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UK stores in row over 4p-an-hour factories [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
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Britian's largest retailers have been accused of breaching international labour standards in producing inexpensive clothes
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BT package to challenge Sky football [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
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BT today challenged Sky's dominance of pay-TV coverage of the Premier League with a rival £12 a month package
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Market report: Monday latest [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
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12.15:Three private-equity companies have teamed up to buy Cadbury Schweppes' US drinks division for about £7.5bn
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London shoppers defy rates and rain [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
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Shoppers splashed the cash last month in the capital despite rising interest rates and appalling weather
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Official: House price growth slowing [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
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House price growth slowed during May as the property market showed further signs that it may be losing momentum, Government figures revealed today
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RBS ups cash to win ABN Amro [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
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Royal Bank of Scotland today tabled an improved offer for ABN Amro as the titanic battle for control of the Dutch bank intensified
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The middle class council house rush [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
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Soaring numbers of people desperate to find a home are turning to their council for help, official figures reveal
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Metronet 'facing ruin' as £551m demand fails [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
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Tube maintenance firm Metronet could go into administration today, after its demands for London Underground to pay for a £551m overspend were rejected
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'Bomb threat' cost Tesco millions [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
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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
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Coming soon: ad breaks on ATMs [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
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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
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Women miss out in pensions shake-up [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
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Thousands of women who stayed at home to raise children or care for elderly relatives will lose thousands because they were born too soon
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A to Z of the Sunday papers [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
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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.
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Post Office staff forced to do the hard sell [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
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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
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How Geldof could save £1.6m in death tax [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
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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
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The £500m hidden holiday cost [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
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Banks are pushing up the cost of using plastic cards overseas just as millions of families take their summer holidays
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Buy-to-let delivers 13% annual return [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
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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
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Economist warns of house price collapse [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
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There is a one in five chance of a UK house price crash over the next two years, a leading economist has warned
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Shares hit new heights despite debt [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
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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.
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Firms 'blackmailed on pensions' [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
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Ministers were last night accused by MPs of 'blackmailing' companies over the pensions crisis
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Hetherington: Natwest and my dying husband; M&S blunder; Barclaycard despair [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
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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.
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Midas: Tanfield on track with niche businesses [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
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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.
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When Enoch Powell met Debra [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
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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
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The nine lives of misleading Equitable boss [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
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Charles Thomson has finally received his punishment for faking the character reference on his job application - a mild telling off
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30 second guide to Price Comparison Sites [07/16/2007 01:17 PM]
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The Daily mails City desk look at the websites that can help stop you being ripped-off
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