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Alliance & Leicester: Complain and you're out - Alliance & Leicester is kicking out customers who have complained about unfair bank charges and successfully reclaimed them. Google hints at China U-turn - Google admitted may have compromised its 'don't be evil' conscientious principles by helping Chinese government internet censorship



Alliance & Leicester: Complain and you're out  [06/07/2006 01:17 PM]
Alliance & Leicester is kicking out customers who have complained about unfair bank charges and successfully reclaimed them
Google hints at China U-turn  [06/07/2006 01:17 PM]
Google admitted it may have compromised its 'don't be evil' conscientious principles by helping Chinese government internet censorship
Market report: Wednesday 12.30  [06/07/2006 01:17 PM]
The banking sector was back in the spotlight today with dealers reporting unusually heavy turnover in takeover favourite Standard Chartered
Call for inquiry to halt BAA sale  [06/07/2006 01:17 PM]
The Government today faced calls to stop the Spanish takeover of Britain's major airports
Bank meets to consider inflation threat  [06/07/2006 01:17 PM]
Will the cost of borrowing stay at 4.5% at the two-day meeting which starts today?
Heineken man takes the reins at Morrisons  [06/07/2006 01:17 PM]
Sir Ken Morrison has been forced to take even more of a back seat at the troubled supermarkets chain ahead of his full retirement in 2008
Top manager cheats bank out of £21m  [06/07/2006 01:17 PM]
A bank boss carried out one of Britain's biggest frauds as his unsuspecting employers, Royal Bank of Scotland, showered him with honours
May getaway boosts easyJet  [06/07/2006 01:17 PM]
Budget airline easyJet flew almost 3m passengers in May as its new routes helped it follow up a strong Easter performance
Abbey's zombie fund snapped up  [06/07/2006 01:17 PM]
Zombie fund king Resolution Life has agreed to take over Abbey National's life business for £3.6bn
Energy costs put the bite on Cadbury's  [06/07/2006 01:17 PM]
Dairy Milk-to-chewing gum giant Cadbury Schweppes today admitted it will not hit its current-year profit-margin targets because of high energy costs
NeuTec bows to the Swiss at £305m  [06/07/2006 01:17 PM]
Swiss drugs giant Novartis today made an agreed 1050p-a-share takeover bid for NeuTec Pharma, valuing the British biotechnology firm at £305m
Carphone swamped by broadband flood  [06/07/2006 01:17 PM]
The Carphone Warehouse boss has admitted that demand for the group's free broadband service has far outstripped even his rosy outlook
BAA takeover up in air  [06/07/2006 01:17 PM]
The extraordinary £15bn bid battle for BAA was thrown into confusion today after Spanish raider Ferrovial appeared to land the airports operator
Rail firm bans daytrippers' travel  [06/07/2006 01:17 PM]
A rail firm has shocked passengers by targeting daytrippers and forcing people travelling between 4.30pm and 7pm to buy full fare tickets
Water firms and Government slammed  [06/07/2006 01:17 PM]
A House of Lords report has delivered a devastating critique of water companies' record on charges, leaks and disruption of supplies
£20,000 cost of shares scam  [06/07/2006 01:17 PM]
Victims of 'boiler rooms' - illegal overseas operations that sell worthless shares - typically lose £20,000
World Cup bails out the High Street  [06/07/2006 01:17 PM]
World Cup fever saved May from being a total washout for retailers, according to the British Retail Consortium
The same old names in shares offer  [06/07/2006 01:17 PM]
Ace investigator Tony Hetherington takes a closer look at broker Bishop & Perkins, and their offer of Sensitron shares
My, but what big teeth you have Gordon  [06/07/2006 01:17 PM]
Gordon Brown is right to clampd down on tax evasion but his recent tactics risk alienating corporate Britain
At last - benefits in sight at Standard Life  [06/07/2006 01:17 PM]
Standard Life's demutualisation will provide the ideal backdrop for policyholders to benefit, something they haven't done for many a year