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Flight tax to cause travel chaos

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Flight tax cause travel chaos - Millions of holidaymakers are likely face chaos at airports around Britain as airlines threaten stop passengers flying unless they pay new air tax Household inflation calculator goes live - The 'personal inflation calculator' from Office for National Statistics was launched today. Work out your inflation rate here



Flight tax to cause travel chaos  [01/15/2007 01:17 PM]
Millions of holidaymakers are likely to face chaos at airports around Britain as airlines threaten to stop passengers flying unless they pay a new air tax
Household inflation calculator goes live  [01/15/2007 01:17 PM]
The 'personal inflation calculator' from the Office for National Statistics was launched today. Work out your inflation rate here
Market report: Monday latest  [01/15/2007 01:17 PM]
13.00:Carillion cheered shareholders today with news that it is back on track with reduced debts and £16bn of orders
Staff vote for strike in BA pay dispute  [01/15/2007 01:17 PM]
Thousands of British Airways cabin crew have voted in support of strike action over pay and working conditions
Government promises free financial advice  [01/15/2007 01:17 PM]
Every adult in the UK will be entitled to free generic financial advice within five years, the Government announced today
Homes nudge £200,000 mark  [01/15/2007 01:17 PM]
Families hoping to buy the average home now face a bill of almost £200,000, with the official house price measure just £500 shy of the landmark figure
M&S's five-year eco-warrior plan  [01/15/2007 01:17 PM]
Marks & Spencer is to reinvent itself as an eco-warrior on the High Street, spending £200m over five years on what it called a deliberately ambitious eco-plan
Sky slashes broadband costs  [01/15/2007 01:17 PM]
BSkyB is upping the ante in the broadband price war amid concerns that growth among top-spending customers is stalling
Opec's threat to petrol prices  [01/15/2007 01:17 PM]
Drivers face higher petrol prices because of a planned cut in Opec's oil output led by Iran and Venezuela
Co-Op defends carbon scheme  [01/15/2007 01:17 PM]
The Co-operative Bank is sticking by a Ugandan carbon off-setting scheme criticised for paying locals poor wages and denying them access to vital resources
Homeowners with a £150,000 nest egg  [01/15/2007 01:17 PM]
Millions of the country's 18m homeowners live in property that is worth more than they are, unless they happen to be first-time buyers
Windfall blow for long-termers  [01/15/2007 01:17 PM]
Long-standing Norwich Union policyholders may receive smaller windfalls than more recent policyholders, if the £4bn with-profits surplus redistribution goes ahead
Police role in 'crash cash' sales  [01/15/2007 01:17 PM]
Police forces are acting as unofficial claims chasers, giving accident victims details of a legal helpline, which then sells on profitable injury cases to solicitors
A to Z of the Sunday newspapers  [01/15/2007 01:17 PM]
Our summary of what the business papers are reporting from the financial world this Sunday
Shake-up of injury claims  [01/15/2007 01:17 PM]
Insurers could save millions of pounds thanks to a Government report advocating a streamlining of the personal injury claims system
Plane tax row takes off  [01/15/2007 01:17 PM]
Airlines have ordered passengers to pay extra duty or miss flights. The carriers have blamed the Government but angry passengers say airlines should pay
ICICI savings rate up to 5.65%  [01/15/2007 01:17 PM]
The post-rate rise savings war has fired up, with ICICI bank raising the rate on its online HiSave account to 5.65% from 5.45% >>Beat the rate rise|
Halifax raises mortgage rate  [01/15/2007 01:17 PM]
Britains biggest mortgage lender Halifax has raised its mortgage rate following the Bank of Englands shock interest rate rise
Sky faces probe into £940m ITV share raid  [01/15/2007 01:17 PM]
BSkyB is to be formally investigated over its £940m raid on ITV shares in November
Remortgage to beat the rise  [01/15/2007 01:17 PM]
Thousands of people will be looking to remortgage as a result of the bank rate rise. This is Money mortgage expert Simon Lambert picks the best deals
Investing guru Dr Bill Mott returns  [01/15/2007 01:17 PM]
Few individuals make a successful long-term career from fund management, says personal finance editor Jeff Prestridge and one of them - legend Bill Mott - has returned at Psigma Asset Management
Conman's tax avoidance scam  [01/15/2007 01:17 PM]
Financial Mails ace investigator Tony Hetherington delves into a convicted conman pushing a tax avoidance scheme
Final months needing some gloss  [01/15/2007 01:17 PM]
It's usually best for top execs to go sooner rather than later - and Lord Browne needs to put some gloss on the past 18 months
Pushmi-pullyu inflation tips rate rise  [01/15/2007 01:17 PM]
As higher petrol and university bills push up inflation, the interest rate rises. So life becomes more expensive all round says Financial Mail's economics editor