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Life members back float [05/31/2006
01:17 PM]
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Standard Life members agreed today to end 80 years as a mutually-owned company in a historic vote, with 98% in favour of demutualisation
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Another £2bn tax credit bungle [05/31/2006 01:17 PM]
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More than £2bn of tax credits have been overpaid for the second year running by bungling Government departments
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Market report: Wednesday 13.00 [05/31/2006 01:17 PM]
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Those City investors brave enough to test the water today were treated to yet another white-knuckle ride
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Talk of rise in rates slows homes boom [05/31/2006 01:17 PM]
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Talk of rising interest rates is putting the brakes on the recent mini-boom in the housing market, according to Britain's biggest building society
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BT to challenge Sky with TV box [05/31/2006 01:17 PM]
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BT is set to take on Sky with a new home TV service, as it revealed today that it has secured Premiership football rights and other content deals
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BBC chief sets sights on Google and AOL [05/31/2006 01:17 PM]
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The BBC should try to take on internet giants Google and AOL, the corporation's director general has claimed
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SSE price 'restraint' wins new custom [05/31/2006 01:17 PM]
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A major supplier of energy in the UK said today its 'restraint' on power prices had been rewarded with 600,000 new customers in the past year
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Unmarried couples to get new legal rights [05/31/2006 01:17 PM]
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Unmarried couples could win the right to a share of each other's wealth in the event of a break-up
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EBay 'avenger' backs down [05/31/2006 01:17 PM]
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The 'eBay avenger' who set up an embarrassing website about a student who sold him a faulty laptop last night offered to take it down
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Ottakar's board accepts HMV bid [05/31/2006 01:17 PM]
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Waterstone's owner HMV today won the backing of its rival Ottakar's board with a bid that came in below the struggling chain's share price last night
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Northern Foods announces £200m sell-off [05/31/2006 01:17 PM]
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M&S's biggest ready meals supplier, Northern Foods, has slashed its dividend and launched a major disposal programme after a year of losses
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Mortgage debt near £1 trillion [05/31/2006 01:17 PM]
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The level of mortgage debt in the UK has nearly reached £1 trillion, according to figures from the Bank of England
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Spanish launch 'knockout' BAA bid [05/31/2006 01:17 PM]
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Spanish hostile raider Ferrovial today delivered what it hopes will be a knockout bid of £9.73bn for UK airports operator BAA
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Massive losses at Vodafone [05/31/2006 01:17 PM]
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Vodafone, the world's biggest mobile phone company, today announced hundreds of job cuts and the largest loss in UK corporate history
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Watchdog critical of illness cover [05/31/2006 01:17 PM]
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Undercover checks made by the FSA show firms selling critical illness cover need to do more to help customers understand what they are buying
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Fears of supercasino legal tangle [05/31/2006 01:17 PM]
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The Government's process of choosing the one location in the UK for a Las Vegas-style supercasino could be heading for a vast legal quagmire
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58% to work on as pensioners [05/31/2006 01:17 PM]
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Many older people are planning to keep working beyond the state pension age because they lack sufficient retirement funds
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Net touts to be kicked out [05/31/2006 01:17 PM]
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The biggest crackdown yet on UK internet football ticket touts is being planned for the start of next season
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Standard Life buoyant ahead of vote [05/31/2006
01:17 PM]
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Standard Life unveiled a boost ahead of tomorrow's vote on demutualisation by revealing a rise in profits
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Brussels to set VAT in fraud move [05/31/2006 01:17 PM]
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Britain could lose the right to set its own rate of VAT under radical European Union plans, aimed at combating international fraud
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Pensions shake-up is more spin [05/31/2006 01:17 PM]
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Thursday's landmark White Paper was heralded in Government circles, but it's more spin than fact says the Financial Mail personal finance editor
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Even sex doesn't sell without ads [05/31/2006 01:17 PM]
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Tony Hetherington looks at a website get-rich-quick scheme, car hire deposit sneakiness and insurance issues
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M&S revival deserves support [05/31/2006 01:17 PM]
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When two nightdresses cost £36 ten years ago, Financial Mail editor Lisa Buckingham knew M&S was in trouble but now it's back to its best
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