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British Gas bills go up yet again [07/27/2006 01:17 PM]
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10m customers were reeling from another rise in energy bills today after British Gas said it would hike prices by as much as 12.4%
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BA slashes 2m seat prices [07/27/2006 01:17 PM]
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The airline is selling flights online to 26 European destinations from today for as little as £29
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Market report: Thursday 12.30 [07/27/2006 01:17 PM]
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The popping of champagne corks could be heard at the offices of Slough Estates today as its shares nudged towards their record high
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Credit card users cut debt [07/27/2006 01:17 PM]
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Despite bouyant sales on the High Street, credit card users repaid more than they borrowed last month
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£1.6m profit an hour for oil giant [07/27/2006 01:17 PM]
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Royal Dutch Shell announced today that it profits are up 36% to £3.4bn, which it put down to good performance and not just soaring oil prices
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BT still leads race for new-wave customers [07/27/2006 01:17 PM]
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BT is still winning the largest share of the consumer broadband market despite the latest challenges from TalkTalk and BSkyB
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Carphone 'will cut broadband queues' [07/27/2006 01:17 PM]
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Carphone Warehouse chief Charles Dunstone has pledged to cut the queues for his free broadband service from TalkTalk to just three weeks
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Mortgage mis-selling to cost B&B [07/27/2006 01:17 PM]
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Bradford & Bingley's first-half profit have been seriously hit by compensation pay-outs for misselling endowment mortgages
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Sales of fans scorching ahead at B&Q [07/27/2006 01:17 PM]
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The hot weather has triggered a 40% leap in sales of portable air-conditioning units and fans at B&Q stores this summer
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EMI and Warner call off merger [07/27/2006 01:17 PM]
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EMI, the music company that boasts Robbie Williams, is expected to abandon plans for a $4.6bn (£2.5bn) merger Warner Music
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O2 the leader as Link deal is completed [07/27/2006 01:17 PM]
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O2 is to reinforce its position as the UK's fastest-growing network once it completes its £30m takeover of the Link phone shops
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Rightmove blow for seller packs [07/27/2006 01:17 PM]
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Britain's largest property website today drove another nail into the coffin of the Government's plan for home information packs
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New bureau to takle insurance fraud [07/27/2006 01:17 PM]
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The insurance industry launched a new investigation bureau today to clamp down on organised fraud
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Glaxo claims bird-flu breakthrough [07/27/2006 01:17 PM]
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Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline claims to have created the most effective vaccine so far against the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu
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Thames Water 'top UK polluter' [07/27/2006 01:17 PM]
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Thames Water has paid out more in fines for causing pollution than any other UK company, an Environment Agency report said today
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Upbeat Reuters rolls out a bigger dividend [07/27/2006 01:17 PM]
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Media giant Reuters cheered the market today as it raised its growth forecasts for the year and increased the half-year dividend
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Amazon profits slump 58% [07/27/2006 01:17 PM]
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Online shopping company Amazon said earnings plunged nearly 58% as it invested in new technologies and its toy business
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Sixty not out is a short innings [07/27/2006 01:17 PM]
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Another successful chief executive of a major British company will soon to fall foul of pressure to retire at 60
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Dogs open lead over FTSE [07/27/2006 01:17 PM]
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The Mail on Sunday Midas updates readers on its Dogs fund and how it is starting to outperform the market
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