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BT plans Total Broadband attack - BT has fired latest salvo battle for broadband market by relaunching its packages with extra services bundled 'Worthless' insurance costs £5bn - Banks are bumping up cost of loans by nearly third by selling expensive, often worthless, payment protection insurance customers



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