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Abbey tops league of rip-off fees

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Abbey tops league of rip-off fees - Bank customers charged fees have paid an average of £742 'illegal' penalties over past six years, was claimed today Nationwide warns of house-prices danger - House prices will suffer if financial markets do not recover soon from credit-crisis turmoil, Britain's biggest building society warned today



Abbey tops league of rip-off fees  [08/30/2007 01:17 PM]
Bank customers charged fees have paid an average of £742 in 'illegal' penalties over the past six years, it was claimed today
Nationwide warns of house-prices danger  [08/30/2007 01:17 PM]
House prices will suffer if financial markets do not recover soon from the credit-crisis turmoil, Britain's biggest building society warned today
Market report: Thursday latest  [08/30/2007 01:17 PM]
13.00:Share trading in London got off to a flying start today, which only served to add to recent volatility
BAA misled customers on prices  [08/30/2007 01:17 PM]
BAA has been forced to drop claims that customers 'won't pay a penny more' in airport bars and shops than in their local high street
£250,000 fraudster stole sister's life  [08/30/2007 01:17 PM]
A jealous woman has been jailed after stealing her successful sister's identity in a £250,000 scam to buy a bigger house and land a new job
House prices rise slowest for a year  [08/30/2007 01:17 PM]
House prices in England and Wales edged ahead by just 0.1% during July - the slowest increase for more than a year - according to offiicial figures
The 3m homes where no one works  [08/30/2007 01:17 PM]
The number of households in which nobody works for a living rose to more than three million this summer, official figures revealed yesterday
Banks clawing back lost penalty fees  [08/30/2007 01:17 PM]
Banks have introduced a raft of new charges after being banned from using 'unfair and illegal' penalty fees to boost their profits
Property giants feel chill in credit crisis  [08/30/2007 01:17 PM]
One of Britain's biggest office and warehouse developers warned today the UK commercial property market is feeling the effects of the global credit crunch
Nokia download store to take a bite out of Apple  [08/30/2007 01:17 PM]
Nokia today sparked a high street price war by announcing it is to launch a music download store
Portman members get £445 windfall  [08/30/2007 01:17 PM]
Members of the Portman building society will finally get windfalls averaging £445 each after Nationwide yesterday completed its takeover of the pint-sized mutual
HSBC rapped over misleading ad  [08/30/2007 01:17 PM]
HSBC has been criticised for wrongly claiming that some of customers would not be charged for withdrawing cash abroad
Boardroom bonanza as fat-cat pay soars  [08/30/2007 01:17 PM]
As their staff received rises of just 4%, directors of leading firms saw their earnings rocket, with chief executives on an average of £3m
HSBC suffers Facebook-led student revolt  [08/30/2007 01:17 PM]
HSBC is facing an internet revolt from increasingly angry graduates who have had their interest-free overdrafts scrapped
City bonuses soar to record £14bn  [08/30/2007 01:17 PM]
City bonuses have risen 30% in a year - twice as big as 2006 and further widening the gap between executive and normal pay
More than 60% of homes online  [08/30/2007 01:17 PM]
The growth of internet access as a household necessity has been highlighted by new figures showing that 61% of all UK households are now online
Retail blow as bank holiday sales slump  [08/30/2007 01:17 PM]
Retailers look to have endured one of the slowest August bank holidays for years, prompting fears that uncertainty in financial markets may be feeding into the wider economy
Gas-guzzler drivers face £5,000 C-charge bills  [08/30/2007 01:17 PM]
Up to 30,000 drivers will be hit with congestion charge bills of £5,000 a year under new plans to target 'gas-guzzlers'
Debt masters feel the pain  [08/30/2007 01:17 PM]
After all the attention on Barclays in recent days it was almost inevitable that its rival for ABN Amro, Royal Bank of Scotland, would come into focus too
An elegant fix for house inflation  [08/30/2007 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
Midas share tips: Jelf and Hat Pin  [08/30/2007 01:17 PM]
The Mail on Sunday's share tipper Midas runs the rule over insurance broker Jelf and headhunter firm Hat Pin
30 second guide to mark to market  [08/30/2007 01:17 PM]
The Daily Mail City Team examine mark to market