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Standard set cut windfalls - Millions of policyholders at Standard Life could have windfalls reduced when mutual life assurer embarks biggest flotation of year £1,000 fines for watching World Cup - Staff watching World Cup matches office computers are facing legal crackdown, if employer doesn't have TV licence



Standard set to cut windfalls  [06/12/2006 01:17 PM]
Millions of policyholders at Standard Life could have their windfalls reduced when the mutual life assurer embarks on the biggest flotation of the year
£1,000 fines for watching World Cup  [06/12/2006 01:17 PM]
Staff watching World Cup matches on office computers are facing a legal crackdown, if their employer doesn't have a TV licence
Market report: Monday 12.30  [06/12/2006 01:17 PM]
Smith & Nephew was one of the bigger blue-chip risers for the second trading session in a row today, amid mounting bid speculation
House-price rise hit 11-month high  [06/12/2006 01:17 PM]
A surge in the number of homebuyers led house prices to rise at the fastest rate for almost a year during April
Barclays to boost High St presence  [06/12/2006 01:17 PM]
Banking giant Barclays is set to increase its number of high street branches in prime locations, a report said today
UK rules to stay if LSE finds US buyer  [06/12/2006 01:17 PM]
A US takeover of the London Stock Exchange would not force strict US regulations on companies and broking firms listing and working on it
Bidders circle homes builder  [06/12/2006 01:17 PM]
Retirement homes builder McCarthy & Stone is thought to have opened up the books to at least two private equity bidders
Watchdog to mull Vodafone pay deals  [06/12/2006 01:17 PM]
The Association of British Insurers meets today amid reports that one of its members plans a rebellion at Vodafone's annual meeting
£1bn cuts threat to defence industry  [06/12/2006 01:17 PM]
The defence industry is facing up to the prospect of the first Government spending cuts since Labour came to power 10 years ago
A&L's bad debts on the rise  [06/12/2006 01:17 PM]
A&L today told investors it has delivered 'strong franchise growth' in the first three months of its financial year
Arcelor to tell Mittal to stump up more  [06/12/2006 01:17 PM]
Arcelor chief Guy Dollé is to press Lakshmi Mittal to raise his €22bn (£15.1bn) bid for the European steel giant
Standard Life axes sales staff  [06/12/2006 01:17 PM]
The mutual insurance company has shocked staff by making more job cuts ahead of its £5.5bn summer flotation
Linpac poised for £1bn sale  [06/12/2006 01:17 PM]
Fierce bidding is expected to take place for the company that supplies packaging to McDonald's and Harley-Davidson
Energy imports continue to soar  [06/12/2006 01:17 PM]
Britain's growing dependence on imported energy will be in the spotlight as figures reveal how our oil and gas surplus was wiped out in two years
£2.3bn secret talks for reborn Ratners  [06/12/2006 01:17 PM]
Signet, the world's biggest jeweller, is poised for a tie-up with US-rival Zale after seizing top spot in America
Jobless total approaches 1m  [06/12/2006 01:17 PM]
A string of high-profile job losses has put the spotlight back on unemployment as the Government's big economic achievement begins to unravel
A to Z of the Sunday newspapers  [06/12/2006 01:17 PM]
Here is This is Money's round-up of some of the bigger stories from the Sunday finance and business pages
Pessimism yields value at Wolseley  [06/12/2006 01:17 PM]
The Financial Mail's top stockpicker believes the sell-off at the world's biggest plumbing supplier has been overstated and there are bargains to be had
Convicted conman with a licence to trade  [06/12/2006 01:17 PM]
The ace investigator takes a closer look at Network Debt Recovery and the part played by the bumbling Office of Fair Trading
Blair must surrender on pensions  [06/12/2006 01:17 PM]
It's time the Prime Minister stopped thinking about only his own plans for retirement
Who should protect the assets of sell-off Britain?  [06/12/2006 01:17 PM]
Insiders tell me they are gutted as yet another British 'institution' falls into foreign hands