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Europe to end TV phone-in quizzes [08/05/2007 01:17 PM]
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Britain's beleaguered phone-in quiz show industry faces the axe thanks to an imminent court decision, with the European courts due to bring an end to the shows
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What now for bank charges? [08/05/2007 01:17 PM]
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Banks last week announced £21bn half-year profits, but a bank charges test case has left customers in limbo with extortionate charges still being applied. Helen Loveless investigates
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Market report: Friday close [08/05/2007 01:17 PM]
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17:00:Shares of Mike Ashleys Sports Direct, floated at 300p back in February, have been falling ever since. Today they closed at 143½p as another broker predicted another fall
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Fidelity makes company pensions plea [08/05/2007 01:17 PM]
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Fidelity International will call on Gordon Brown for an urgent change in the law to save what is left of Britain's envied system of final salary works pensions
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New risk for troubled firms [08/05/2007 01:17 PM]
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Attempts to rescue troubled companies and save jobs are facing sabotage by a new breed of creditor with a vested interest in the firms' liquidation
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Floods send home insurance bills up 10% [08/05/2007 01:17 PM]
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A leading insurer is to send house insurance premiums soaring by about 10% in the wake of last month's floods
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The middle class money boom [08/05/2007 01:17 PM]
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Middle class families have seen their earnings rise at double the rate of increases in living costs in 10 years. Average income is now £36,000
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Energy firms cleared to lock in customers [08/05/2007 01:17 PM]
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The official regulator has given gas and electricity companies the green light to tie consumers into contracts that prevent them from switching
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Fresh furore over 'impossible' Sports Direct [08/05/2007 01:17 PM]
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Two scathing reports from senior City analysts have further damaged the battered credibility of Mike Ashley's Sports Direct empire
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RBS-NatWest surges to record profits [08/05/2007 01:17 PM]
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Royal Bank of Scotland, owner of NatWest and Churchill, saw its first half profits rise to a record £5.1bn despite hits from reclaimed bank charges and floods
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Insolvenices fall but 8m still struggling [08/05/2007 01:17 PM]
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The number of Britons declared bankrupt has dropped again, and experts predict
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Post Office bosses accused of dirty tricks [08/05/2007 01:17 PM]
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Post Office bosses turned to blackmail and spying to make sub-postmasters co-operate with their closure programme
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Hips could harm traditional homes [08/05/2007 01:17 PM]
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Home Information Packs threaten to destroy the character of traditional homes, English Heritage has warned - urging homeowners not to destroy properties' character to turn them green
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£50m cost of staff with that 'friday feeling' [08/05/2007 01:17 PM]
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British business is losing more than £50m a year because employees are skipping off work on Friday afternoons
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Struggle to keep talent as skills shortage bites [08/05/2007 01:17 PM]
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A shortage of skilled workers has sparked a war for talent in the Square Mile with firms bidding against each other for the best staff
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Midas: New dogs off to poor start [08/05/2007 01:17 PM]
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Three months ago the Midas Dogs of the Footsie was begun again from scratch, so how are the stocks faring?
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Hetherington: Gas bills from bullies [08/05/2007 01:17 PM]
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Financial Mail's ace investigator takes on British Gas' widespread failings and says the firm's actions are akin to demanding money with menaces
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We lost the plot on farming [08/05/2007 01:17 PM]
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Food prices are on the up highlighting the importance of maintaining Britain's agriculture in the face of tough pressures
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Dreams are real return on Premium Bonds [08/05/2007 01:17 PM]
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Premium Bonds may not deliver the greatest retrun on investment but they do bring one thing most other financial products fail to - the dream of a life-changing event
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Get a grip by break BAA's hold [08/05/2007 01:17 PM]
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The chorus of outrage at the atrocious standards at Heathrow will not go away until the virtual monopoly controlled by BAA, now in the ownership of Spain's Ferrovial, is dismembered
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Small cap share tips: IBS Opensystems [08/05/2007 01:17 PM]
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Our small caps experts reveal the Aim stocks that are set to fly or dive. This week IBS is a strong buybut steer clear of Corero
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