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British Gas cut online bills again - News:The energy price war heated up as British Gas made more cuts for online customers, just 24 hours after Powergen guaranteed beat its prices Pay rises keep up rates pressure - Average pay deals have risen 3.5% recent months - highest for eight years - figures showed today, supporting case for another rate rise



British Gas cut online bills again  [02/16/2007 01:17 PM]
News:The energy price war heated up as British Gas made more cuts for online customers, just 24 hours after Powergen guaranteed to beat its prices
Pay rises keep up rates pressure  [02/16/2007 01:17 PM]
Average pay deals have risen to 3.5% in recent months - the highest for eight years - figures showed today, supporting the case for another rate rise
Market report: Friday latest  [02/16/2007 01:17 PM]
11.45:Private equity outfit Cinven's decision to abandon a rival bid for J Sainsbury has done little to dampen the enthusiasm of City speculators
Bank profits soar - along with complaints  [02/16/2007 01:17 PM]
Britain's High Street banks are to reveal record profits of £37bn as customer complaints soar to an all-time high
Debt enquiries soaring  [02/16/2007 01:17 PM]
The number of people seeking advice for their debt problems has soared by 15% over the past year, Citizens Advice said today
Court halts 'boiler room' firms  [02/16/2007 01:17 PM]
Two companies accused of being involved in 'boiler-room' share selling scams have had their assets frozen by the High Court
Anger at £8m for Qinetiq chiefs  [02/16/2007 01:17 PM]
Controvery surrounding the flotation of the former MoD agency has flared again as a time-bar on share sales has allowed top bosses to cash in
MoT tests every two years  [02/16/2007 01:17 PM]
Proposals to end the need for an annual MoT check have come under fire from road safety campaigners and the motor industry
M&S in houmous salmonella scare  [02/16/2007 01:17 PM]
Marks & Spencer has been forced to remove its own brand houmous from the shelves after a salmonella scare
Dennis looks to sell lads' mags empire  [02/16/2007 01:17 PM]
Maxim publisher Felix Dennis is considering selling his lads' mag empire, a day afer new industry figures revealed grim sales figures
Internet spending to explode  [02/16/2007 01:17 PM]
Online shopping could quadruple and account for almost 40% of retail sales by 2020, a new report says
Bank insider guilty of £1.3m fraud scam  [02/16/2007 01:17 PM]
A 'bank insider' was facing jail today after helping identity thieves plunder £1.3m from accounts
Capital One fined £175,000  [02/16/2007 01:17 PM]
Capital One has become the second major credit card provider to be fined over the way it sold payment protection insurance
Powergen stokes fuel price war  [02/16/2007 01:17 PM]
Powergen has guaranteed to beat British Gas' recently announced standard tariff price cuts for the next 18 months
Bank says rates will have to rise again  [02/16/2007 01:17 PM]
Interest rates will have to rise once more to drag inflation in the UK back to its target, the Bank of England signalled today
Warning on bonus crackdown  [02/16/2007 01:17 PM]
City high-fliers will desert London for New York if a crackdown on bonuses is imposed as threatened by Labour's Peter Hain, says a leading business chief
Rate rises and debt hit High Street sales  [02/16/2007 01:17 PM]
Retail sales fell at the fastest rate for four years last month as the High Street recovery over Christmas came grinding to a halt
Nationwide gets £1m laptop fine  [02/16/2007 01:17 PM]
Nationwide Building Society has been fined nearly £1m following the theft of a laptop from an employees home, which contained confidential customer information
Rate rises cool house market  [02/16/2007 01:17 PM]
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
JJB offers free football shirts  [02/16/2007 01:17 PM]
JJB Sports is offering a free football top to customers that purchased one of the tops caught up in the price fixing argument
Buy-to-let mortgages up by 48%  [02/16/2007 01:17 PM]
The number of mortgages being taken out by landlords shot up by almost 50% last year, figures showed today
Asda under fire over cheap roses  [02/16/2007 01:17 PM]
A Valentine's Day price war was underway today, with one supermarket offering a dozen red roses for just £2
Energy suppliers in price war  [02/16/2007 01:17 PM]
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
Council tenants helped to buy  [02/16/2007 01:17 PM]
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
The M&S top made from 11 plastic bottles  [02/16/2007 01:17 PM]
This is the M&S jacket that could lead a green revolution in the high street. It is made from 11 recycled plastic bottles
No love loss for Qinetiq  [02/16/2007 01:17 PM]
The speed with which private equity firm Carlyle and chief executive Graham Love have sold stock in QinetiQ does not reflect well on the government or the company
Watch out for wine, women... and a con  [02/16/2007 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
An overflowing labour pool  [02/16/2007 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
30 Second Guide To Payment Protection Insurance (PPI)  [02/16/2007 01:17 PM]
The Daily Mails City team look at the controversial insurance that is lucrative for the banks but porr value for consumers