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Brown's crisis plan for homeowners - PM Gordon Brown is drafting emergency plans to help homeowners and first-time buyers amid fresh warnings house prices could fall by more than 30%



Brown's crisis plan for homeowners  [08/29/2008 01:17 PM]
PM Gordon Brown is drafting emergency plans to help homeowners and first-time buyers amid fresh warnings house prices could fall by more than 30%
Thousands in chaos as Zoom is grounded  [08/29/2008 01:17 PM]
Hundreds of passengers have been stranded and tens of thousands more left with worthless tickets after the collapse of budget airline Zoom
Market report: Friday latest  [08/29/2008 01:17 PM]
12.30:The FTSE 100 is expected to open 6 to 11 points higher on Friday, according to financial bookmakers, with energy shares in focus
B&B crashes into red and bad debts rocket  [08/29/2008 01:17 PM]
The scale of the job facing new B&B boss Richard Pym was underlined today as the troubled lender crashed into the red and reported soaring bad debts
Give carers £110 a week wages, MPs demand  [08/29/2008 01:17 PM]
Relatives of the sick and elderly should be paid a salary of up to £110 a week for looking after them, MPs are demanding
Mobile call receivers face charges  [08/29/2008 01:17 PM]
Mobile phone users face being charged to receive calls and texts under plans being considered by Ofcom
Organic food sales fall 20%  [08/29/2008 01:17 PM]
Organic food sales have slumped as families struggling with the credit crunch switch to cheaper groceries
Two Abbey workers trousered £120,000  [08/29/2008 01:17 PM]
Two bank workers stole thousands of pounds from cash machines by stuffing bundles of notes down their trousers
Credit crunch pain hits £5m homes  [08/29/2008 01:17 PM]
The housing market collapse is spreading to central London as all but the very richest are hit by the credit crunch, says Knight Frank
North-South divide 'widest for 60 years'  [08/29/2008 01:17 PM]
The North-South divide is now greater than at any time since the Second World War, according to new research
Worst house prices fall for 18 years  [08/29/2008 01:17 PM]
The property market faces a full-scale collapse with house prices tumbling by more than 10% a year for the first time since 1990
High Street trading dive worst for 25 years  [08/29/2008 01:17 PM]
The High Street suffered its worst trading in a quarter of a century this month as wet weather and creaking household finances put off shoppers
MPC dove sounds '2m out of work' warning  [08/29/2008 01:17 PM]
Bank of England policymaker David Blanchflower has warned that 2m Brits could be out of work by Christmas and called for big rate cuts
Era of cheap energy over, warns minister  [08/29/2008 01:17 PM]
A senior Cabinet minister has declared an end to cheap energy, while hinting hard-up households could be getting an inceased winter fuel hand-out
Britain 'is facing an 18-month recession'  [08/29/2008 01:17 PM]
Britain is facing a recession that will last 18 months, says leading consultancy Capital Economics
Buy-to-let failure rate doubles in a year  [08/29/2008 01:17 PM]
Soaring numbers of buy-to-let landlords are struggling to pay their loans or having their properties repossessed, figures have revealed
Set Spottiswoode on the with-profits con  [08/29/2008 01:17 PM]
UK economy: Darling to get out red pen  [08/29/2008 01:17 PM]
Hetherington: £47,000 for shares worth just £100?  [08/29/2008 01:17 PM]