes itself very seriously. Not the bait-and-switch seriousness you would find in a Jason Bourne movie, where "realism" is just a camera style; and not the op-ed seriousness we get from "Michael Clayton," or "Syriana", where liberalism makes a pact with entertainment. No, this is a different register altogether: a hit-man movie concerned purely with the spiritual standing of its agonized anti-hero.
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Cammie King Conlon, who played the ill-fated Bonnie Blue Butler in "Gone With the Wind," used to joke "that I peaked at age 5."
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The most spoken words during Sunday night's 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards may be "Glee" and "Mad Men," as those two shows dominate nominations with a total of 36.
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Last night's Emmys began with a star-studded musical shout-out -- or was it a sing-out? -- to "Glee," the much-loved new series about the importance of being yourself. And the evening's best-dressed celebrities seemed to take that show's message to heart: Although a few trends did emerge (hello, navy!), each of our top style stars picked a unique, gorgeous gown that perfectly suited the woman underneath.
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The senator wants the Federal Reserve to look more closely at credit-card issuers marketing business cards to consumers
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Small business cardholders still face penalties that issuers are now barred from charging consumers
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Small companies are desperate for growth capital, but banks and investors remain cautious, says Pepperdine Private Capital Markets Project's John Paglia
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To increase your odds of getting paid, act quickly. Maintaining a credit policy can help you avoid getting into the situation
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Tragedy led Goldman Sachs analyst Monique Péan to make jewelry as a form of therapy. Now Michelle Obama wears her pieces
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The United Arab Emirates is in the final stages of enacting new laws and updating existing regulations to boost investor confidence in the second-largest economy in the Persian Gulf, Minister of Economy Sultan Bin Saeed al-Mansouri was cited as saying by the WAM news agency.
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Giants such as GE and PepsiCo are sponsoring competitions that let startups strut their stuff
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