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Gas bills will rocket 30% within weeks - British Gas is expected to hit customers with a record price rise of more than 30% within weeks - and other energy groups are set to follow



Gas bills will rocket 30% within weeks  [07/20/2008 01:17 PM]
British Gas is expected to hit customers with a record price rise of more than 30% within weeks - and other energy groups are set to follow
Bank should 'ignore prices in rates decisions'  [07/20/2008 01:17 PM]
Alistair Darling should issue emergency guidance to the Bank of England to ignore the huge rises in food and fuel prices when setting interest rates, according to the Item Club
MPs face Equitable action call  [07/20/2008 01:17 PM]
Equitable Life customers will be urged to write to MPs demanding they pressure the Government to accept the Parliamentary Ombudsman's findings that they receive compensation
Rock driving 'whistle blower' to the brink of suicide  [07/20/2008 01:17 PM]
A former Northern Rock employee says he has been driven to the brink of suicide after the failed bank accused him of blowing the whistle on its fat cat culture
Rigged quizzes earn GMTV £5m a year  [07/20/2008 01:17 PM]
Breakfast TV station GMTV made more than £5 million a year from rigged premium-rate phone-in competitions, latest accounts reveal
So, farewell to prudence  [07/20/2008 01:17 PM]
Commentary:All those Gordon Brown lectures about an end to 'boom and bust' and the triumph of stability are looking threadbare, writes Daily Mail City Editor Alex Brummer
Shop sales hurt by poor customer service  [07/20/2008 01:17 PM]
Hard-pressed High Street retailers could increase sales by as much as 50% by appointing good store managers and improving the quality of customer service
Unions' pension demand  [07/20/2008 01:17 PM]
Trade unions want the gigantic £125bn Local Government Pension Scheme to stop investing in private equity funds
Return of the great British holiday resort  [07/20/2008 01:17 PM]
The money men are rushing to the seaside - and one firm is even offering a £150,000 bounty for a tip-off about new hotel sites
Market towns beat the neighbours  [07/20/2008 01:17 PM]
Home buyers hoping to beat a house price slump should opt for traditional England - with more than half of market towns outperforming neighbours
The week of the dead cat bounce  [07/20/2008 01:17 PM]
Investment correspondent Philip Scott rounds up news from the stock market and this week's risers and fallers
Bank warns inflation to crash through 4%  [07/20/2008 01:17 PM]
Mervyn King's number two at the Bank of England declared today that inflation will accelerate to 'well over' 4%
BBC to cut licence fee after digital switch  [07/20/2008 01:17 PM]
The TV licence fee will be reduced in 2013 once the digital switchover has been completed, Ofcom said last night
Mortgages tumble 21% as buyers stay put  [07/20/2008 01:17 PM]
The mortgage crunch has seen lending in the traditional spring home buying period tumble by a fifth year-on-year
Borrowing to surge as Brown moves goalposts  [07/20/2008 01:17 PM]
Gordon Brown's economic credibility is under fire as never before after it emerged that his flagship fiscal rules will be scrapped later this year
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