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Persimmon enjoys housing boom - Britain's largest housebuilder is cranking up its building programme as hungry buyers snap up property M&S ethical campaign hailed 'best ever' - Marks & Spencer's ethical campaign 'Look behind label' has been most successful has ever run, according City brokerage firm



Persimmon enjoys housing boom  [08/22/2006 01:17 PM]
Britain's largest housebuilder is cranking up its building programme as hungry buyers snap up property
M&S ethical campaign hailed 'best ever'  [08/22/2006 01:17 PM]
Marks & Spencer's ethical campaign 'Look behind the label' has been the most successful it has ever run, according to a City brokerage firm
Market report: Tuesday 12.30  [08/22/2006 01:17 PM]
Share prices went into reverse amid talk that the marketplace had been hit by a massive computerised sell programme- Yesterday's trading
Best paid jobs revealed  [08/22/2006 01:17 PM]
Feature:Average earnings across all jobs were £28,210 in 2005, according to official figures, with doctors leading the risers. So where does your job rank?
Coffee hits a new high in London  [08/22/2006 01:17 PM]
The cost of a morning coffee could increase as a result of shortages on the world market as supply fears sent prices soaring
Bookies cash in on Test farce  [08/22/2006 01:17 PM]
Spread betters lose a packet as cricket ball-tampering row hands victory to unfancied England team
£500m UK property grab by Irish family  [08/22/2006 01:17 PM]
Three secretive Irish brothers and their sister are leading a £500m assault on the UK property market
Vodafone's new line in bundling  [08/22/2006 01:17 PM]
Mobile phones giant Vodafone is to launch a landmark move in bundling telephony and technology services in Germany in October
Top ten excuses for low pay  [08/22/2006 01:17 PM]
'He's a waste of space' is just one justification given by employers to investigators cracking down pay cheats
Royal Mail postage row  [08/22/2006 01:17 PM]
Business leaders and consumers have launched an attack on the new postage prices coming into force today
House prices slip back £3,400  [08/22/2006 01:17 PM]
The property mini-boom is running out of steam and sellers are cutting their asking prices, says a survey of estate agents
Banks target Polish workers  [08/22/2006 01:17 PM]
They have been credited with keeping mortgage costs down and rescuing Britain's plumbing. Now financial life is set to become a little easier for Poles in the UK
Inheritance tax here to stay, says Brown  [08/22/2006 01:17 PM]
The Chancellor has reacted angrily to a Blair ally's public challenge to scrap the unpopular 'penalty on hard work, thrift and enterprise'
Middle class inflation at 10%  [08/22/2006 01:17 PM]
Living costs for the middle classes are rising at more than four times the official rate of inflation, an economist warned yesterday
Going bust, the wannabe WAGs  [08/22/2006 01:17 PM]
Women who yearn for the life of a footballer's wife are causing a surge in female bankruptcies
Biggest City bonuses ever  [08/22/2006 01:17 PM]
City staff are to share in a record £21bn of bonuses, with new research revealing who is making the money| Ideas on making money
It's good to talk  [08/22/2006 01:17 PM]
Following reports of two debt-related suicides, the Samaritans has urged people not to keep financial worries to themselves
The solar salesmen in hot water  [08/22/2006 01:17 PM]
We are told solar panels will cut our energy bills and help save the planet. But the complaints are already starting to roll in
Browne must truly go green  [08/22/2006 01:17 PM]
Lord Browne needs to recognise that BP must gold-plate its environmental and safety reputation
Changes to This is Money  [08/22/2006 01:17 PM]
We are constantly striving to make This is Money better, improving our campaigning journalism, our news, our advice and the ease with which you can find all of that. See how we've changed the News section
McAlpine riding high on outsourcing  [08/22/2006 01:17 PM]
Midas looks at Alfred McAlpine - a company that can boast it has won £1bn of new business in just six months
A paradise mystery and dirty deeds  [08/22/2006 01:17 PM]
Ace investigator Tony Hetherington reports on a strange broker registered in St Lucia in the Caribbean

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