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40% of families pay death tax - A record number of families face paying death duty according only study that measures property wealth other assets £1,000 jump cost of home - House price growth speeded up November thanks strong demand falling supply with cost of average home jumping £1,000



40% of families pay death tax  [11/27/2006 01:17 PM]
A record number of families face paying death duty according to the only study that measures property wealth and other assets
£1,000 jump in cost of a home  [11/27/2006 01:17 PM]
House price growth speeded up in November thanks to strong demand and falling supply with the cost of the average home jumping £1,000
Market report: Monday latest  [11/27/2006 01:17 PM]
12.30:A slew of merger activity lifted spirits this morning with First Choice and Wilson Bowden in talks and news on the Corus-Tata saga
Solar panel firm fined £40,000  [11/27/2006 01:17 PM]
Solar panel suppliers exposed by Financial Mail as the cause of scores of consumer complaints have been fined £40,000
Buy music from your radio  [11/27/2006 01:17 PM]
A service that allows you to buy and download music as you listen to it on your radio will be launched at the start of next year
CBI to vent tax anger on Labour  [11/27/2006 01:17 PM]
Gordon Brown is to face the wrath of business leaders who blame him for higher taxes and an ever more complex taxation system
Caudwell hands staff £5,000 cheques  [11/27/2006 01:17 PM]
Traditionally staff are presented with a gold watch as a reward for long service. Flamboyant billionaire John Caudwell was a little more generous
Network Rail announces first profit  [11/27/2006 01:17 PM]
The firm in charge of Britain's railway tracks and signals said today that it had made a profit for the first time in its history
National debt is £1.3 trillion  [11/27/2006 01:17 PM]
Researchers have claimed that the National Debt is three times higher than Government figures
Bye bye to the big box  [11/27/2006 01:17 PM]
The death knell was sounded last night for traditional television sets, with flat screens set to take over
A-Z of the Sunday newspapers  [11/27/2006 01:17 PM]
Here's our summary of what the business papers are reporting from the financial world this Sunday
Tesco's suffers India setback  [11/27/2006 01:17 PM]
Tesco today suffered a major defeat in its global expansion plans as Wal-Mart beat it in the race to open for business in India.
Farepak's helpline horror  [11/27/2006 01:17 PM]
Victims of the Farepak scandal have been paying 30p a minute to call a phoneline set up to help them
Branson steps up ITV war  [11/27/2006 01:17 PM]
Sir Richard Branson and cable giant NTL will table formal complaints to media and competition regulators BSkyB's ITV stake
The Interview: Lloyds' UK boss Terri Dial  [11/27/2006 01:17 PM]
Lloyds TSB's retail boss insists she will ignore campaigners' pleas to save branches the bank once pledged to keep open
Your Move boss in lending quiz  [11/27/2006 01:17 PM]
The boss of Your Move faces claims that brokers sold mortgages to help win lucrative surveying contracts
Is housing boom cooling off?  [11/27/2006 01:17 PM]
House price and mortgage lending figures due tomorrow will be scrutinised for signs that the property market is slowing
MPs square up to quiz show chiefs  [11/27/2006 01:17 PM]
TV quiz show bosses face a rough ride on Tuesday when the Media Select Committee investigates controversial phone-in
Alarm at 'quickie' bankruptcy  [11/27/2006 01:17 PM]
Debts of up to £15,000 could be written off after a year with no need to go to court under the 'quickie' bankruptcy
Police swoop in probe into shares fraud  [11/27/2006 01:17 PM]
The Serious Fraud Office has carried out a series of raids in Barcelona as it investigates an alleged international shares swindle
The City needs a light touch  [11/27/2006 01:17 PM]
The Financial Mail editor argues that the City works more effectively when its regulator adopts a light-touch approach
Making monkeys of us all  [11/27/2006 01:17 PM]
Economics editor Dan Atkinson says Gordon Brown's future of a 'creative industry' boom is just a myth
It's death by a thousand cuts at Lloyds TSB  [11/27/2006 01:17 PM]
The Financial Mail's personal finance editor, Jeff Prestridge, attacks Lloyds TSB for cutting too many branches
Midas: Hard to get NIS has solid future  [11/27/2006 01:17 PM]
This week the Financial Mail's top stock picker looks at Northgate Information Solutions, a company that has rejected several offers
Tony Hetherington investigates  [11/27/2006 01:17 PM]
The ace investigator looks into the case of a pensioner who has lost £12,000 to United Land Holdings