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Boots crisis talks on £10bn bid [03/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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Directors of Alliance Boots are this weekend convening an emergency board meeting to consider Friday's shock £9.7bn takeover offer
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Banks' secret war on fees claims [03/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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Banks are secretly sabotaging the snowballing number claims to claw back excessively high penalty fees by quietly changing account terms and conditions
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Market report: Friday close [03/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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17.00:It was supermarket sweep on the leaderboard today as a bout of fresh rumours saw investors piling into J Sainsbury, Wm Morrison and Tesco
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£60,000 homes go on sale for £175,000 [03/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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The flagship scheme to build affordable homes for just £60,000 was last night facing embarrassment after the first properties went on sale - for at least £175,000 each
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Virgin Radio admits phone request scam [03/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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Virgin Radio has admitted charging listeners for record requests that they stand little or no chance of hearing on air, echoing the scandal over TV phone-ins
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Rubbish tax 'could be £20 a week' [03/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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Government proposals to charge households according to the weight of rubbish they generate could cost families more than £1,000 a year, a senior council chief has warned
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Brown to stake £600m on clean power [03/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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Chanellor Gordon Brown plans to invest up to £600m to develop 'carbon capture' technology to transform coal into a clean fuel
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Property boss faces £625,000 claim [03/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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A former head of valuations for Dunlop Haywards, part of Aim-listed property company Erinaceous, is being pursued for £625,000 by the administrators of a failed property company
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BAE faces new inquiry over arms deals [03/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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Defence giant BAE Systems faces an inquiry into allegations that it misled the Government over arms deals
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Terrace homes rise fastest [03/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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Forever associated with two-up two-downs and Coronation Street, terrace houses may not have much glamour, but their value has risen faster than any other property type
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Russians storm billionaires' club [03/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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The world's richest are getting younger and wealthier with more Russians and Indians among the 946 billionaires on Forbes magazine's 2007 list
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Ramsay takes £2m bite out of his profits [03/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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Gordon Ramsay has awarded himself a £2.1m bonus from the earnings of his burgeoning restaurant empire which has slipped £2.4m into the red
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Bulgaria homes bulldozer threat [03/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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Bulgaria is a fast-growing destination for Britons buying property abroad but could an environmental row lead to dream homes being demolished?
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Action as TV quiz scandal grows [03/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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Channel Five quiz shows featured fake 'winners' it was revealed today as the official regulator announced a crackdown on premium rate phone services
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Shortage pushes homes up £3,500 [03/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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A shortage of homes for sale in high cost areas helped push house prices up by more than £3,500 in February, but a property slowdown may be beginning
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Interest rates remain at 5.25% [03/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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Borrowers will see no increase in their monthly repayments for the time-being as the Bank of England today kept interest rates on hold at 5.25%
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Waitrose is UKs favourite shop [03/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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Shoppers have voted up-market grocer Waitrose as their favourite retailer while sister store John Lewis was voted second best
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Garden grabs claim 30,000 plots a year [03/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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Garden-grabbing by developers is leading to 30,000 gardens being lost per year. Now MPs from across the parties are trying to fight back against misguided planning laws
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Breaking the bank [03/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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A customer who took on his bank after it refused to supply details of illegal charges on his account is celebrating victory
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TV quiz shows accused of fraud [03/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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The row over television phone quizzes intensified today when a watchdog accused some shows of being engaged in 'semi-fraudulent behaviour'
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Town halls in fat-cat pay row [03/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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Claims that council taxes have risen to fund an army of overpaid town hall executives were rejected by local government chiefs today
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John Lewis gives record bonuses [03/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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John Lewis was crowned king of the high street today after making record profits, which sparked a pay bonanza for the partnership's 68,000 staff
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MPs to investigate free banking [03/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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Banks are to be investigated by MPs amid allegations of profiteering, rip-offs and threats to impose annual fees on current accounts
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Post office closures 'will hit communities' [03/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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Plans to close 2,500 post offices will 'significantly' affect local communities, especially hitting pensioners and disabled people, a new report warned today
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Watchdog urged to probe 'landbank' scams [03/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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The Office of Fair Trading came under pressure today to investigate firms that 'scam' consumers into buying small plots of rural land on the promise of high returns
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Morgan's focus still on growth [03/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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Financial Mail on Sunday's star share tipper gives the thumbs up to Morgan Sindall and a qualified approval to GTE
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Murdoch can feel smug on quiz scandal [03/11/2007 01:17 PM]
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Down the centuries, women have been portrayed as learning to their cost that hard-won reputations are easily lost. It is a lesson that our major broadcasters should start to absorb
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