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Brown urged lift death tax - Calls have begun for Gordon Brown substantially revamp inheritance tax just days after announcement of Budget date Row as Virgin TV viewers lose Sky One - Cable customers have been left without string of hit TV shows after Virgin Media said that Sky One will be pulled from screens



Brown urged to lift death tax  [02/24/2007 01:17 PM]
Calls have begun for Gordon Brown to substantially revamp inheritance tax just days after the announcement of the Budget date
Row as Virgin TV viewers lose Sky One  [02/24/2007 01:17 PM]
Cable customers have been left without a string of hit TV shows after Virgin Media said that Sky One will be pulled from their screens
Market report: Friday close  [02/24/2007 01:17 PM]
17.00:Friday is silly story day in the City: a bid for Sainsbury's by Monday and a private-equity approach for EMI were all doing the rounds this afternoon
Farmland price boom fuelled by City buyers  [02/24/2007 01:17 PM]
City workers with huge bonuses have pushed the price of farmland to record highs as they buy into their rural dream
Employees urged to leave work on time  [02/24/2007 01:17 PM]
Workers are being urged to leave their office on time and take a proper lunchbreak today as part of a campaign to end the UK's long-hours culture
Microsoft ordered to pay £779m damages  [02/24/2007 01:17 PM]
The world's leading software giant Microsoft has been ordered to pay $1.52bn (£779m) in damages for infringing audio patents held by Alcatel-Lucent
Cost cuts boost Lloyds profit 8%  [02/24/2007 01:17 PM]
Lloyds TSB posted record profits today despite bad debts soaring by 20% last year to £1.56bn
Sorrell hails Africa as next big thing  [02/24/2007 01:17 PM]
Africa is the next big thing, according to Sir Martin Sorrell, the advertising and marketing guru who has made a career out of predicting where the next boom will come from
FT Group could take over Economist  [02/24/2007 01:17 PM]
Blue-blooded shareholders in The Economist are warming to the idea of selling out to Financial Times owner Pearson after conducting an informal valuation
How the banks take revenge  [02/24/2007 01:17 PM]
Banks are increasingly kicking out customers who demand refunds of illegal and unfair penalty charges>> How to reclaim your bank charges
Royal Mail faces EU probe over funding  [02/24/2007 01:17 PM]
Brussels regulators are to launch a full-blown investigation into alleged Government subsidy of the Royal Mail
The great gas prices revolt  [02/24/2007 01:17 PM]
British Gas lost more than 1.1m customers last year in a revolt over rip-off prices
Brown sets March 21 Budget  [02/24/2007 01:17 PM]
Gordon Brown is to deliver his 11th and probably final Budget to Parliament on March 21, the Treasury confirmed today
Pensions adviser fined £14,000  [02/24/2007 01:17 PM]
A financial services business has been fined for putting its clients at risk of hardship in retirement
Google to target piracy  [02/24/2007 01:17 PM]
Online search giant Google says it will soon offer anti-piracy technologies to help all copyright holders
Delay home packs, say lenders  [02/24/2007 01:17 PM]
Mortgage lenders have urged the Government to delay the introduction of mandatory home information packs this summer
4X4 insurance bills to soar  [02/24/2007 01:17 PM]
Owners of 4x4s are likely to bear the brunt of changes in the way car insurance is calculated
£35 for not using your plastic  [02/24/2007 01:17 PM]
Lloyds TSB is forcing thousands of its most prudent credit card customers to pay an annual fee of £35 because they do not run up any debt
IoD wants to kill off IHT  [02/24/2007 01:17 PM]
Inheritance tax should be abolished because it is an unfair penalty on hard-working families, a leading business group said yesterday
An ethical vacuum at BAE  [02/24/2007 01:17 PM]
In pure financial terms it is hard not to be impressed by BAE's results - A company which was seen as a commercial basket case is now on top of these problems
30 Second Guide To Memorandum of Understanding  [02/24/2007 01:17 PM]
The Daily Mails City team look at the gentlemens agrrement that is seldom worth more than the paper it is written on
Midas: Clamour for insulation boosts SIG  [02/24/2007 01:17 PM]
The Financial Mail's stockpicker looks at an insulation company that should benefit from Heathrow's Terminal Five