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BT plans Total Broadband attack - UK packages [06/20/2006 01:17 PM]
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BT has fired the latest salvo in the battle for the broadband market by relaunching its packages with extra services bundled in
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'Worthless' insurance costs £5bn [06/20/2006 01:17 PM]
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Banks are bumping up the cost of their loans by nearly a third by selling expensive, and often worthless, payment protection insurance to customers
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Market report: Tuesday 13.00 [06/20/2006 01:17 PM]
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The champagne corks were popping at the Bishopsgate offices of reinsurance broker Benfield today
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Homeloans continue record run [06/20/2006 01:17 PM]
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The strongest May mortgage lending since records began saw £28.7bn worth of homeloans advanced as consumer confidence surged
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Fidelity's Bolton successor shock [06/20/2006 01:17 PM]
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Fidelity has stunned investors by thrusting an unknown into one of the most high profile positions in the fund management industry
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Buy-to-let investors face curbs [06/20/2006 01:17 PM]
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Buy-to-let investors could face a clampdown after being accused of pricing local families out of the housing market
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British Energy soars to £599m profit [06/20/2006 01:17 PM]
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British Energy, the country's biggest electricity producer, turned losses last year of £303m into a soaraway pre-tax profit of £599m
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OFT to continue card fee battle [06/20/2006 01:17 PM]
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The OFT still plans to clamp down on MasterCard and Visa transaction charges, despite having a key ruling overturned by the appeal courts
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Insurer Old Mutual to shed 600 jobs [06/20/2006 01:17 PM]
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insurance company Old Mutual announced plans today to cut up to 600 UK jobs over the next three years following its takeover of Skandia
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Emap sells French business to Italians [06/20/2006 01:17 PM]
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Media group Emap said today it has sold its struggling French division to the Italian publisher of glossy magazine Grazia for £380m
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Costa Coffee moves to China [06/20/2006 01:17 PM]
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Whitbread has revealed ambitious plans in China and said the sale of Beefeater and Brewers Fayre restaurants was attracting good interest
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Nokia and Siemens hook up [06/20/2006 01:17 PM]
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Mobile phones giant Nokia has agreed with Germany's Siemens to combine their telephone equipment arms in a deal worth about £17bn
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South sees property mini-boom [06/20/2006 01:17 PM]
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House prices in the West Midlands have suffered a knock in the past month, despite a mini-boom in southern regions, figures showed today
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Royal & SunAlliance to cut 1500 jobs [06/20/2006 01:17 PM]
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insurance group Royal & SunAlliance plans to axe 1,550 jobs worldwide - more than 1,000 of them in Britain
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DSG set to sell Link stores to O2 [06/20/2006 01:17 PM]
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Britain's biggest electrical retailer is on the verge of selling The Link chain of High Street stores to mobile phone group O2, a report claims
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CBI downplays inflation threat [06/20/2006 01:17 PM]
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The CBI has called for calm amid fears of higher inflation, insisting the Bank of England can meet its targets without raising interest rates
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Brits are biggest online victims [06/20/2006 01:17 PM]
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Internet shoppers in the UK are Europe's biggest victims of foreign retailers who fail to deliver goods they have ordered
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Majestic revels in fine wine sales boom [06/20/2006 01:17 PM]
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Warehouse chain Majestic Wine was today toasting a profitable year boosted by a 30% increase in the sale of fine wines
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Few friends but Misys has allure [06/20/2006 01:17 PM]
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Financial Mail's top stock-picker turns an eye to software group Misys and, in the light of the ABP saga, Forth Ports
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A chancy name to have in Wales [06/20/2006 01:17 PM]
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This week Financial Mail's ace investigator he looks at a phantom debt and some shoddy practice from Expedia and a van hire firm
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That's enough stupidity in the sunshine [06/20/2006 01:17 PM]
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Borrowers with N&P standard variable loans should make it their mission to move to a better lender as soon as possible
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Unlikely hero emerges in pensions battle [06/20/2006 01:17 PM]
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BAE has set a standard whereby the miserable fallout of the pensions crisis can be overcome
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