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Thames Water faces £12m fine [09/29/2007 01:17 PM]
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Thames Water could be fined £12½m for reporting and customer service failings under proposals announced by water services watchdog Ofwat today
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Rock faces storm after £40m divi payout [09/29/2007 01:17 PM]
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Northern Rock paid dividends to preference shareholders just days before cancelling payments to ordinary shareholders, it was revealed today
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Market report: Friday close [09/29/2007 01:17 PM]
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17:00:A ripple of excitement went through the Square Mile today on talk that reinsuranxce broker Benfield has received a bid approach from Goldman Sachs
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Tate & Lyle crashes 30% on profit fears [09/29/2007 01:17 PM]
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The City gave sugars group Tate & Lyle a caning today after the group came out with its fourth profits alert in nine months
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Bank 'may have to cut interest rates' [09/29/2007 01:17 PM]
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The Bank of England may need to cut interest rates to shore up flagging economic growth in the face of a housing slowdown and turmoil in the markets
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Rock bail-out loan balloons to £7.75bn [09/29/2007 01:17 PM]
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Northern Rock's emergency loan from the Bank of England has ballooned to an eyewatering £7.75bn
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New fuel duty sends diesel up to £1 a litre [09/29/2007 01:17 PM]
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Motorists with diesel cars face paying £1 a litre at the pumps for the first time on Monday, a motoring organisation warned todayto send diesel up to £1 a litre
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Tesco's British lamb that isn't [09/29/2007 01:17 PM]
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Tesco is to change the labelling on its 'British slow-cooked lamb shanks' after a customer spotted the meat was from New Zealand
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Millions must pay more into their pensions [09/29/2007 01:17 PM]
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Contribution levels to most pension schemes are too low to provide a decent income during retirement, workers were warned today
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House prices shrug off the credit crunch [09/29/2007 01:17 PM]
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Property prices are rising at their fastest in three months as the market shrugs off the global credit crunch and higher rates
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US house sales take a 21% dive [09/29/2007 01:17 PM]
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Sales of US homes plunged in August, raising concerns for prospects for the British property market
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Fewer mortgages approved in August [09/29/2007 01:17 PM]
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Mortgage approvals for UK home purchase fell 14.2% in August compared with a year ago, indicating that housing demand was weakening even before the financial problems in September
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Firms run a £4bn 'protection racket' [09/29/2007 01:17 PM]
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Shops, banks and finance companies are running a multi-billion pound loans 'protection racket' by deceiving customers, a City watchdog said yesterday
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Jittery banks shun £10bn bailout cash [09/29/2007 01:17 PM]
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The Bank of England has warned the credit squeeze is to get worse, yet today's unprecedented auction of £10bn for banks found absolutely no takers
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Lloyd's hopes to dodge hurriances [09/29/2007 01:17 PM]
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Members of Lloyd's of London will be crossing their fingers that they come through hurricane season unscathed
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GMTV fined £2m for viewer phone-in scam [09/29/2007 01:17 PM]
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GMTV was fined £2 million today, the largest penalty imposed against a broadcaster, for duping biewers into paying to enter a competition they could not win
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Industry chief blasts Bank over crisis [09/29/2007 01:17 PM]
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The run on the Northern Rock has made Britain look like a 'banana republic', the boss of the Confederation of British Industry said last night
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Homebuyers 'told to lie about salary' [09/29/2007 01:17 PM]
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More evidence has emerged that unscrupulous brokers are encouraging homebuyers to lie with some borrowers getting mortgages up to eight times salary
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Mortgage availability 'unchanged by credit crisis' [09/29/2007 01:17 PM]
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Mortgage lenders said today that the availability of home loans for consumers should not be affected by the current turmoil in global credit markets
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Nationwide admits Isa backlog persists [09/29/2007 01:17 PM]
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Nationwide has admitted experiencing continued delays with Isa transfers even though it had promised the problem was solved
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High court shuts down boiler rooms [09/29/2007 01:17 PM]
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Two UK firms that were pushing unsuspecting investors into the hands of boiler rooms in Gibralter have been shut down by the industry watchdog
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House price cracks are showing [09/29/2007 01:17 PM]
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Don't seize upon the surprise rise in September house prices as proof that the consumer has shrugged off the credit crisis
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30 second guide to... Lloyd's of London [09/29/2007 01:17 PM]
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The Daily Mail City team delves into the past of Lloyd's of London
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