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UK stores in row over 4p-an-hour factories  [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
Britian's largest retailers have been accused of breaching international labour standards in producing inexpensive clothes
BT package to challenge Sky football  [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
BT today challenged Sky's dominance of pay-TV coverage of the Premier League with a rival £12 a month package
Market report: Monday latest  [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
12.15:Three private-equity companies have teamed up to buy Cadbury Schweppes' US drinks division for about £7.5bn
London shoppers defy rates and rain  [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
Shoppers splashed the cash last month in the capital despite rising interest rates and appalling weather
Official: House price growth slowing  [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
House price growth slowed during May as the property market showed further signs that it may be losing momentum, Government figures revealed today
RBS ups cash to win ABN Amro  [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
Royal Bank of Scotland today tabled an improved offer for ABN Amro as the titanic battle for control of the Dutch bank intensified
The middle class council house rush  [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
Soaring numbers of people desperate to find a home are turning to their council for help, official figures reveal
Metronet 'facing ruin' as £551m demand fails  [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
Tube maintenance firm Metronet could go into administration today, after its demands for London Underground to pay for a £551m overspend were rejected
'Bomb threat' cost Tesco millions  [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
The retail giant remains silent on the motive behind a security alert that closed 14 of its stores on the busiest shopping day of the week
Coming soon: ad breaks on ATMs  [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
As if it wasn't enough that some banks charge you to use cash machines, now they are going to start pumping advertising at you while you wait for your cash
Women miss out in pensions shake-up  [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
Thousands of women who stayed at home to raise children or care for elderly relatives will lose thousands because they were born too soon
A to Z of the Sunday papers  [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
We read the Sunday papers so you don't have to. Here's our round-up of the big stories doing the rounds in the business sections this week.
Post Office staff forced to do the hard sell  [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
Next time you go to the Post Office for a stamp you're likely to be sold financial products by a staff member who hates the idea as much as you do
How Geldof could save £1.6m in death tax  [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
He campaigns for the Government to use taxpayers' cash to cut world poverty but his personal arrangmements could potentially deprive the Exchequer of £1.6m
The £500m hidden holiday cost  [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
Banks are pushing up the cost of using plastic cards overseas just as millions of families take their summer holidays
Buy-to-let delivers 13% annual return  [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
Buy-to-let investors made healthy returns of 13% in the past year thanks to rising house prices bolstering falling rental returns, according to a new report
Economist warns of house price collapse  [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
There is a one in five chance of a UK house price crash over the next two years, a leading economist has warned
Shares hit new heights despite debt  [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
Stock markets are casting off fears of a credit meltdown to reach record peaks - and disregarding bad news in an outburst of deal-driven euphoria.
Firms 'blackmailed on pensions'  [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
Ministers were last night accused by MPs of 'blackmailing' companies over the pensions crisis
Hetherington: Natwest and my dying husband; M&S blunder; Barclaycard despair  [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
Every week, Tony Hetherington replies to readers' problems. This week he helps a widow come to terms with a horror story at the local bank.
Midas: Tanfield on track with niche businesses  [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
When the EU effectively banned the humble ladder Tanfield Group came up with an alternative. And with its electric vans business it is going places, says the Financial Mail tipster.
When Enoch Powell met Debra  [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
Now that we no longer have a Department of Trade and Industry, or much trade for that matter, perhaps it's time to introduce Enoch's award for imports
The nine lives of misleading Equitable boss  [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
Charles Thomson has finally received his punishment for faking the character reference on his job application - a mild telling off
30 second guide to Price Comparison Sites  [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
The Daily mails City desk look at the websites that can help stop you being ripped-off