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BT TV to screen top football [12/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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BT took on Sky today with a pledge to broadcast live peak-time Premiership games, as the centrepiece of its new 'down-the-phone-line' pay TV service
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£183m to be spent online today [12/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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If you're planning to do a spot of Christmas shopping on the internet after reading this, you won't be alone
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Market report: Monday latest [12/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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12.30:Drugs giant AstraZeneca came under the spotlight today as rival Pfizer of the US was forced to withdraw its new cholesterol treatment
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Car supermarkets 'a rip-off' [12/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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Rip-off car supermarkets are conning customers into paying over the odds for their vehicles, say fair trade watchdogs
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Farepak vouchers sent out [12/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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Victims of failed Christmas club Farepak will this week start to receive vouchers from the charity fund set up to help them
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Court fight over retirement law [12/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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New laws that allow employers to force staff to quit at 65 will be challenged in the High Court today
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Towns where families can't buy [12/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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Half of all potential first-time buyers have been priced out of the property market by the housing boom, research revealed yesterday
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Quarter of Brits will be dollar millionaires [12/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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A quarter of all households in the UK will be dollar millionaires within a decade, it was claimed today
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Website warns kids on premium-rate calls [12/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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A service to make children more savvy about calling premium rate telephone lines is officially launched today
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Inflation 'four times' official rate [12/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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The real inflation rate is up to four times as high as the official level, researchers claim - with escalating household bills and petrol prices hurting families
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Wholesale gas prices down by 40% [12/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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Wholesale gas prices have fallen by 40% since March, prompting a consumer watchdog to call for an inquiry into the high cost of household gas
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What the Pre-Budget Report ought to say [12/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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Monday view:As Gordon Brown prepares what could be his last Pre-Budget Report Shadow Chancellor George Osborne paints a picture of the UK economy under the Tories
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EMI talks over 300p-plus takeover [12/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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EMI, home to The Beatles and Robbie Williams, could be sold to private equity firm Permira for more than 300p a share, valuing the group at about £2.4bn
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House details sold in secret [12/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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Estate agents are secretly passing on details of million of homes to council tax inspectors under a deal with property website Rightmove.co.uk
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A to Z of the Sunday newspapers [12/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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Our summary of what the business papers are reporting from the financial world this Sunday
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FSA's eyes on savings clubs [12/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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The FSA expects to produce a blueprint by the end of next month for regulating Christmas savings clubs after the collapse of Farepak
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Save in the US - not online from the UK [12/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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For those unable to enjoy a US shopping spree, is there a way in this internet-connected world to take advantage of the plunging dollar?
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Brown 'is damaging the economy' [12/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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A pressure group says Gordon Brown's tax and spending policies will be bad for Britain in the long term
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Probe 'no threat' to £7bn jet deal [12/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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A long-running inquiry into bribery allegations over a £76bn arms deal with Saudi Arabia is expected to last at least another two years,
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Travellers should pay £250 carbon tax [12/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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Long-haul air travellers should be forced to pay up to £250 on top of their fares to help cover the cost of pollution, says Sir Rod Eddington
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Is the $2 pound a good thing? [12/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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As the Bank of England meets this week to discuss borrowing costs, the strength of the pound has lengthened the odds on another rise in interest rates
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Sales can wait, say High Street giants [12/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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Shoppers' hopes that the High Street giants will launch a glut of full-blown sales in the run-up to Christmas have been dashed
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Five win Premium Bond £1m [12/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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Five Premium Bond holders - four of them women - became millionaires today in the biggest-ever giveaway by Ernie
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Insurer wipes carbon footprint [12/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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insurance giant Royal & Sun Alliance today claimed to be the first carbon-neutral insurer in the country, having slashed its carbon emissions
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£1.35-a-mile road toll proposed [12/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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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.
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Nationwide U-turn a blunder too far [12/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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After spending millions explaining how it treats new and existing customers the same, Nationwide's decision to favour new customers is hugely embarrassing
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Take note... this is a sticky business [12/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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The ace investigator takes a closer look at an American-based scheme that claims to offer help with Government Assistance Programmes
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Keep dramas on screen, not the boardroom [12/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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In the ensuing euphoria over Michael Grade's appointment to ITV, shareholders are absolutely right not to lose sight of conventional corporate governance standards
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Midas: Reits are still looking good [12/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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This week the Financial Mail stockpicker takes a look at how the change of tax status of property companies will affect share prices in the sector
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A robust bequest from Brown [12/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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We may never know when or why Brown came down against abolishing the pound. The fact that he did may well be his most enduring legacy
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