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HSBC makes a branch 'rich only'

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HSBC makes branch 'rich only' - Britain's biggest bank has banned poorer customers from one of its branches: those who earn less £75,000 will no longer be served Mobile firms face cap roaming charges - Euro-MPs today backed plans slash cost of mobile phone 'roaming' charges - prices consumers pay make receive mobile calls while abroad



HSBC makes a branch 'rich only'  [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
Britain's biggest bank has banned poorer customers from one of its branches: those who earn less than £75,000 will no longer be served there
Mobile firms face cap on roaming charges  [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
Euro-MPs today backed plans to slash the cost of mobile phone 'roaming' charges - the prices consumers pay to make and receive mobile calls while abroad
Market report: Thursday latest  [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
11.45:There are no losers when it comes to investing in shares of ICI. At least, that is the conclusion of Merrill Lynch
Goofy gadgets boost Lakeland  [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
Profits at household products firm Lakeland have soared as thousands of us rush to buy strange, but useful gizmos we never knew we needed
Housing market shrugs off rate rises  [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
House price inflation picked up for the first time in five months during March as the market shrugged off the impact of higher interest rates
Identity fraud 'surges by 70%'  [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
Identity fraud in the second half of 2006 was up almost 70% on the same period a year earlier, according to new figures
Top restaurants rip off diners for wines  [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
Our most celebrated restaurants are charging diners well over the odds for champagne and fine wines, researchers say
Electricity monitors to show cost of use  [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
Monitors showing us exactly how much electricity we use - and how much it costs - are to be made available across the country
£129 New York flights take off  [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
A Transatlantic air fares war will break out today when a new budget airline announces flights to New York from as little as £129
IMF warns over £58bn UK black hole  [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
Soaring health care and pension costs will put an intolerable strain on public finances as Britain grows old, says the International Monetary Fund
The mechanic's son on £150m a year  [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
Christopher Hohn, the son of a car mechanic, was named yesterday as one of the best-paid City fund managers in Britain, as he pocketed up to £150m last year
Debt firms rapped for inflated claims  [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
A crackdown on misleading advertising saw three providers of IVAs censured today for making exaggerated claims over the amount of debt customers can write off
3G price war as mobile web cost slashed  [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
Mobile phone companies today slashed internet access costs in a new price war, but industry experts warn of desperation
Citigroup slashes 17,000 jobs  [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
Up to 1,000 London bankers paid between £100,000 and £1m are to lose their jobs as a massive worldwide cull was ordered at Citigroup
£10bn Sainsbury's bid plan abandoned  [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
Private equity firm CVC today abandoned plans for a £10.1bn offer for supermarket giant Sainsbury's
The building society pension fat cats  [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
At least six building society bosses have accumulated pension pots in excess of £3m, a survey of the latest society accounts shows
Postmen bowed by HSBC's 3lb report  [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
Postmen are staggering under a blockbuster annual report from banking giant HSBC, a 454-page volume that weighs no less than 3lb
London luxury homes average £5m  [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
Foreign millionaires and City workers with big bonus cheques drove the price of London's luxury homes to a new record last month
New homes are getting smaller  [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
Tiny, packed together in even greater numbers and still too expensive for young adults - the official picture of the property landscape today
Energy firms profiteering on cheaper gas  [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
Energy giants have been criticised for failing to cut their prices despite a sharp drop in the cost of wholesale gas, with at least 23m households seeing no drop in bills
Sub-prime mortgage lenders face probe  [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
The country's leading financial watchdog today said it will investigate the market in sub-prime mortgages to make sure borrowers are being treated fairly
Accident Group boss killed in car crash  [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
The former boss of a Manchester-based accident claims company who sacked his 2,500 staff by text message has died in a car crash in Spain, the Foreign Office said today
Cold kills City chief on mountain pilgrimage  [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
The millionaire chief of a City investment fund has died after becoming trapped in a snowstorm in the Pyrenees
Heave-ho for the vultures  [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
The capitulation of CVC, the last player standing in the private equity consortium seeking to take control of J Sainsbury, is a cause for rejoicing
30 second guide to tax on foreign profits  [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
The Daily Mail's City team examine a potential change in tax law that could repatriate billions of pounds back into the UK
Hetherington: Money down a Slovakian drain  [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
Every week readers' champion Tony Hetherington investigates your problems - This week he examines a fraudster offering worthless warrants and an update on a vanishing adviser