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HSBC makes a branch 'rich only' [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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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
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Mobile firms face cap on roaming charges [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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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
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Market report: Thursday latest [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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11.45:There are no losers when it comes to investing in shares of ICI. At least, that is the conclusion of Merrill Lynch
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Goofy gadgets boost Lakeland [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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Profits at household products firm Lakeland have soared as thousands of us rush to buy strange, but useful gizmos we never knew we needed
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Housing market shrugs off rate rises [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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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
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Identity fraud 'surges by 70%' [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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Identity fraud in the second half of 2006 was up almost 70% on the same period a year earlier, according to new figures
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Top restaurants rip off diners for wines [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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Our most celebrated restaurants are charging diners well over the odds for champagne and fine wines, researchers say
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Electricity monitors to show cost of use [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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Monitors showing us exactly how much electricity we use - and how much it costs - are to be made available across the country
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£129 New York flights take off [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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A Transatlantic air fares war will break out today when a new budget airline announces flights to New York from as little as £129
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IMF warns over £58bn UK black hole [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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Soaring health care and pension costs will put an intolerable strain on public finances as Britain grows old, says the International Monetary Fund
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The mechanic's son on £150m a year [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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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
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Debt firms rapped for inflated claims [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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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
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3G price war as mobile web cost slashed [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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Mobile phone companies today slashed internet access costs in a new price war, but industry experts warn of desperation
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Citigroup slashes 17,000 jobs [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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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
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£10bn Sainsbury's bid plan abandoned [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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Private equity firm CVC today abandoned plans for a £10.1bn offer for supermarket giant Sainsbury's
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The building society pension fat cats [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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At least six building society bosses have accumulated pension pots in excess of £3m, a survey of the latest society accounts shows
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Postmen bowed by HSBC's 3lb report [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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Postmen are staggering under a blockbuster annual report from banking giant HSBC, a 454-page volume that weighs no less than 3lb
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London luxury homes average £5m [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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Foreign millionaires and City workers with big bonus cheques drove the price of London's luxury homes to a new record last month
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New homes are getting smaller [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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Tiny, packed together in even greater numbers and still too expensive for young adults - the official picture of the property landscape today
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Energy firms profiteering on cheaper gas [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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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
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Sub-prime mortgage lenders face probe [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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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
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Accident Group boss killed in car crash [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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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
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Cold kills City chief on mountain pilgrimage [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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The millionaire chief of a City investment fund has died after becoming trapped in a snowstorm in the Pyrenees
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Heave-ho for the vultures [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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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
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30 second guide to tax on foreign profits [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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The Daily Mail's City team examine a potential change in tax law that could repatriate billions of pounds back into the UK
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Hetherington: Money down a Slovakian drain [04/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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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
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