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1st June 2002 Archive

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  • Click here for free World Cup highlight clips

    Goaaaaaaaal!

    French and English fans looking to see video highlights of World Cup games over the Net are been offered a free alterative to the official subscription service from Fifa. Worldcup-02.com and coupe-dumonde-02.com promise video highlights of English and French games respectively. Highlights France's shock 1-0 defeat by unfancied …

    Music and Media 1 Jun 2002, 09:14

  • Barclays, GlaxoSmith Kline slash IT contractor rates

    Not nice

    In a peculiar turn of events this week Barclays Bank and GlaxoSmithKline have announced that the rates typically paid to their IT contractors will be slashed by as much as 25% in the coming months. The news has come as a bitter blow to contractors employed by the firms and, worse still, to the rest of the contractor community …

    Business 1 Jun 2002, 13:02

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