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Pre-Budget Report - Live - Chancellor of Exchequer Gordon Brown has delivered his Pre-Budget Report speech House of Commons. See main points here Gas guzzler sales reverse - Sales of gas-guzzling 'Chelsea Tractors' have slumped as 4x4 owners feels effects of 'green' taxes from Government local councils



Pre-Budget Report - Live  [12/06/2006 01:17 PM]
Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown has delivered his Pre-Budget Report speech to the House of Commons. See the main points here
Gas guzzler sales in reverse  [12/06/2006 01:17 PM]
Sales of gas-guzzling 'Chelsea Tractors' have slumped as 4x4 owners feels the effects of 'green' taxes from Government and local councils
Market report: Wednesday latest  [12/06/2006 01:17 PM]
09.30:Venture capitalist CVC Capital Partners has finally decided to sever its connections with car accessories retailer Halfords- SPECIAL: Pre-Budget Report 2006
Giants could set up shop on country sites  [12/06/2006 01:17 PM]
Hundreds more out-of-town supermarkets and shopping centres could be built under the proposed planning shake-up
My £1m lottery shock  [12/06/2006 01:17 PM]
Salesman Steve Moseley thought he'd won a jackpot prize and told his boss to stick his job - then he discovered the awful truth
Customs warn on US shopping  [12/06/2006 01:17 PM]
Bargain-hunting Brits flocking to New York have been warned they will be met with a Customs crackdown when they fly back with their goods
NTL abandons ITV bid  [12/06/2006 01:17 PM]
Cable operator NTL has abandoned its £4.7bn bid for ITV. Its decision comes after Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB bought a 17.9% stake in the broadcaster
BA slams plans to raise Heathrow fees  [12/06/2006 01:17 PM]
Plans to increase airline charges at Heathrow by 50% into the next decade, forcing up air fares, have been shot down by British Airways as completely unjustified
Banned property firm took £10m  [12/06/2006 01:17 PM]
A property investment business exposed by Tony Hetherington took £10m from nearly 200 people who believed they could earn 30% interest on their cash
Chancellor wants fuel bills cut for elderly  [12/06/2006 01:17 PM]
Gordon Brown has been pressing electricity and gas companies to cut pensioners' fuel bills for this winter
HSBC sees debt-crisis worsening  [12/06/2006 01:17 PM]
Britain's biggest bank sees more consumers choosing to go bankrupt or apply for individual voluntary arrangements rather than pay off their debts
Homeowners hit by dual tax  [12/06/2006 01:17 PM]
Millions of homeowners face a 'double whammy' of taxes from the soaring property market, a report warns today
Piggy bank saving as you spend  [12/06/2006 01:17 PM]
Lloyds TSB customers will be given the opportunity to automatically save their small change in a 21st century piggy bank
Woolies warns of Xmas crisis  [12/06/2006 01:17 PM]
Woolworths today sent shockwaves through the retail world as it issued an emergency Christmas profit warning and said sales were down more than 6%
£50,000 plasma TV is world's biggest  [12/06/2006 01:17 PM]
Viewers can watch life-size action on a screen that is more than 8ft wide - but only Premiership footballers may be able to afford one
Your bill rises as gas prices fall  [12/06/2006 01:17 PM]
Special report:Families face yet higher power bills in the coming months even though the wholesale price of gas has plummeted. Find out why
BT TV to screen top football  [12/06/2006 01:17 PM]
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
Dubai closes in on Liverpool FC  [12/06/2006 01:17 PM]
Liverpool are on the verge of becoming the sixth Premiership club in foreign hands after a Dubai state firm confirmed they are in exclusive takeover talks
£183m to be spent online today  [12/06/2006 01:17 PM]
If you're planning to do a spot of Christmas shopping on the internet after reading this, you won't be alone
Car supermarkets 'a rip-off'  [12/06/2006 01:17 PM]
Rip-off car supermarkets are conning customers into paying over the odds for their vehicles, say fair trade watchdogs
Farepak vouchers sent out  [12/06/2006 01:17 PM]
Victims of failed Christmas club Farepak will this week start to receive vouchers from the charity fund set up to help them
Court fight over retirement law  [12/06/2006 01:17 PM]
New laws that allow employers to force staff to quit at 65 will be challenged in the High Court today
Towns where families can't buy  [12/06/2006 01:17 PM]
Half of all potential first-time buyers have been priced out of the property market by the housing boom, research revealed yesterday
Brown's growth dividend  [12/06/2006 01:17 PM]
The paper accompanying any Gordon Brown budget event grows exponentially. The Pre-Budget Report is so large that two special papers were released before the he takes to the Commons.
30 Second guide to Pre-Budget Report  [12/06/2006 01:17 PM]
The Daily Mail's City team explain why the financial world takes so much notice of the Chancellor's Autumn statement.
Take note... this is a sticky business  [12/06/2006 01:17 PM]
The ace investigator takes a closer look at an American-based scheme that claims to offer help with Government Assistance Programmes
Midas: Reits are still looking good  [12/06/2006 01:17 PM]
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
A robust bequest from Brown  [12/06/2006 01:17 PM]
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