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Cost of hospital phone calls is slashed [08/07/2007 01:17 PM]
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Controversial hospital phone and TV service provider Patientline has bowed to public hostility and cut the prices patients pay for making calls
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Standard Life shuns Resolution battle [08/07/2007 01:17 PM]
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Standard Life today effectively ruled itself out of barging into the £8.6bn merger between its rivals Friends Provident and Resolution Life
>> Standard Life: News, views and analysis
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Market report: Tuesday latest [08/07/2007 01:17 PM]
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13.00:Share prices bounced back from yesterday's losses, supported by big gains on Wall Street overnight
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Six-week wait to get bags back from BA [08/07/2007 01:17 PM]
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A holidaymaker is still waiting to be reunited with her luggage 43 days after airport staff lost it somewhere between Spain and Britain
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World lottery with a £250m jackpot [08/07/2007 01:17 PM]
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Camelot plans to launch a global prize draw after being named today as winner of the licence to run the National Lottery for another 10 years
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Gamblers are dicing with debt [08/07/2007 01:17 PM]
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Some 21% of gambling in the UK is funded via debt or by diving into personal savings according to a new report
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Student landlords beating buy-to-let [08/07/2007 01:17 PM]
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Landlords who rent out properties to students are making better returns than the rest of the buy-to-let market - and Durham is the most lucrative town
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Retailers warn as interest rates bite [08/07/2007 01:17 PM]
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Britain's retailers are worried about the impact of another interest rate rise as summer rain and a rising bank rate took their toll in July
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Banks under fire for new-listings debacle [08/07/2007 01:17 PM]
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Investors in new stock market listings run by Merrill Lynch have lost a staggering £1.6bn this year, figures show today
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Property prices 'to soar 40% by 2012' [08/07/2007 01:17 PM]
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House prices will rise 40% over the next five years, making the average property worth more than £300,000, it is claimed today
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EMI sees CD revenue plunge 20% [08/07/2007 01:17 PM]
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Music label EMI signalled a further sharp decline in the popularity of the traditional CD today as it said revenues from the format had dropped by nearly a fifth
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Brits have 52m old mobiles lying around [08/07/2007 01:17 PM]
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Britons are collectively hoarding more than 52m unused mobile phones worth £1.1bn, research showed today
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More pensioners living in poverty [08/07/2007 01:17 PM]
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Average income from company pension schemes fell last year while the number of elderly people living in poverty rose, official figures show
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Post Office hush money for branch mergers [08/07/2007 01:17 PM]
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Post Office bosses were accused of a second blackmail after staff were offered £1,000 bonuses to keep quiet about branch mergers
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What now for bank charges? [08/07/2007 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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Chemical giant's final blow [08/07/2007 01:17 PM]
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No one can accuse the Imperial Chemical Industries board of selling out as the latest offer from Akzo Nobel values the chemical and paints group at £8bn
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30 second guide to...offer documents [08/07/2007 01:17 PM]
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The Daily Mail City Team examine the details of offer documents
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Dreams are real return on Premium Bonds [08/07/2007 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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Midas: New dogs portfolio off to poor start [08/07/2007 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: British Gas bullying and travel insurance failures [08/07/2007 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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