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£353m Standard Life shrugs off turmoil [09/04/2007 01:17 PM]
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Turmoil in financial markets is having barely any effect on long-term investors' plans, Scottish life assurer Standard Life said today
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Supermarkets fail to act on plastic bags [09/04/2007 01:17 PM]
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Six months after promising to cut their use of plastic bags, two supermarket chains are actually using more of them to deliver groceries
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Market report: Tuesday latest [09/04/2007 01:17 PM]
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12.15:Efforts by Alliance & Leicester to reassure investors about its exposure to the subprime mortgage collapse have fallen on deaf ears in some parts of the Square Mile
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Town centres freezing out small shops [09/04/2007 01:17 PM]
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The drive to modernise unsightly town centres is hastening the demise of the local shop, groups representing small businesses warned
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Thousands more women sue for equal pay [09/04/2007 01:17 PM]
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The number of employment tribunal claims has soared to record levels as low-paid women lodge claims for pay equality
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Card that could kill off loose change [09/04/2007 01:17 PM]
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The days of rummaging for coins to buy a coffee or a newspaper could be numbered as a new generation of contactless cards is launched
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Apple launches widescreen iPod [09/04/2007 01:17 PM]
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Apple will launch its sixth-generation iPod tomorrow, which experts expect to have a wide screen for users to watch downloaded movies and TV shows
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£1m prize for 'first time' Premium Bond [09/04/2007 01:17 PM]
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A Premium Bond bought just weeks ago has recorded one of the fastest-ever jackpot wins, scooping £1m at the first attempt
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£75m house was £32m five weeks ago [09/04/2007 01:17 PM]
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The second-largest house in London after Buckingham Palace, bought for £32m five weeks ago, has gone back on the market with an asking price of £75m
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The home that eBay built [09/04/2007 01:17 PM]
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How a family saved £40,000 by furnishing their 300-year-old cottage almost entirely with second-hand items bought on eBay
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Big retailers 'pay 13p an hour' in India [09/04/2007 01:17 PM]
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Two major British high street retailers have launched inquiries into allegations that workers producing clothes are being exploited
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Families due £500m tax-credit refund [09/04/2007 01:17 PM]
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Families who were forced to give back overpaid tax credits are to have up to £500m returned to them following another blunder by the Government
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'Sell and rent back' exploiting debt-laden [09/04/2007 01:17 PM]
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Homeowners facing repossession are being exploited by 'sell and rent back' schemes, with Citizens Advice calling for extra protection
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BT winning broadband race [09/04/2007 01:17 PM]
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BT now has more than 4m customers signed up to its broadband service - adding more than 2,000 per day voer the past five years
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Happiness is a town called Beverley [09/04/2007 01:17 PM]
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Yorkshire medieval market town Beverley has been named the best value-for-money town in Britain, enjoying an 'affluent lifestyle' at affordable prices
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Bank under fire after market turmoil [09/04/2007 01:17 PM]
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The Bank of England faces mounting pressure to reveal more about its emergency lending after cryptic statements about multi-billion pound loans caused market turmoil
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A to Z of the Sunday newspapers [09/04/2007 01:17 PM]
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Here's our summary of what the Sunday broadsheets are reporting from the world of finance and business
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Small cap share tips: Goals Soccer Centres [09/04/2007 01:17 PM]
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Our small caps experts reveal the Aim stocks that are set to fly or dive. This week Goals Soccer Centres and Amiad Filtration Systems
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30 second guide to the Financial Stability Forum [09/04/2007 01:17 PM]
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The Daily Mail City Team look at the financial stability forum
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Sarko nationalising Suez [09/04/2007 01:17 PM]
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The French love affair with president Nicolas Sarkozy continues but his modernist pretensions have been dealt a fatal blow by the Gaz de France stitch-up
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Hetherington: Shares con cost £30,000 [09/04/2007 01:17 PM]
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Ace investigator Tony Hetherington deals with a shares con that cost a reader almost £30,000 and a cash bond wrongly paid out
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How the public paid for prosperity [09/04/2007 01:17 PM]
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After a ten-year daydream, people have woken up to the fact that the prosperity on which the Government has preened itself has been financed by their own borrowings
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Caution needed to beat fraudsters [09/04/2007 01:17 PM]
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Unless my memory serves me incorrectly, writes Financial Mail's personal finance editor, I have never been a customer of NatWest but that didn't stop a dodgy email trying to steal my details
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