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Woolworths faces carve-up

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Woolworths faces carve-up - Britain's favourite bargain store chain Woolworths could be carved up if its Icelandic shareholder's plans come fruition EMI leaps at SpiralFrog - Music from Arctic Monkeys others will be available online for free following deal between EMI music service SpiralFrog



Woolworths faces carve-up  [09/06/2006 01:17 PM]
Britain's favourite bargain store chain Woolworths could be carved up if its Icelandic shareholder's plans come to fruition
EMI leaps at SpiralFrog  [09/06/2006 01:17 PM]
Music from Arctic Monkeys and others will be available online for free following a deal between EMI and music service SpiralFrog
Market report: Wednesday 12.00  [09/06/2006 01:17 PM]
Shares in the London Stock Exchange itself look set to go even higher after chairman Chris Gibson-Smith hung the 'for sale' sign up- SHARE TIPS: Financial Mail's Midas
Mortgages take up fifth of take-home pay  [09/06/2006 01:17 PM]
The average cost of mortgage repayments equated to 19% of take-home pay for the first time last month, a study showed today
Pensions bonanza for top bosses  [09/06/2006 01:17 PM]
Britain's leading bosses will receive gold-plated pensions worth up to 40 times more than those of their staff
Nissan announces jobs boost  [09/06/2006 01:17 PM]
Car giant Nissan is to create 200 jobs at its Wearside plant to produce its latest Qashqai model, which is due to go into production in December
Six dairies accused of price-fixing  [09/06/2006 01:17 PM]
Six dairies were today accused of working together to fix the price of fresh milk delivered to customers including schools and hotels
US oil firms hit massive find  [09/06/2006 01:17 PM]
A trio of US oil companies has tapped a petroleum pool deep beneath the Gulf of Mexico that could boost the nation's reserves by more than 50%
Strike off as bmibaby settles dispute  [09/06/2006 01:17 PM]
Strike action at Heathrow has been averted after low-cost airline bmibaby struck an eleventh hour pay deal with pilots' union Balpa
First fine for payment protection  [09/06/2006 01:17 PM]
A specialist mortgage lender has become the first company to be fined by the financial watchdog for mis-selling payment protection insurance
It's cheaper to rent than buy  [09/06/2006 01:17 PM]
House prices have risen so fast that it is now cheaper to rent a London home worth more than £750,000 than to buy it
Terror scare cost BA £40m  [09/06/2006 01:17 PM]
British Airways today said it cancelled 1,280 flights during last month's terror scare at a cost of £40m
Service sector slowest since Iraq invasion  [09/06/2006 01:17 PM]
Growth in Britain's huge service industry slowed last month, adding to expectations interest rates will not go up this week
Admiral holds premiums  [09/06/2006 01:17 PM]
Motor insurer Admiral reported a successful year and said it had no plans to follow Norwich Union and raise premiums
1,600 NHS jobs sold to Germans  [09/06/2006 01:17 PM]
Parcel delivery company DHL has been awarded a £1.6bn contract to supply hospitals and local surgeries
Poor pay most for energy  [09/06/2006 01:17 PM]
Consumer groups and charities are calling on energy companies to stop penalising poorer users who rely on prepayment meters- ADVICE: Should you switch?
Music sales boom at the checkout  [09/06/2006 01:17 PM]
More than a quarter of all music albums bought in Britain now pass through supermarket checkouts, figures reveal today
DSG's 2,000 new TechGuys  [09/06/2006 01:17 PM]
The owner of Currys electrical stores pledged to create 2,000 jobs today with the launch of a new service providing expert support to IT users
30-second guide to . . . retail sales  [09/06/2006 01:17 PM]
The Daily Mail City staff explain the significance of how much we spend in the nation's shops and supermarkets
Sarin backs Italian Stallion  [09/06/2006 01:17 PM]
The return of Vittorio Colao to Vodafone will come as a blessed relief to chief executive Arun Sarin
It just doesn't add up  [09/06/2006 01:17 PM]
By the end of the new school year, pitifully few children will know how to organise their money efficiently