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Budget 2007: Brown's last stand [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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Gordon Brown came out fighting today with extra cash for families, schools and pensioners - but it will be paid for by drinkers, smokers and drivers
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Another rate rise 'just weeks off' [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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The 11.6m homeowners with mortgages were put on red alert yesterday that a fourth interest rate rise could be just weeks away
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Market report: Wednesday latest [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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10.30:The oil sector is back in favour at HSBC, which has upgraded it from neutral to overweight
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Barclays bank scandal exposed [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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A BBC undercover reporter worked at Barclays for four months. She discovered dishonesty, contempt for customers and a ruthless sales culture
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Shares turmoil averted a rate rise [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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Homeowners were spared another rise in borrowing costs this month as stock market turbulence prompted the Bank of England to hold interest rates at 5.25%, it was revealed today
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Barclays plots move to Holland [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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Barclays Bank is planning to move its head office to Amsterdam in an effort to persuade Dutch rival ABN Amro to agree to an £80bn merger
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Cheap CD imports halted by court [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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Music fans will no longer be able to buy cheap CDs and DVDs from internet stores that bring in supplies from outside Europe
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Britain to cave in on open skies [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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Britain looks likely to cave in to pressure over a deal that will allow many more airlines to fly to America from Heathrow
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20% of new car buyers go green [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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The number of Britons looking to buy 'green' cars has risen three-fold over the past 12 months, a survey has found
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Report calls for two new council tax bands [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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A landmark report is expected to suggest new council tax bands should be introduced for the most expensive and cheapest homes
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Ofcom to probe pay-TV market [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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Media regulator Ofcom announced it is to launch an investigation into the pay-TV market in the wake of the BSkyB and Virgin Media battle
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Home loans record but 'boom near end' [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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Mortgage lending soared to record levels last month, but the boom in the housing market could be drawing to a close
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Sixteen in fight for Sugar's plum job [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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A London Olympics hopeful, a bankrupt entrepreneur and a quantum physicist are among the fresh batch of contestants vying for a job with tycoon Sir Alan Sugar
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Investors lose £20bn Enron battle [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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Three investment banks, including Barclays, have won a landmark victory after a US court threw out a £21bn Enron class action
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Pound at risk from cheap foreign cash [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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Britain's economy is dangerously hooked on cheap foreign credit, fuelling an 'unsustainable' spending spree by individuals and the Government
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Hospitals' £95m parking bonanza [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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Hospitals were accused of exploiting patients and their families yesterday after it emerged they raked in £95m from car parking fees last year
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Train fares to rise 20% for off-peak travel [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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Train passengers travelling at off-peak times will pay up to 20% more under rules being introduced by Britain's biggest rail company
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The rise of the £2,500 mortgage fee [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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Homebuyers are being hit by soaring charges for mortgages which have nearly doubled in just three years - making it harder to compare the cost of loans
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Rogue agents face £1,000 fine [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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Rogue estate agents will be compelled to sign up to compensation schemes under new rules to protect homebuyers and sellers
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Sellers may yet pay up for home surveys [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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Homeowners could be forced to pay for expensive surveys when they sell, despite an earlier climbdown by Ministers on controversial new rules
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Millions in 'fuel poverty' trap [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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The number of families forced to choose between heating or eating has doubled over the past two years as gas and electricity bills have soared
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£400m grabbed from dormant accounts [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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More than £400m in so-called dormant bank accounts is to be raided by the Government to fund charities and community centres.
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The video is dead - it's official [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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Time has officially been called on a handful of popular gadgets as video players, 35mm cameras and car CD changers are replaced in the nation's shopping basket
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Google working on plans for mobile phone [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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Online search giant Google is understood to be developing its own mobile phone, thought to be a BlackBerry-like device
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Barclays betrays its roots [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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Barclays was last night in triumphal mood having secured a deal with ABN Amro but a move to Holland flies in the face of 317 years of proud history
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30 Second Guide To Inflation basket [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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The Daily Mails City team examine the basket of goods that are monitored to determine the price of our daily lives - And why broccoli has replaced Brussels sprouts in our affections
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Why we're Browned off [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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Brown has tried to force as many people as possible onto tax credits and means-tested allowances. But those who choose to stand on their own feet have been more highly taxed.
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