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Banks in pledge to cut charges [06/01/2006 01:17 PM]
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The major banks are to reduce 'unfair' penalty charges for people who miss payments on their credit cards after a ruling by the OFT
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£2bn water profits but bills will rise [06/01/2006 01:17 PM]
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Water bills will have to rise as the country faces up to long-term shortages, consumers are warned today
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Market report: Thursday 12.15 [06/01/2006 01:17 PM]
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A potential stock overhang and dollar weakness continued to dog shares of online poker player PartyGaming
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Two win £1m Premium Bond prizes [06/01/2006 01:17 PM]
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A grandmother from Warwickshire and a married man from Cumbria have each scooped £1m prizes in the June Premium Bond draw
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T-Mobile props up service league [06/01/2006 01:17 PM]
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The mobile phone company came last in a survey published today of pre-pay and contract customers on quality of service. O2 came top
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Premiership wages pass their peak [06/01/2006 01:17 PM]
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Premiership football clubs have managed to rein in their wage bills for the first time in the league's history, figures showed today
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Kids' World Cup shirts 'are a rip-off' [06/01/2006 01:17 PM]
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Retailers are taking advantage of football fans by overpricing children's England World Cup shirts, according to consumer magazine Which?
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Abramovich looks to buy Corus share [06/01/2006 01:17 PM]
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Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich was today said to be in talks with Corus over buying a stake in the Anglo-Dutch steel firm
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Falconbridge rejects £7.8bn Xstrata bid [06/01/2006 01:17 PM]
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Canadian copper miner Falconbridge has rejected a C$16.1bn (£7.8bn) cash offer by Xstrata for the 80% of the company it does not own
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Man Group in good style at £697m [06/01/2006 01:17 PM]
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Man Group had a storming full year and a strong start to the new one as investors backed its contrary investment style in volatile markets
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nother £2bn tax credit bungle [06/01/2006 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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Standard Life members back float [06/01/2006
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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Talk of rise in rates slows homes boom [06/01/2006 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 [06/01/2006 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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SSE price 'restraint' wins new custom [06/01/2006 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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Orange launches quadruple play [06/01/2006 01:17 PM]
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Orange is launching Europe's first 'quadruple play' telecoms offer, that will provide broadband, mobile, landline and TV services
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Unmarried couples to get new legal rights [06/01/2006 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 [06/01/2006 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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BBC chief sets sights on Google and AOL [06/01/2006 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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Northern Foods announces £200m sell-off [06/01/2006 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 [06/01/2006 01:17 PM]
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The level of mortgage debt in the UK is almost £1 trillion, according to figures from the Bank of England
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Lowering the proud Standard Life [06/01/2006
01:17 PM]
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Standard Life's recent record hardly fills me, as a very modest policyholder, with any confidence
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Even sex doesn't sell without ads [06/01/2006 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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