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Profits soar at leaky Thames [06/21/2006 01:17 PM]
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Thames Water announced a 31% increase in profits today but admitted it had missed its leak reduction target for a third successive year
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Dixons sells Link stores to O2 [06/21/2006 01:17 PM]
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Dixons group DSG International is to say goodbye to its weakest link by selling its mobile phone stores The Link to O2 for just £30m
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Market report: Wednesday 12.30 [06/21/2006 01:17 PM]
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Bourses across Europe were feeling the effects today after finding themselves on the receiving end of a US institutional investor sell-off
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Packaging challenge to stores [06/21/2006 01:17 PM]
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The Women's Institute has challenged supermarkets to cut down on the unnecessary food packaging pushing Britons closer to a 'rubbish' tax
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EasyPizza founder wins fight over name [06/21/2006 01:17 PM]
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The boss of a small takeaway pizza operation has won a a three-year legal battle with easyGroup founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou
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Interest rates likely to stay on hold [06/21/2006 01:17 PM]
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Details of this month's rate-setting MPC meeting signalled that interest rates are unlikely to change in the coming months
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Sainsbury's sales growth betters Tesco [06/21/2006 01:17 PM]
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Sainsbury's, the UK's third-largest supermarkets group, today delivered further proof of its continuing recovery
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HBOS on course for £5bn profits [06/21/2006 01:17 PM]
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Halifax/Bank of Scotland said today that it was on course to deliver annual profits of more than £5bn
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City watchdog's role under scrutiny [06/21/2006 01:17 PM]
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The Financial Services Authority is to be investigated by the National Audit Office to see if it is doing its job properly
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£8.49: What some OAPs live on per day [06/21/2006 01:17 PM]
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One in ten pensioners has to live on a paltry £8.49 a day after paying their utility bills, it emerged today
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Fidelity's Bolton successor shock [06/21/2006 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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Homeloans continue record run [06/21/2006 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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Buy-to-let investors face curbs [06/21/2006 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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'Worthless' insurance costs £5bn [06/21/2006 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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British Energy soars to £599m profit [06/21/2006 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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BT plans Total Broadband attack [06/21/2006 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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OFT to continue card fee battle [06/21/2006 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
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Insurer Old Mutual to shed 600 jobs [06/21/2006 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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Off the beaten track [06/21/2006 01:17 PM]
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Goodby Mr Bolton, hello Mr Nobody. What are we to think about the star Fidelity fund manager's successor, Jorma Korhonen?
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Brown's star falling to earth [06/21/2006 01:17 PM]
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Expectations are fading fast that the Chancellor will be in a position to deliver on his Budget forecasts
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Few friends but Misys has allure [06/21/2006 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 [06/21/2006 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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