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Rate rises cool house market [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
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House price inflation cooled for a third consecutive month in January as buyer demand fell back in the face of higher interest rates, an influential report today indicated
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New Year hangover for retail [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
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Retail sales fell at the sharpest rate in four years last month after strong Christmas trading was followed by a new year hangover, it emerged today.
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Market report: Thursday latest [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
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13.00:Despite a recordbreaking run overnight on Wall Street and a fresh surge in share prices in Asian markets this morning share prices made a cautious start
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Capital One fined £175,000 [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
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Breaking news: Capital One has become the second major credit card provider to be fined over the way it sold payment protection insurance
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Powergen stokes fuel price war [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
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Powergen has guaranteed to beat British Gas' recently announced standard tariff price cuts for the next 18 months
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Bank says rates will have to rise again [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
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Interest rates will have to rise once more to drag inflation in the UK back to its target, the Bank of England signalled today
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Nationwide gets £1m laptop fine [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
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Nationwide Building Society has been fined nearly £1m following the theft of a laptop from an employees home, which contained confidential customer information
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Buy-to-let mortgages up by 48% [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
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The number of mortgages being taken out by landlords shot up by almost 50% last year, figures showed today
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Energy suppliers in price war [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
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Exclusive:An energy price war is set to come to the boil in the next few days with rival suppliers trumping British Gas's recently announced cuts
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JJB offers free football shirts [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
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JJB Sports is offering a free football top to customers that purchased one of the tops caught up in the price fixing argument
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Asda under fire over cheap roses [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
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A Valentine's Day price war was underway today, with one supermarket offering a dozen red roses for just £2
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Economy harmed by sickie culture [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
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Britain's economic future is being jeopardised by soaring incapacity benefit claims, poor education and creaking infrastructure, a report shows
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The M&S top made from 11 plastic bottles [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
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This is the M&S jacket that could lead a green revolution in the high street. It is made from 11 recycled plastic bottles
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Council tenants helped to buy [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
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Radical plans to get the poorest on to the housing ladder were unveiled as the Government announced a new right-to-buy scheme for council tenants
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BA cuts slack on new baggage rules [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
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British Airways today introduced its new policy of charging for excess baggage but check-in staff were told to give 'sympathetic treatment' to passengers unaware of the rules
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Rates relief as prices slow [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
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The pressure appears to be off the Bank of England to raise rates again next month as inflation dropped back well below 3% in January
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£120 a month extra for new buyers [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
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First-time buyers must pay £120 a month more to get on the property ladder than they would have done a year ago
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Endowment claims firm shut down [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
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Claims firm Austin Hamilton Associates, which branded itself the UK's leading endowment compensation specialist, has been shut down
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VW could be exposed to takeover [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
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A German law that shields Europe's biggest carmaker Volkswagen from takeovers breaks EU rules by hampering investors, an adviser said today
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Sports tycoon to net £800m in float [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
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Entrepreneur Mike Ashley was poised for an £800m windfall today after announcing plans for the flotation of his Sports World retail empire
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Housing market boosts B&B [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
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Record levels of lending today helped mortgage giant Bradford & Bingley post an 8% rise in profits for 2006
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Romantics urged to buy blooms from Africa [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
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Buying Valentine's Day flowers flown in from Africa will help the planet and the world's poor, the Government claimed today
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Birmingham is UK's card fraud hotspot [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
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People living in Birmingham are most likely to fall victim to credit or debit card fraud, a new report has found
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Cool Britannia fades away [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
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It has been one hard day's night after another for the EMI chief executive who stunned the City with a second profits warning in a month
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Watch out for wine, women... and a con [02/15/2007 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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An overflowing labour pool [02/15/2007 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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30 Second Guide ToThe Smoking Ban [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
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The Daily Mails City team assess the winners and losers from the forthcoming ban on smoking in public places
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