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Shares dive on inflation surge [06/13/2006 01:17 PM]
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Shares were reeling again today as investor jitters about inflation and rising interest rates intensified
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A tax to remove your rubbish [06/13/2006 01:17 PM]
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Families who create the most household rubbish will pay extra to have it removed under proposals being considered by the Government
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Market report: Tuesday 12.30 [06/13/2006 01:17 PM]
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Jilted within sight of the altar was the fate facing mortgage lender Alliance & Leicester today in a move that wiped almost £300m off its stock value
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'Trouble ahead', warns King [06/13/2006 01:17 PM]
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Investors were last night given a major warning by Britain's most powerful banker that stock markets could fall even further
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Asda faces 'devastating' strike [06/13/2006 01:17 PM]
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A bitter row over union recognition threatens to halt deliveries from the supermarket giant's nationwide network of depots
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Crackdown on holiday snatchers [06/13/2006 01:17 PM]
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Up to 2m workers will benefit from plans to stop employers forcing staff to take bank holidays as part of their annual leave
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Directories firm faces new curbs [06/13/2006 01:17 PM]
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Yellow Pages owner Yell faces the possibility of new price controls after a watchdog said the directories market was not working
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Reubens deal ends Olympic dispute [06/13/2006 01:17 PM]
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The damaging row over who should develop the £4bn Olympic City in Stratford has finally been settled
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Brown targets Islamic finance [06/13/2006 01:17 PM]
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The Chancellor is pledging Treasury backing for an effort to promote financial services aimed at Muslims in Britain
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First Choice a long haul winner [06/13/2006 01:17 PM]
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Travel agent First Choice's retreat from battle against low-cost airlines over cheap European holidays is paying off
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RBS to make record profits in 2006 [06/13/2006 01:17 PM]
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Royal Bank of Scotland, owner of NatWest, told investors today it is well on track to make record profits once again in 2006
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£1,000 fines for watching World Cup [06/13/2006 01:17 PM]
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Staff watching World Cup matches on office computers are facing a legal crackdown, if their employer doesn't have a TV licence
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House-price rise hit 11-month high [06/13/2006 01:17 PM]
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A surge in the number of homebuyers led house prices to rise at the fastest rate for almost a year during April
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Standard set to cut windfalls [06/13/2006 01:17 PM]
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Millions of policyholders at Standard Life could have their windfalls reduced when the mutual life assurer embarks on the biggest flotation of the year
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Barclays to boost High St presence [06/13/2006 01:17 PM]
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Banking giant Barclays is set to increase its number of high street branches in prime locations, a report said today
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EBay poised to unveil Skype links [06/13/2006 01:17 PM]
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Online auctioneer eBay is expected to encourage its sellers to embed links to internet phone service Skype into some of its auction pages
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Bidders circle homes builder [06/13/2006 01:17 PM]
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Retirement homes builder McCarthy & Stone is thought to have opened up the books to at least two private equity bidders
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Watchdog to mull Vodafone pay deals [06/13/2006 01:17 PM]
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The Association of British Insurers meets today amid reports that one of its members plans a rebellion at Vodafone's annual meeting
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Arcelor to tell Mittal to stump up more [06/13/2006 01:17 PM]
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Arcelor chief Guy Dollé is to press Lakshmi Mittal to raise his €22bn (£15.1bn) bid for the European steel giant
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Standard Life axes sales staff [06/13/2006 01:17 PM]
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The mutual insurance company has shocked staff by making more job cuts ahead of its £5.5bn summer flotation
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Shield the stock exchange [06/13/2006 01:17 PM]
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An overseas takeover does not only affect the future of the LSE itself, it could also have a major impact on the companies listed on the exchange
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