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Five win Premium Bond £1m - Five Premium Bond holders - four of them women - became millionaires today biggest-ever giveaway by Ernie £1.35-a-mile road toll proposed - Pay-as-you-drive road charges of up £1.35 mile became inevitable today as they won backing of Gordon Brown's transport guru.



Five win Premium Bond £1m  [12/01/2006 01:17 PM]
Five Premium Bond holders - four of them women - became millionaires today in the biggest-ever giveaway by Ernie
£1.35-a-mile road toll proposed  [12/01/2006 01:17 PM]
Pay-as-you-drive road charges of up to £1.35 a mile became inevitable today as they won the backing of Gordon Brown's transport guru.
Market report: Friday latest  [12/01/2006 01:17 PM]
10.30:Siberian oil producer Imperial Energy revealed it will quit Aim for the main market next yearADVICE: The cheapest way to buy shares
Flat fees for unlimited mobile calls  [12/01/2006 01:17 PM]
Mobile phone bills will be based on a flat rate monthly charge within a matter of years, Vodafone chief executive Arun Sarin has predicted
Way out of the property crisis  [12/01/2006 01:17 PM]
Comment:Despite prices rising in the capital by 10% in a year, government can do more to resolve the chronic housing shortage
Buy-to-let prisons on the way  [12/01/2006 01:17 PM]
John Reid is to beg the public to buy shares in new prisons after failing to secure funding from the Treasury
Millionaire show makes Carrott £17m  [12/01/2006 01:17 PM]
Comedian Jasper Carrott today emerged as one of the biggest winners of Who Wants To be a Millionaire? as he sold his stake in the business in a £112m deal.
Pension rescue fund pays out  [12/01/2006 01:17 PM]
A small band of pensioners today became the first to receive payments direct from the fund set up to rescue failed company schemes
Bank governor: Families face debt crisis  [12/01/2006 01:17 PM]
Rising debts are causing 'serious' problems for families but are not yet weighing on economic growth, says the Bank of England10 steps to get out of debt
Royal Mail's 'first class' service  [12/01/2006 01:17 PM]
Doubts were raised last night about figures published by Royal Mail showing a record-breaking performance delivering first-class post
Warning on goats for Christmas  [12/01/2006 01:17 PM]
Critics claim that buying a goat, cow or half a dozen chickens through schemes run by Oxfam, Christian Aid and others do more harm than good
£1.2m fund to tackle loan sharks  [12/01/2006 01:17 PM]
Moves to crack down on loan sharks will be stepped up today with the creation of specialist enforcement teams to combat illegal lending
China gold move puts heat on dollar  [12/01/2006 01:17 PM]
Sterling moved within touching distance of $2 today, as the US dollar continued to weaken against the pound, yen and euro
Housing market revs up  [12/01/2006 01:17 PM]
House prices jumped by 1.4% in November, nearly twice the pace in October, pushing up the rate of increase to its highest for nearly two years
Pound hits 14-year dollar high  [12/01/2006 01:17 PM]
The pound soared today to its highest levels against the dollar since Black Wednesday in 1992, when Britain was forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism
£175bn 'cost of long-life pensions'  [12/01/2006 01:17 PM]
The shortfall in Britain's company pension funds could be £175bn larger than official estimates as people live longer, it is claimed
Battersea Power Station sold for £400m  [12/01/2006 01:17 PM]
Battersea Power Station, the derelict Grade II-listed London landmark, has been sold to Irish developers for £400m in a deal announced today
Britain leads revolution in downloading  [12/01/2006 01:17 PM]
Britons are the download leaders of Europe, spending more on music online than anywhere else
ING Bank in 'Kumars' insult row  [12/01/2006 01:17 PM]
An Indian City highflier who claims she and a colleague were branded The Kumars At No 42 is demanding more than £100,000 compensation
First drive-through bank on the way  [12/01/2006 01:17 PM]
Britains first drive-through bank could be open within six months, it emerged yesterday
Farepak relief details revealed  [12/01/2006 01:17 PM]
The organisers of the Farepak Response Fund have announced details of how the goodwill money collected over the past month will be distributed
Poor credit borrowers 'misled'  [12/01/2006 01:17 PM]
Mortgage brokers specialising in advice for those unable to get mainstream homeloans have been misleading customers with inaccurate information
State pension age raised to 68  [12/01/2006 01:17 PM]
A new retirement age of 68 and the re-linking of state pensions to earnings are the key points of the new Pensions Bill unveiled today
Beware Murdoch machine  [12/01/2006 01:17 PM]
Attacking British broadcasting, regulators and No.10 is not always the best way to get what you want. But for James Murdoch, the best form of defence is attack.
30 Second guide to Doorstep Lending  [12/01/2006 01:17 PM]
The Daily Mail's City team look at the sharp suited lenders that are currently the subject of Government scurtiny.
Expert small-cap share tips  [12/01/2006 01:17 PM]
Our small caps experts reveal the Aim stocks that are set to fly or dive. This week: Debt Free Direct, Prime People and CustomVis
The City needs a light touch  [12/01/2006 01:17 PM]
The Financial Mail editor argues that the City works more effectively when its regulator adopts a light-touch approach
Midas: Hard to get NIS has solid future  [12/01/2006 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  [12/01/2006 01:17 PM]
The ace investigator looks into the case of a pensioner who has lost £12,000 to United Land Holdings