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Job fears as travel firms merge [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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Tour operators MyTravel and Thomas Cook today announced plans to merge in a deal creating a bigger European rival to Thomson owner Tui
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First-time buyers paying £250,000 [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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Soaring house prices have pushed London first-time buyers into the 3% stamp duty bracket, landing them with a tax bill of at least £7,500
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Market report: Monday latest [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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12.00:Speculators were again nibbling away at shares of supermarkets chain J Sainsbury today in the belief another bidder will soon emerge
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Official: It's not easy being green [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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Feature:As consumers are bombarded with confusing information on what is eco-friendly, experts call for greater transparency
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Vodafone wins India auction [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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Vodafone last night won a hard-fought auction for a majority stake in the Indian mobile phones group Hutchison Essar after tabling a deal worth £5.7bn
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Road tolls must have public support [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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Road charging will not go ahead if it is not supported by the public, the Transport Secretary said last night
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Flexi-work plan angers bosses [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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Business leaders have reacted angrily to calls by a Government minister for all employees to have the right to request flexible working
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Forty and still living off parents [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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It is the fastest-growing and most generous financial institution in the land - the Bank of Mum and Dad
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A to Z of the Sunday newspapers [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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Here is This is Money's round-up of some of the bigger stories from the Sunday finance and business pages
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Gas bills 'should fall further' [02/12/2007 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 [02/12/2007 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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Bank faces embarrassment on inflation [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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A price movement equivalent to 1/100,000 of 1% on the inflation rate could make all the difference to the Bank of England this week
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Esure brings call centres home [02/12/2007 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
>> Financial Mail's call centre survey
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Hit shows may be lost as Virgin grows [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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An increasingly acrimonious row could see BSkyB pull some of its top satellite channels from Virgin Media next week
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The battle for TVR [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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The maker of the world's most powerful car is locked in a battle with a young Russian tycoon for control of troubled sports car maker TVR
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Tax breaks for green households [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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The Chancellor is to give households who sell power to energy companies a welcome tax break in his Budget, expected next month
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Tax trap hits innocent bosses [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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Caught in the crossfire between the Revenue and VAT fraudsters, one boss tells of his ordeal
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Mortgage fees rocket by 20% [02/12/2007 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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London may link up with NYSE [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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The LSE will consider linking up with its New York counterpart and Euronext after successfully seeing off Nasdaq's hostile £2.7bn bid
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Can the FTSE run continue? [02/12/2007 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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Tesco staff in line for windfall [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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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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The £200m world lotto jackpot [02/12/2007 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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OFT widens card charges probe [02/12/2007 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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Watch out for wine, women... and a con [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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This week, the ace investigator looks at a women's only pyramid scheme that promises members it will deliver thousands in profits
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Who will spoil the private equity party? [02/12/2007 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 [02/12/2007 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 [02/12/2007 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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Light touch may bring heavy penalties [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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There are now concerns that, after soothing people's fears about financial services the FSA has created a new crisis for itself
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