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Rivals sounded out for Direct Line [05/07/2007 01:17 PM]
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Bidders are being lined up to make an £8bn offer for the Direct Line and Churchill insurance division of Royal Bank of Scotland
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RBS makes £12bn La Salle offer [05/07/2007 01:17 PM]
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Royal Bank of Scotland was today reported to have made a £12bn offer for LaSalle, the US bank at the heart of the ABN Amro takeover saga
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A to Z of the Sunday newspapers [05/07/2007 01:17 PM]
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Here's our weekly round-up of some of the biggest news stories from the financial world this Sunday
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Green gets £1m for staying with Tesco [05/07/2007 01:17 PM]
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Tesco clothing boss Terry Green landed a £1m pay rise, taking his salary to at least £2.5m, after choosing to stay at Tesco rather than moving to M&S
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3i to take stake in Foster firm [05/07/2007 01:17 PM]
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Private equity group 3i is poised to buy a stake in the architectural business of Lord Foster, which designed Wembley Stadium and the Millennium Bridge
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400 phone jobs to go in revamp [05/07/2007 01:17 PM]
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Mobile giants Vodafone and Orange are set to axe hundreds of jobs by forming a new company to manage and maintain their networks
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Tories may axe duty on shares [05/07/2007 01:17 PM]
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Stamp duty on share transactions, which nets around £3bn a year could be axed by a Tory government, Shadow Chancellor George Osborne has said
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Bank to raise rates next week [05/07/2007 01:17 PM]
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The Bank of England looks certain to raise interest rates next week as it battles to steer inflation - at its highest level in more than a decade - back to target
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Don't rush to sell before Hips [05/07/2007 01:17 PM]
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Homeowners have been warned to ignore the hype and not rush to sell their property before home information packs become law - by an estate agent
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Record numbers going bust [05/07/2007 01:17 PM]
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The number of people declaring themselves insolvent has soared to record levels as higher borrowing and living costs begin to bite
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Predators circle £8bn Reuters [05/07/2007 01:17 PM]
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News and data giant Reuters today looked set for a sensational £8bn takeover bid from Canadian archrival Thomson
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Tesco faces phone line sale probe [05/07/2007 01:17 PM]
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Tesco is being investigated over claims that it mis-sold fixed-line phone contracts
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Couple offer bin pick-ups for £90 [05/07/2007 01:17 PM]
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A couple have capitalised on the backlash against fornightly bin collection, by offering weekly pick ups for £90 per year - with improved customer service
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Home seller packs face the chop [05/07/2007 01:17 PM]
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Home seller packs could be scrapped by MPs only days before they are due to be introduced, after ministers were forced into allowing a Commons vote
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£2.5bn EMI bid war breaks out [05/07/2007 01:17 PM]
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Lily Allen, Joss Stone and Norah Jones can expect to have new publishers soon after a £2.5bn bidding war broke out today for music group EMI
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Supermarkets selling farmed fish as wild [05/07/2007 01:17 PM]
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Sainsburys and Harrods have been accused of selling cheap farmed fish as wild following a nationwide survey by the Food Standards Agency
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Estate agents get £10m for tax details [05/07/2007 01:17 PM]
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Estate agents will be paid £10m by council tax snoopers in return for details on homes, it was revealed yesterday
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Ryanair rage at passenger tax hike [05/07/2007 01:17 PM]
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The doubling of taxes on flying is hurting Ryanair, Europe's biggest budget airline today admitted
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Massow's case vs Zurich gets green light [05/07/2007 01:17 PM]
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Businessman Ivan Massow today won the right to take one of world's biggest insurance companies to trial over claims its policies discriminated against gay men
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City keeps favourable eye on WSP [05/07/2007 01:17 PM]
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Consultancy group WSP helps companies and government bodies in three distinct spheres - property, transport and the environment.
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Performance is key to better situation [05/07/2007 01:17 PM]
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New funds being launched by Fidelity are nothing more than a smokescreen to its problems. It needs to get its performance numbers back up to scratch.
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BP's new boss needs more oil, less blood [05/07/2007 01:17 PM]
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Lord Browne showed a lamentable lack of judgment, but it would be unfortunate were other boardrooms not to be able to share in his strategic business thinking
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Credit controls turn full circle [05/07/2007 01:17 PM]
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Should you be feeling hard done by at the prospect of Thursday's expected quarter-point rise in the base rate, spare a thought for our exporters
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Small cap share tips: SovGem and Choices [05/07/2007 01:17 PM]
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Our small caps experts reveal the Aim stocks that are set to fly or dive. This week, unloved SovGEM undergoes a reappraisal
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