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Job fears as travel firms merge

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Job fears as travel firms merge - Tour operators MyTravel Thomas Cook today announced plans merge deal creating bigger European rival Thomson owner Tui First-time buyers paying £250,000 - Soaring house prices have pushed London first-time buyers into 3% stamp duty bracket, landing them with tax bill of at least £7,500



Job fears as travel firms merge  [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
Tour operators MyTravel and Thomas Cook today announced plans to merge in a deal creating a bigger European rival to Thomson owner Tui
First-time buyers paying £250,000  [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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
Market report: Monday latest  [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
12.00:Speculators were again nibbling away at shares of supermarkets chain J Sainsbury today in the belief another bidder will soon emerge
Official: It's not easy being green  [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
Feature:As consumers are bombarded with confusing information on what is eco-friendly, experts call for greater transparency
Vodafone wins India auction  [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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
Road tolls must have public support  [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
Road charging will not go ahead if it is not supported by the public, the Transport Secretary said last night
Flexi-work plan angers bosses  [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
Business leaders have reacted angrily to calls by a Government minister for all employees to have the right to request flexible working
Forty and still living off parents  [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
It is the fastest-growing and most generous financial institution in the land - the Bank of Mum and Dad
A to Z of the Sunday newspapers  [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
Here is This is Money's round-up of some of the bigger stories from the Sunday finance and business pages
Gas bills 'should fall further'  [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
Gas prices should fall by a further 20% this year, on top of the latest announced price reductions, saving households around £300 a year
Directors escape board bans  [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
More than 500 rogue directors a year are set to escape a boardroom ban because of Government cuts to its Insolvency Service budget
Bank faces embarrassment on inflation  [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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
Esure brings call centres home  [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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
Hit shows may be lost as Virgin grows  [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
An increasingly acrimonious row could see BSkyB pull some of its top satellite channels from Virgin Media next week
The battle for TVR  [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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
Tax breaks for green households  [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
The Chancellor is to give households who sell power to energy companies a welcome tax break in his Budget, expected next month
Tax trap hits innocent bosses  [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
Caught in the crossfire between the Revenue and VAT fraudsters, one boss tells of his ordeal
Mortgage fees rocket by 20%  [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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
London may link up with NYSE  [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
The LSE will consider linking up with its New York counterpart and Euronext after successfully seeing off Nasdaq's hostile £2.7bn bid
Can the FTSE run continue?  [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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
Tesco staff in line for windfall  [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
Thousands of workers at Tesco are to receive about £7000 each as two of the firm's savings schemes mature, it was announced today
The £200m world lotto jackpot  [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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
OFT widens card charges probe  [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
The Office of Fair Trading today widened the scope of its investigation into the fees charged by Mastercard and Visa to include debit cards
Watch out for wine, women... and a con  [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
This week, the ace investigator looks at a women's only pyramid scheme that promises members it will deliver thousands in profits
Who will spoil the private equity party?  [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
For their own protection, shareholders should insist that no corporation - even one with HSBC's pedigree - is above good governance
Next maps out fightback plan  [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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
An overflowing labour pool  [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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
Light touch may bring heavy penalties  [02/12/2007 01:17 PM]
There are now concerns that, after soothing people's fears about financial services the FSA has created a new crisis for itself