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Mortgages most expensive for 16 years - Homeowners are paying out largest proportion of earnings mortgage interest for 16 years - with lenders warning things will get even tougher for borrowers Home buyers at estate agent's window Food prices rise fastest 14 years - Rocketing food costs are hitting millions of householders already being punished by higher mortgages, utility bills transport costs Supermarket Basket



Mortgages most expensive for 16 years  [12/11/2007 01:17 PM]
Homeowners are paying out the largest proportion of earnings on mortgage interest for 16 years - with lenders warning things will get even tougher for borrowers Home buyers at estate agent's window
Food prices rise fastest in 14 years  [12/11/2007 01:17 PM]
Rocketing food costs are hitting millions of householders already being punished by higher mortgages, utility bills and transport costs Supermarket Basket
Market report: Tuesday latest  [12/11/2007 01:17 PM]
11.45:Several companies facing the chop from the FTSE 100 index were pulling out the stops today to try to retain their places ahead of tonight's deadline for the quarterly reshuffle Traders shouting
'Dead' Abbey customer is alive and well  [12/11/2007 01:17 PM]
Accident-probe Abbey has offered its condolences to the family of a perfectly healthy customer - the latest in a string of customer service failings by the bank Abbey branch
MPs may force through pensions rescue  [12/11/2007 01:17 PM]
Gordon Brown faces his first major backbench revolt unless he backs down over a bail-out for workers whose company pension schemes have collapsed Frank Field
Care at home faces big shake-up  [12/11/2007 01:17 PM]
Radical plans to revamp the welfare system - including handing cash to elderly and disabled people to choose their own care - have been unveiled Care
US poised for rate cut to head off recession  [12/11/2007 01:17 PM]
America's central bank, the Federal Reserve, is today expected to cut interest rates for the third time this year in a bid to stave off recession Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve Chairman.
New Star slashes UK property fund value  [12/11/2007 01:17 PM]
New Star Asset Management has cut the value of its hugely popular UK property fund by 8.2% - signalling an 18% markdown for the portfolio since the end of July London Skyline
Couple offer Eastern Europe dentists on the cheap  [12/11/2007 01:17 PM]
Two entrepreneurs are to recruit 1,000 dentists from Eastern Europe to help solve the crisis in Health Service provision Dentist
Bargains galore as slump hits High Street  [12/11/2007 01:17 PM]
Shoppers' hopes of a pre-Christmas bargain bonanza rose today after figures revealed the extent of the slowdown on the High Street Oxford St shoppers
Worry over Christmas pension payouts  [12/11/2007 01:17 PM]
Pensions and benefits will be paid on Christmas Eve this year - when most post offices will be open for only half a day Ken Wilson, Pension queues
Medicine price increases could hit NHS  [12/11/2007 01:17 PM]
The Office of Fair Trading today delivered a stark warning that the rapidly changing structure of the way medicines are sold could cost the NHS 'hundreds of millions of pounds'
Gnomes put to the sword  [12/11/2007 01:17 PM]
The UBS rescue deal is part of what is becoming a familiar tale: when Western banks have a problem - they turn to Sovereign Wealth Funds for assistance
30 second guide to bonus season  [12/11/2007 01:17 PM]
The Daily Mail City desk explains the rationale behind the City's big payouts during bonus season
Sharp but fairly short pain for property  [12/11/2007 01:17 PM]
In these days of world markets, a decision to switch from equities to property or vice versa can unleash tidal waves of money. Anthony Hilton predicts a 15% plunge for commercial property
Child support tangle and more BG blunders  [12/11/2007 01:17 PM]
Every week, Tony Hetherington replies to readers' letters, adding comments, advice and the results of his enquiries
Midas: ITE & Oxford Instruments  [12/11/2007 01:17 PM]
The Mail on Sunday's stock picker runs the rule over an events firm operating in Russia and and non-technology provider