Troubled parts of UK Coal, Britain's largest coal mining business, could return to public ownership under plans being discussed by ministers that would protect some or all of the company's ailing pension scheme.
The 40 paintings and drawings were offered to the nation after Freud's death in 2011, representing the largest ever single agreement under the acceptance in lieu (AIL) scheme.
The European Parliament has rejected a plan to rescue the EU's ailing carbon trading scheme.
Warring between pupils at the merged schools, a failed Ofsted inspection and the replacement of the schools' head and executive head triggered accusations that the government's academies scheme was ailing.
Mary Portas's scheme to revitalise ailing high streets has failed to stop the rot – with 10 out of the 12 towns selected to share £1.2m of taxpayers' cash seeing an increase in empty shopping outlets.
Had the CVA, a payment scheme between an ailing company and its creditors, been accepted, the club may have been able to come out of administration.
The pension system is ailing.
Alistair Darling today pledged to reinvigorate Britain's ailing economy with a £1.7bn job creation scheme and a new 50p income tax band for the highest paid.
As The Economist went to press, the government was due to announce further austerity and structural reforms, as well as details of the latest scheme to recapitalise the country's ailing banks.
"The reason why some people joined the schemes is because they or their family members were ailing.
