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Super-rich paying no income tax [06/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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Only a fraction of Britain's super-rich are paying income tax, with 400 UK-based individuals making more than £10m per year but just 65 paying their dues
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Bank chief warns on easy credit boom [06/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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Growing reckless bank lending to private equity and hedge funds risks triggering a financial meltdown, Mervyn King has warned
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Market report: Thursday morning [06/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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11:00:British hedge fund Man Group today said its US arm MF Global will be worth $5bn when it is demerged on to the New York Stock Exchange next month
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Wealth divide 'may cause riots' [06/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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As private equity bosses are savaged by MPs, a Gordon Brown adviser warns that rioting could break out on Britain's streets
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Jessops closes a third of shops [06/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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Struggling camera chain Jessops is to axe almost 81 stores across the country at a loss of 550 jobs in a bid to return the company back to profit
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Banks in 'card fraud cover-up' [06/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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Many plastic card crimes are not being reported to the police following a change in the rules affecting victims of fraud, it is claimed
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Bank struggles to hand out £5 notes [06/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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The Bank of England is struggling to find ways to distribute £5 notes with ATM providers reluctant to hold them
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B&B says buy-to-let still surging [06/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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A booming buy-to-let housing market has set specialist mortgage bank Bradford & Bingley on course for profits at the top end of City expectations
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DVLA makes £9m from drivers' phoneline [06/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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Motorists have spent £9m ringing the DVLA on a premium-rate telephone number, new figures reveal
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GM rules to 'hike organic food prices' [06/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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The price of organic food could increase because of new rules about GM content, campaigners warned today
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Budgens stores to be sold to local retailers [06/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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Supermarket chain Budgens is to sell all its stores to individual retailers, it announced today
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Boost for lending aimed at low earners [06/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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Co-operatives offering financial services to low earners were given a boost today with the announcement of a Treasury consultation aimed at encouraging the sector
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Sainsbury's recovery continues [06/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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J Sainsbury recorded its 10th consecutive quarter of growth today and moved to embrace the Qatari investors
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Rate rise on the cards [06/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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Homeowners and borrowers are facing the prospect of further repayment hikes after it emerged that the Bank of England's interest rate setters decided to hold rates by just one vote
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1.4m loan repayments missed [06/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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The Bank of England's series of rate rises have started to bite borrowers, with over 7,700 loan repayments being missed each day
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Google eyes the individual [06/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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Google has seen the future - and it's personal. Eric Schmidt, boss of the £80bn internet giant, proclaims 'personal search is the next phenomenon'
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Online calculator helps families go green [06/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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Families can work out how their lifestyle affects the environment by using a new online eco-calculator launched by the Government today
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Rich-poor gap grows in UK and US [06/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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The ultra-wealthy elite are enjoying explosive earnings while ordinary citizens languish, according to the OECD
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Two-thirds of women 'face poverty in old age' [06/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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Fewer than one in three women are saving enough money in pensions or other investments to stave off an impoverished old age
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30 second guide toTreasury committee [06/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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The Daily Mails City team examine the commons committee which grills banks and big business
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The private equity debate/Make rates 6% [06/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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Gordon Brown must come clean about how he will tackle private equity; the Bank of England should hike rates to 6%
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Annuities cause retirement pickle [06/21/2007 01:17 PM]
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Those coming up to retirement face an uncomfortable dilemma: should they take a larger income now and fix it for life, or take a much lower initial income that will rise with inflation
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