Finance Articles


£600m voucher plan to help poor buy fuel

Home  Aug, 2008

£600m voucher plan to help poor buy fuel - Britain's poorest families are in line for Government vouchers worth between £50 and £100 to help meet soaring fuel bills



£600m voucher plan to help poor buy fuel  [08/15/2008 01:17 PM]
Britain's poorest families are in line for Government vouchers worth between £50 and £100 to help meet soaring fuel bills
Merrill uses US losses to dodge UK tax  [08/15/2008 01:17 PM]
Merrill Lynch might not pay any corporation tax for the next 60 years, after it emerged the bank plans to dump sub-prime losses on its UK arm
Market report: Friday latest  [08/15/2008 01:17 PM]
12.00:Shares in the London Stock Exchange opened nervously today as dealers marked the start of business in Turquoise, a new trading platform
UK recession threat as eurozone enters downturn  [08/15/2008 01:17 PM]
Fears for the health of the UK economy intensified today, as figures emerged suggesting that the slowdown is taking the rest of Europe close to recession
Cost of looking after parents 'will be £60,000'  [08/15/2008 01:17 PM]
Rising care costs mean a generation may have to eat into their own savings to support ageing parents, says a report
Supermarkets start milk price war  [08/15/2008 01:17 PM]
The price of milk has been slashed as supermarkets begin a new price war to cut millions of pounds from shopping bills
US interest rates hit by inflation fears  [08/15/2008 01:17 PM]
American interest rates are looking dangerously low in the wake of an alarming set of inflation numbers
Family holiday is £400 more than last year  [08/15/2008 01:17 PM]
Holidays are being hit with a double whammy of soaring prices and a dearth of late getaway deals
BA seals tie-up with American and Iberia  [08/15/2008 01:17 PM]
British Airways and would-be Spanish partner Iberia today paved the way for a transatlantic joint venture with giant US carrier American Airlines
Don't dither, business chiefs tell Darling  [08/15/2008 01:17 PM]
London business leaders today urged Alistair Darling not to dither over acting to prop up Britain's ailing economy
Criminal gangs in new chip and Pin fraud  [08/15/2008 01:17 PM]
Criminals have come up with a new fraud targeting the chip and Pin cards used by shop and petrol station customers across the country
'Illegal' stockbroker shut down by FSA  [08/15/2008 01:17 PM]
Stockbroker Treadstone has been permanently banned from operating. It follows investigations by This is Money and Financial Mail
War and weather to boost petrol prices  [08/15/2008 01:17 PM]
Motorists face another huge rise in petrol and diesel prices, with predictions of a return to last month's record prices
Freeview boxes 'obsolete' after upgrade  [08/15/2008 01:17 PM]
Almost a quarter of a million televisions across Britain have gone blank after a Freeview upgrade left some digital equipment obsolete
Britannia pays as mortgage arrears soar  [08/15/2008 01:17 PM]
Britain's second-biggest building society has admitted a profits slump due to the rising numbers of people falling into mortgage arrears
NS&I posts record year of sales  [08/15/2008 01:17 PM]
National Savings & Investments' strongest ever year of sales shows how many UK savers flew to safety following the Northern Rock fallout
Crunch shows need for compensation rethink  [08/15/2008 01:17 PM]
So you think Obama is a reformer. Dream on  [08/15/2008 01:17 PM]
Midas share tips: The FTSE Dogs  [08/15/2008 01:17 PM]
The sick men of Europe  [08/15/2008 01:17 PM]
Hetherington: You've invested in fool's gold  [08/15/2008 01:17 PM]