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Revealed: Secret casino plan

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Revealed: Secret casino plan - Government plans for Las Vegas-style casinos were dealt blow with Tony Blair's casinos chief admitting they could lead an increase gambling addiction Insurers' £2bn storm bill - Insurers could face bill approaching £2 bn after violent storms that shook Britain last week



Revealed: Secret casino plan  [01/21/2007 01:17 PM]
Government plans for Las Vegas-style casinos were dealt a blow with Tony Blair's casinos chief admitting they could lead to an increase in gambling addiction
Insurers' £2bn storm bill  [01/21/2007 01:17 PM]
Insurers could face a bill approaching £2 bn after the violent storms that shook Britain last week
Market report: Friday close  [01/21/2007 01:17 PM]
17.00:India's Tata Steel is putting together the finances for a new knockout offer worth up to 600p a share for rival Corus
Royal Mail lose big business deals  [01/21/2007 01:17 PM]
Royal Mail has 'lost' 2.bn business letters - one in eight - to private competition in the past 12 months, Financial Mail can reveal
Nurse strike threat over pensions gap  [01/21/2007 01:17 PM]
Staff at the country's biggest nursing union have voted for strike action after discovering a £51m black hole in their pension fund
'Protect TV quiz viewers'  [01/21/2007 01:17 PM]
MPs will this week publish a damning report into TV quiz shows that is expected to call for tighter regulation of the controversial games that one said were 'tantamount to theft'
Row over £9bn Pru asset plan  [01/21/2007 01:17 PM]
Prudentials plan to distribute £9bn of surplus assets is mired in controversy because of rumours that an industry insider will be made 'policyholder advocate'
Tesco in £500m green drive  [01/21/2007 01:17 PM]
Tesco has boarded the environmental bandwagon with a £500m 'green revolution'
UK firms bank on Brown's India mission  [01/21/2007 01:17 PM]
India is close to lifting restrictions on foreign firms investing in its domestic companies after Chancellor Gordon Brown's trade mission to the sub-continent
Small change for Farepak victims  [01/21/2007 01:17 PM]
Christmas savers who lost an average of £400 each when Farepak went bust last October will receive at most 5p for every pound, the administrator revealed today
Surprise December spending spree  [01/21/2007 01:17 PM]
Shoppers went on a bigger-than-expected spending spree during December, despite the higher cost of borrowing, official figures revealed today
H&M goes upmarket to battle rival Zara  [01/21/2007 01:17 PM]
Fashion retailer H&M is to take on arch-rival Zara by unveiling a new upmarket fashion chain when it announces figures next week
TV licence to rise £4 in April  [01/21/2007 01:17 PM]
The BBC suffered a blow today when the Government revealed how much it will allow the TV licence to rise over the next six years
Average council tax bill to top £1,300  [01/21/2007 01:17 PM]
The average council tax bill will soar past the £1,300 mark in April, Government figures show
Carphone pulls Big Brother sponsorship  [01/21/2007 01:17 PM]
Carphone Warehouse suspended its sponsorship of Celebrity Big Brother today as a result of the race row
Debt grows £1m every four minutes  [01/21/2007 01:17 PM]
The personal debt mountain is increasing by £1m every four minutes, experts have warned
Carbon offset schemes exposed  [01/21/2007 01:17 PM]
Only four out of the dozens of carbon offset schemes currently offered to the general public meet the new 'gold standard' being introduced by the Government
Credit card borrowing falls  [01/21/2007 01:17 PM]
Consumers borrowed less on credit cards for the first time in at least 14 years, figures for 2006 revealed today
Fixed rate savings top 6%  [01/21/2007 01:17 PM]
Birmingham Midshires is paying savers 6.05%, following the Bank of Englands decision to raise the bank rate to 5.25% last week.
Crackdown on IVA sellers  [01/21/2007 01:17 PM]
More than a dozen firms promoting IVAs to people unable to cope with their debts have been ordered to stop using misleading adverts
Fund boss emerges with a warning on markets  [01/21/2007 01:17 PM]
Fund managers are usually reluctant to talk down markets. So when someone such as Jorma Korhonen puts his head above the parapet, investors should sit up and listen
I'm incredibly wealthy, so send me £24  [01/21/2007 01:17 PM]
Financial Mail's ace investigator Tony Hetherington tackles the protection racket that has branched out into an bogus prize give-a-ways
Cameron's in a tailspin with the City's grandees  [01/21/2007 01:17 PM]
Possibly because he spent so much time as a public relations executive, Conservative leader David Cameron appears to hold such a distinctly jaundiced view of business
Green growth is a shade false  [01/21/2007 01:17 PM]
Marks & Spencer is going green, as is Tesco. HSBC has gone green. You may conclude the new fashion is not so much deeply green and deeply phoney