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New push to ease Sunday trading laws

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New push ease Sunday trading laws - Asda is spearhead another campaign change Sunday trading laws, demanding that restrictions opening times should be swept away for benefit of customers staff 'Heads roll'at ITV overphone scandal - ITV boss Michael Grade is expected sack 'several' senior executives over phone-in scandals that have rocked television industry over past six months



New push to ease Sunday trading laws  [08/27/2007 01:17 PM]
Asda is to spearhead another campaign to change Sunday trading laws, demanding that restrictions on opening times should be swept away for the benefit of customers and staff
'Heads to roll'at ITV overphone scandal  [08/27/2007 01:17 PM]
ITV boss Michael Grade is expected to sack 'several' senior executives over the phone-in scandals that have rocked the television industry over the past six months
A to Z of the Sunday newspapers  [08/27/2007 01:17 PM]
Here's our summary of what the Sunday broadsheets are reporting from the world of finance and business
Beware of iTunes card con  [08/27/2007 01:17 PM]
Credit card holders are being warned to be on their guard against the latest ploy by crooks - the 51p iTunes fraud.
Freeze charges, judge tells bank  [08/27/2007 01:17 PM]
A judge has ordered Barclays to freeze the penalty charges and interest on the account of a customer who has sued the bank for their return
Mobile giants hit out at EC  [08/27/2007 01:17 PM]
Mobile phone firms, including Vodafone, O2, T-Mobile and Orange, are poised to launch a legal attack on the European Commission over cuts on overseas charges
Tesco Direct scores with horse blankets  [08/27/2007 01:17 PM]
Tesco plans to raise the stakes in its assault on the non-food market by adding thousands of new products to its Tesco Direct website
Northern Rock stages subprime retreat  [08/27/2007 01:17 PM]
The High Street lender has raised interest charges on fixed-rate loans and scrapped its range of trackers for borrowers with a poor credit history
BMI flies empty in Heathrow bag chaos  [08/27/2007 01:17 PM]
BMI was forced to fly up to 10 empty planes from Heathrow this summer because the airport could not process passengers and baggage in time
BP chief Browne lands new top job  [08/27/2007 01:17 PM]
Four months after being forced to quit, the former BP has been appointed managing director of a US private equity firm's European arm
Cuts in City bonuses 'will hit house prices'  [08/27/2007 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
High Street banks face huge bailout bill  [08/27/2007 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 millions in emergency financing
Pay-as-you-throw will cut council tax  [08/27/2007 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
The flaw that threatens to break Branson  [08/27/2007 01:17 PM]
We seek him here, we seek him there. Where is that Richard Branson when Virgin Media, in which he remains the crucial shareholder, is engulfed in a costly and divisive boardroom maelstrom?
An elegant fix for house inflation  [08/27/2007 01:17 PM]
Nostalgia, as an idea, has been hijacked by those to whom it means women in Twenties dresses and men in white tie and tails
A Promise: We will fight for justice on claims  [08/27/2007 01:17 PM]
When it comes to paying insurance claims, some companies have a terrible record. Rather than pay up they go out of their way to avoid payment, irrespective of the heartache they cause
Hetherington: Debt collector who calls twice  [08/27/2007 01:17 PM]
Financial Mail's readers' champion on the case of a debt collector that likes to take payments twice.
Jelf hungry for minnows of the broking sector  [08/27/2007 01:17 PM]
The Mail on Sunday's share tipper Midas runs the rule over insurance broker Jelf and headhunter firm Hat Pin