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Tour operators challenge air tax

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Tour operators challenge air tax - Leading tour operators today launched legal challenge Government's Air Passenger Duty (APD) airport departure tax Homes rise £1,200 sellers' market - The lack of homes for sale led biggest monthly leap house prices for almost three years - with average property rising £1,200 February



Tour operators challenge air tax  [02/26/2007 01:17 PM]
Leading tour operators today launched a legal challenge to the Government's Air Passenger Duty (APD) airport departure tax
Homes rise £1,200 in sellers' market  [02/26/2007 01:17 PM]
The lack of homes for sale led to the biggest monthly leap in house prices for almost three years - with the average property rising £1,200 in February
Market report: Monday latest  [02/26/2007 01:17 PM]
11:45Alfred McAlpine today plunged 63½p to 550p after the company warned it had uncovered what looks like fraud going back several years
BSkyB warns of profits hit  [02/26/2007 01:17 PM]
BSkyB warned today of a possible £20m hit to profits if a row with Virgin Media leads to its basic channels being pulled from the network
£300m boom for Fairtrade aids the poor  [02/26/2007 01:17 PM]
Sales of Fairtrade goods have risen by nearly half in a year in Britain, with shoppers spending nearly £300m
HBOS staff to share £210m  [02/26/2007 01:17 PM]
Around 50,000 bank and mortgage sales staff at Halifax Bank of Scotland were celebrating news of a £210m shares windfall today
Rise and rise of the 100% mortgage  [02/26/2007 01:17 PM]
The number of homebuyers taking out 100% mortgages has doubled in a year, a top broker said last night
Tesco criticised over school vouchers  [02/26/2007 01:17 PM]
Tesco has been criticised for demanding £1m of spending for a £3,000 trampoline in its voucher system. Not one school has saved enough
Could this be the end of email scams?  [02/26/2007 01:17 PM]
A Europe-wide crackdown is being launched to stamp out scams that are netting more than £1bn from vulnerable people - in the UK alone
Travel cover crackdown  [02/26/2007 01:17 PM]
MPs called for a travel insurance crackdown today after finding that 10m holidaymakers in 2006 were left without medical cover in the event of terrorist attacks
Are you one of the 750,000 shopaholics?  [02/26/2007 01:17 PM]
750,000 people Brits have been identified as shopaholics who spend more than than £200 a month and have debts topping £11,000
The 'free banking myth'  [02/26/2007 01:17 PM]
Monday view:There's no such thing as 'free banking' and any bank that offers it should be sued, says Andrew Hilton director of a leading think tank
C4 'warned two years ago' on quiz scam  [02/26/2007 01:17 PM]
Channel 4 was warned more than two years ago in a devastating email that the Richard And Judy phone-in competition was 'unfair'
Now BBC admit phone-in gaffe  [02/26/2007 01:17 PM]
The firm behind the Richard And Judy quiz 'scam' is embroiled in fresh allegations that it also misled viewers of Saturday Kitchen
Banks face huge bills over charges  [02/26/2007 01:17 PM]
The High Street banks will have to set aside hundreds of millions of pounds to repay unfair charges levied on current accounts, analysts have warned
Fresh hope for broadband customers  [02/26/2007 01:17 PM]
Ofcom is considering a review of how complaints from phone and broadband users are handled over concerns that disputes are taking too long to resolve
A to Z of the Sunday newspapers  [02/26/2007 01:17 PM]
A round-up of interesting stories from the business pages of the Sunday (and one Saturday) papers
Happy to pay for UK call centres  [02/26/2007 01:17 PM]
More than 90% of people would pay extra for goods and services if they the company's call centres were in Britain, according to our survey
Brown to earn £1bn from Reits  [02/26/2007 01:17 PM]
The Chancellor is set to reap a huge windfall this year from property companies turning themselves into tax-efficient real estate investment trusts
Brown urged to lift death tax  [02/26/2007 01:17 PM]
Calls have begun for Gordon Brown to substantially revamp inheritance tax just days after the announcement of the Budget date
Thousands of Airbus jobs face the axe  [02/26/2007 01:17 PM]
Highly skilled Airbus jobs in Britain are at risk because parent company Eads is expected to scrap plans to invest £100m in a new high-tech carbon fibre plant
Water bills to rise by 16%  [02/26/2007 01:17 PM]
The average cost of water in some parts of Britain is to hit £650 as the industry regulator urges companies to plug holes in the system
Taxman grabs £bn from late payers  [02/26/2007 01:17 PM]
Gordon brown was last night accused of shamelessly grabbing half a billion pounds from late-paying taxpayers
The boiler room boys are back with a new 'bargain'  [02/26/2007 01:17 PM]
This week our ace investigator exposes the bad guys selling shares in Northern Lynx, the money missing from a PayPal account and a gemstone storage scam. Read on...
Share tips: Recognise RCG's big potential  [02/26/2007 01:17 PM]
Its products may look like they belong in a James Bond film but investors looking for excitement should also take a look at RC Group, says the Financial Mail's tipster. Also in the spotlight: Findel, UraMin.
Pensions victory brings a well-earned smile  [02/26/2007 01:17 PM]
A judge's ruling that the Government mis-managed the pensions wind-up crisis is the first-step to victory for protesters who lost their livelihoods - let's hope ministers see fit to deal with the mess
Britain leads the way on private equity  [02/26/2007 01:17 PM]
At last, an attempt to improve transparency over the murky practice of buying companies on the cheap and loading them with tax-free debt
Currency deals short of change  [02/26/2007 01:17 PM]
Foreign exchange markets still do not work today, when a policy of benign neglect has replaced the intervention of 20 years ago