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Checkout finance is 'poor value' - Research out today shows that supermarket High Street financial products - loans, insurance bank accounts - are poor value. Ed Monk investigates Hundreds fall victim card scam - Credit card holders Sussex have been told check bills after police uncovered huge fraud scam- ADVICE: Protect yourself against card fraud



Checkout finance is 'poor value'  [11/02/2006 01:17 PM]
Research out today shows that supermarket and High Street financial products - loans, insurance and bank accounts - are poor value. Ed Monk investigates
Hundreds fall victim to card scam  [11/02/2006 01:17 PM]
Credit card holders in Sussex have been told to check their bills after police uncovered a huge fraud scam- ADVICE: Protect yourself against card fraud
Market report: Thursday latest  [11/02/2006 01:17 PM]
11.30:Vodafone has been quick to scotch reports that the Russian conglomerate Alpha Group is interested in buying a 20% stake in the mobile phones giant
House prices could fall by 2010  [11/02/2006 01:17 PM]
The good news for first-time buyers - but potential bad news for homeowners - is that house prices could be fall by 2010, a study claims today
Four million can't afford heating  [11/02/2006 01:17 PM]
Four million householders will struggle to pay their power bills this winter, the Government's energy regulator Ofgem has warned
Ryanair boss in four-letter tax blast  [11/02/2006 01:17 PM]
Michael O'Leary has delivered a four-letter attack on calls for green taxes on air travel to combat climate change
Fish & chip insurer gets battered  [11/02/2006 01:17 PM]
The High Court has ordered insurance broker Insureyourshop.com to pay £655,000 to 1,700 takeaway businesses after it sold invalid polices
Tories will scrap 'unfair' pension deal  [11/02/2006 01:17 PM]
Public sector workers' right to retire at 60 with a gold-plated pension will be scrapped if the Tories win the next election
Boost for tax-free saving  [11/02/2006 01:17 PM]
Changes to the rules governing tax-free Isa savings have been announced by the Treasury
Tesco reveals fashion onslaught  [11/02/2006 01:17 PM]
The supermarket giant is to invest millions in a clothing and home catalogue and online sales as part of a plan to take on the High Street fashion stores
Ryanair to offer bets and bingo  [11/02/2006 01:17 PM]
Passengers will be able to enjoy a flutter when they book online for flights on low-cost airline Ryanair under a deal announced today
The five-times salary mortgage  [11/02/2006 01:17 PM]
Britain's second-largest mortgage lender has dramatically increased the amount it is prepared to offer would-be homebuyers
Elderly struggle with 5% inflation  [11/02/2006 01:17 PM]
The cost of living for the elderly is rising faster than the official prices index on which pension increases are based
Divers' strike 'could cripple' oil and gas  [11/02/2006 01:17 PM]
A union chief warned today that a strike by North Sea divers could cripple the oil and gas industry- MARKET DATA: Oil and gas shares
House price growth cooling  [11/02/2006 01:17 PM]
The rate of house price growth cooled slightly last month as buyers and sellers' expectations for further price rises fell
Price cut sparks new online music war  [11/02/2006 01:17 PM]
An online music price war is set to break out - Universal Music, the world's largest music company, is to slash prices on its back catalogue
Britain the most costly place to run a car  [11/02/2006 01:17 PM]
Drivers in Britain spend more on running their cars than their European neighbours, a survey reveals today
YouTube launches copyright crackdown  [11/02/2006 01:17 PM]
Google is planning to delete thousands of clips in a copyright purge of YouTube. It also issued a warning to users of the hugely popular video website
Learning the Abbey habit  [11/02/2006 01:17 PM]
The voices calling the Abbey's five-times mortgage 'dangerous' are no doubt doing so from the comfort of being residential millionaires
Stealth Taxes  [11/02/2006 01:17 PM]
The Daily Mail City team explain, or try to, the murky and complex world of stealth taxes