Current Day's News | Thu, 24-Jul-2008 |
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Credit crunch sees shop spending plunge [07/24/2008 01:17 PM]
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Retail sales last month suffered their biggest slump for more than 20 years, official figures showed today
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Illegal downloaders to face the music [07/24/2008 01:17 PM]
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Parents of teenagers who illegally download music will be sent letters informing them what their children have been doing
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Market report: Thursday latest [07/24/2008 01:17 PM]
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12.15:The housebuilding sector has rallied 30% on the back of various trading updates and the shorts closing their positions
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Families 'to be forced to fit water meters' [07/24/2008 01:17 PM]
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Water companies are to be given new powers to force meters on millions of families, potentially adding £200 to annual water costs
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MPs join calls for Equitable compensation [07/24/2008 01:17 PM]
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Pressue is growing on the government to compensate policyholders of Equitable Life with a powerful parliamentary group the latest to support the cause
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Brown rejects unions calls for 50% tax on rich [07/24/2008 01:17 PM]
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Gordon Brown will risk losing the support of union chiefs by snubbing their demands for huge tax increases for the rich
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Trader's collapse helps to force down crude oil price [07/24/2008 01:17 PM]
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The collapse of US oil trader SemGroup is said to have played a role in the dramatic decline in the price of crude oil over the past 10 days
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Second-home owners letting in tenants [07/24/2008 01:17 PM]
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Owners of second homes in the country could be forced to live there permanently or let them out all year to tenants
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Four in ten buyers pull out of house deals [07/24/2008 01:17 PM]
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Four out of ten homebuyers in some areas are pulling out after losing their nerve or failing to get a mortgage, the Bank of England has reported
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M&S cuts its plastic bag handout by 70m [07/24/2008 01:17 PM]
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A ban on free plastic bags by Marks & Spencer has led to an astonishing 80% cut in the number handed out
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Bank split three ways on interest rates [07/24/2008 01:17 PM]
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Rates look set to be held for some months to come as Bank of England minutes show that it was split three ways when rates were held this month
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Industry heading for recession, say bosses [07/24/2008 01:17 PM]
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Cost of credit card cash on the rise [07/24/2008 01:17 PM]
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Credit card providers have been hiking up their interest rates - especially for cash-strapped customers forced to withdraw money from ATMs
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Taxpayer could prop up mortgage market [07/24/2008 01:17 PM]
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The taxpayer could become responsible for billions of pounds of mortgages under radical proposals to restart the housing market
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Mortgage advisers fail borrower checks [07/24/2008 01:17 PM]
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An undercover investigation into mortgage advisers has shown up shocking incompetence, with many failing to carry out proper checks on borrowers' ability to repay loans
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It's a crying shame about Yell [07/24/2008 01:17 PM]
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UK Economy: Deficits can be good for you [07/24/2008 01:17 PM]
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Applegarth has some more explaining to do [07/24/2008 01:17 PM]
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The long list of shame at Equitable... [07/24/2008 01:17 PM]
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Hetherington: I saved for my daughter - what was the point [07/24/2008 01:17 PM]
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Building societies beat banks hands down [07/24/2008 01:17 PM]
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