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Pay-as-you-throw will cut council tax

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Pay-as-you-throw will cut council tax - Council tax will be cut if 'pay-as-you-throw' charges rubbish collection are introduced, town hall chiefs promised, but are fears will raise fly-tipping US targets BA chiefs price-fixing probe - Ten senior executives British Airways face possible criminal investigation US over recent fuel surcharges price-fixing scandal



Pay-as-you-throw will cut council tax  [08/23/2007 01:17 PM]
Council tax will be cut if 'pay-as-you-throw' charges on rubbish collection are introduced, town hall chiefs promised, but there are fears it will raise fly-tipping
US targets BA chiefs in price-fixing probe  [08/23/2007 01:17 PM]
Ten senior executives in British Airways face a possible criminal investigation in the US over the recent fuel surcharges price-fixing scandal
Market report: Thursday latest  [08/23/2007 01:17 PM]
12:30Shares generally opened on another positive note, with investors taking their lead from strong performances on Wall Street last night
Debt mountain triples to £1.3 trillion  [08/23/2007 01:17 PM]
Britain's debt mountain has nearly tripled over the past decade and now exceeds the total size of the economy
High Street banks face huge bailout bill  [08/23/2007 01:17 PM]
Major banks face having to deploy massive sums from their balance sheets after the UK's biggest mortgage lender was forced to find £310m in emergency financing
Silver surfers are the real web wizards  [08/23/2007 01:17 PM]
Over-65s surfing the internet are spending more time online than young people less than half their age
Cuts in City bonuses 'will hit house prices'  [08/23/2007 01:17 PM]
City bankers will see their annual bonuses slashed by as much as 20% this year as the turmoil in financial markets hits them in the pocket
Home information packs hit by new fiasco  [08/23/2007 01:17 PM]
Mortgage lenders are telling homebuyers they will have to pay for their own property searches because they do not trust the new Hips
Markets calmer after false alarm  [08/23/2007 01:17 PM]
Calm appeared to be returning to global stock markets today after a tumultuous two weeks of panic selling around the world, with fears over a £314m bank loan a false alarm
Ryanair fury over advert ban  [08/23/2007 01:17 PM]
Ryanair today hit back at 'stupid' advertising watchdogs and attacked Eurostar rail services as 'a waste of time and money'
One in six soon to be on a debts blacklist  [08/23/2007 01:17 PM]
The global credit crunch will see a sharp rise in the number of Britons put on a debt blacklist and denied mortgages, loans and credit cards, experts claim
£5m lotto winner wished on a star  [08/23/2007 01:17 PM]
A shooting star raced across the night sky as Paul Hardware and his son Matthew strolled out of their local snooker club
Cars lose half their value in first year  [08/23/2007 01:17 PM]
Some of Britain's most popular cars can lose almost half their value in the first year of ownership, a survey out today showed
Tycoon abandons Maserati in car pound  [08/23/2007 01:17 PM]
A City tycoon who ran up thousands of pounds of motoring fines abandoned his £80,000 supercar in a pound for three months - because he was too busy to collect it
ChoicesUK collapse could cost 1,650 jobs  [08/23/2007 01:17 PM]
Video-rental chain ChoicesUK bowed to the inevitable today, admitting it will go into administration with the potential loss of 1,650 jobs
Interflora website 'rips off' customers  [08/23/2007 01:17 PM]
Flower delivery firm Interflora was accused today of ripping off consumers over the internet
Virgin Media boss in shock resignation  [08/23/2007 01:17 PM]
Virgin Media Chief Executive Steve Burch has stood down with immediate effect citing family reasons, in the latest blow to hit the troubled British cable operator
Travel claims soar after BA baggage mess  [08/23/2007 01:17 PM]
Travel insurance claims for lost luggage have soared in the wake of the British Airways baggage crisis that has left a backlog of 22,000 bags
The great cover-up  [08/23/2007 01:17 PM]
Just as you thought the endowment mis-selling scandal might be drawing to a close, another aspect has reared its head
Miners shrug off debt woes  [08/23/2007 01:17 PM]
Looking at the wild gyrations in the miners' stock prices this month, you'd be forgiven for thinking that America's trailer park dwellers were their biggest customers
30 second guide to commercial paper  [08/23/2007 01:17 PM]
The Daily Mail City Team explain commercial paper