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Budget 2007: Brown's last stand

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Budget 2007: Brown's last stand - Gordon Brown came out fighting today with extra cash for families, schools pensioners - but will be paid for by drinkers, smokers drivers Another rate rise 'just weeks off' - The 11.6m homeowners with mortgages were put red alert yesterday that fourth interest rate rise could be just weeks away



Budget 2007: Brown's last stand  [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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
Another rate rise 'just weeks off'  [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
The 11.6m homeowners with mortgages were put on red alert yesterday that a fourth interest rate rise could be just weeks away
Market report: Wednesday latest  [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
10.30:The oil sector is back in favour at HSBC, which has upgraded it from neutral to overweight
Barclays bank scandal exposed  [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
A BBC undercover reporter worked at Barclays for four months. She discovered dishonesty, contempt for customers and a ruthless sales culture
Shares turmoil averted a rate rise  [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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
Barclays plots move to Holland  [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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
Cheap CD imports halted by court  [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
Music fans will no longer be able to buy cheap CDs and DVDs from internet stores that bring in supplies from outside Europe
Britain to cave in on open skies  [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
Britain looks likely to cave in to pressure over a deal that will allow many more airlines to fly to America from Heathrow
20% of new car buyers go green  [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
The number of Britons looking to buy 'green' cars has risen three-fold over the past 12 months, a survey has found
Report calls for two new council tax bands  [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
A landmark report is expected to suggest new council tax bands should be introduced for the most expensive and cheapest homes
Ofcom to probe pay-TV market  [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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
Home loans record but 'boom near end'  [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
Mortgage lending soared to record levels last month, but the boom in the housing market could be drawing to a close
Sixteen in fight for Sugar's plum job  [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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
Investors lose £20bn Enron battle  [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
Three investment banks, including Barclays, have won a landmark victory after a US court threw out a £21bn Enron class action
Pound at risk from cheap foreign cash  [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
Britain's economy is dangerously hooked on cheap foreign credit, fuelling an 'unsustainable' spending spree by individuals and the Government
Hospitals' £95m parking bonanza  [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
Hospitals were accused of exploiting patients and their families yesterday after it emerged they raked in £95m from car parking fees last year
Train fares to rise 20% for off-peak travel  [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
Train passengers travelling at off-peak times will pay up to 20% more under rules being introduced by Britain's biggest rail company
The rise of the £2,500 mortgage fee  [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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
Rogue agents face £1,000 fine  [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
Rogue estate agents will be compelled to sign up to compensation schemes under new rules to protect homebuyers and sellers
Sellers may yet pay up for home surveys  [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
Homeowners could be forced to pay for expensive surveys when they sell, despite an earlier climbdown by Ministers on controversial new rules
Millions in 'fuel poverty' trap  [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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
£400m grabbed from dormant accounts  [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
More than £400m in so-called dormant bank accounts is to be raided by the Government to fund charities and community centres.
The video is dead - it's official  [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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
Google working on plans for mobile phone  [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
Online search giant Google is understood to be developing its own mobile phone, thought to be a BlackBerry-like device
Barclays betrays its roots  [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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
30 Second Guide To Inflation basket  [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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
Why we're Browned off  [03/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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.