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Gas bills 'should fall further' [02/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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Gas prices should fall by a further 20% this year, on top of the latest announced price reductions, saving households around £300 a year
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Directors escape board bans [02/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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More than 500 rogue directors a year are set to escape a boardroom ban because of Government cuts to its Insolvency Service budget
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Market report: Friday close [02/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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17.00:Sainsbury's was topping the shopping lists with traders increasingly confident that Royal Mail chairman Allan Leighton is itching to take on the top job
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Esure brings call centres home [02/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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Esure has moved its call centres back from India, blaming poor service and suggesting the trend for outsourcing is doomed
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Mortgage fees rocket by 20% [02/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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Homeowners hit by a triple whammy of interest rate rises have also had to contend with mortgage fees rising by almost a fifth since last summer
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Can the FTSE run continue? [02/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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The FTSE 100 closed the week on a six-year high - but fears are growing over whether the index can continue on its upwards surge
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The £200m world lotto jackpot [02/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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Camelot today unveiled a new worldwide lottery draw with a top prize of more than £200m, as the centrepiece of its bid for a new licence
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Tesco staff in line for windfall [02/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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News:Thousands of workers at Tesco are to receive about £7000 each as two of the firm's savings schemes mature, it was announced today
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OFT widens card charges probe [02/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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The Office of Fair Trading today widened the scope of its investigation into the fees charged by Mastercard and Visa to include debit cards
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Chip and Pin fraud pair jailed [02/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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Two men have been sent to prison for their part in a conspiracy that could see millions looted from customer accounts
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Oil goes back above $60 [02/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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Oil prices rose above $60 a barrel today as temperatures plummeted in the US and Europe
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One in five may pay wrong tax [02/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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Almost 6m Britons could be paying the wrong amount of income tax because of confusion over tax collection through PAYE
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Gas cuts turn down heat on rates [02/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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Falling energy prices could cut inflation and reduce pressure on the Bank of England to hit households with further interest rate hikes
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Branson offers $25m for climate answer [02/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson today offered a $25m(£12.8m) prize to scientists to find a way to help save the planet from climate change
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British Gas slashes prices 15% [02/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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British Gas today became the first energy company to pass on falling wholesale prices as it said it was cutting its gas and electricity prices from next month
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M&S ponders takeover bid for Sainsbury [02/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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Shares in Marks & Spencer dipped in early trading on reports that it has been weighing up a bid for supermarket group J Sainsbury
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Cheap downloads from the supermarket [02/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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A leading supermarket chain has become the first to offer cut-price film and television downloads online in a move that will alarm High Street DVD and video stores
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Ombudsman acts on bank fees [02/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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Alliance & Leicester has been reprimanded for closing the account of a customer who successfully reclaimed bank charges
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House prices bounce back [02/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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The cost of a home leapt by more than £2,500 in January despite the shock bank rate rise, according to the latest Halifax report
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Virgin sparks TV price war [02/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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A television price war looks set to break out with the launch of a combined on-demand TV, broadband and phone service from Virgin
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BA want £120 for each extra bag [02/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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British Airways passengers from Thursday face an each-way charge of up to £240 a bag if they check in additional luggage
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HSBC in shock profit warning [02/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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Shares in global banking giant HSBC fell more than 2% after the lender shocked investors with a profit warning due to its US bad-debt problem
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Which? launches football shirt battle [02/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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A consumer group plans to sue JJB Sports on behalf of thousands of fans who were overcharged for football shirts
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My £23,000 bank fee victory [02/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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A single mother has reclaimed more than £23,000 in bank charges for herself and her friends despite having no financial or legal training
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Who will spoil the private equity party? [02/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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For their own protection, shareholders should insist that no corporation - even one with HSBC's pedigree - is above good governance
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Next maps out fightback plan [02/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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Its fortunes have waned but Next has a robust strategy and its share price should reflect that, says the Financial Mail's top stock-picker
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An overflowing labour pool [02/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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Gordon Brown's plan to round up the long-term unemployed hardly squares with the ruthless global economy in which the Goverment insists we operate
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