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House prices spike in university towns [08/30/2008 01:17 PM]
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House prices in three university towns have more than doubled during the past five years, figures showed today
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Energy giants complete fuel price rises [08/30/2008 01:17 PM]
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Npower and Scottish Power have both hiked the price of gas and electricity for a second time this year, becoming the last of the big suppliers to raise prices
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Stock market week: Woe for Wimpey [08/30/2008 01:17 PM]
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Britain's biggest builder, Taylor Wimpey hit the headlines this week with the news that its profits had collapsed by a harsh 96% over the first half of 2008
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Crisis plan for property as crash feared [08/30/2008 01:17 PM]
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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%
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B&B crashes into red and bad debts rocket [08/30/2008 01:17 PM]
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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
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Give carers £110 a week wages, MPs demand [08/30/2008 01:17 PM]
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Relatives of the sick and elderly should be paid a salary of up to £110 a week for looking after them, MPs are demanding
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Thousands in chaos as Zoom is grounded [08/30/2008 01:17 PM]
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Hundreds of passengers have been stranded and tens of thousands more left with worthless tickets after the collapse of budget airline Zoom
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Organic food sales fall 20% [08/30/2008 01:17 PM]
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Organic food sales have slumped as families struggling with the credit crunch switch to cheaper groceries
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Mobile call receivers face charges [08/30/2008 01:17 PM]
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Mobile phone users face being charged to receive calls and texts under plans being considered by Ofcom
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Credit crunch pain hits £5m homes [08/30/2008 01:17 PM]
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The housing market collapse is spreading to central London as all but the very richest are hit by the credit crunch, says Knight Frank
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North-South divide 'widest for 60 years' [08/30/2008 01:17 PM]
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The North-South divide is now greater than at any time since the Second World War, according to new research
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Worst house prices fall for 18 years [08/30/2008 01:17 PM]
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The property market faces a full-scale collapse with house prices tumbling by more than 10% a year for the first time since 1990
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Two Abbey workers trousered £120,000 [08/30/2008 01:17 PM]
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Two bank workers stole thousands of pounds from cash machines by stuffing bundles of notes down their trousers
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High Street trading dive worst for 25 years [08/30/2008 01:17 PM]
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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
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Era of cheap energy over, warns minister [08/30/2008 01:17 PM]
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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
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MPC dove sounds '2m out of work' warning [08/30/2008 01:17 PM]
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Bank of England policymaker David Blanchflower has warned that 2m Brits could be out of work by Christmas and called for big rate cuts
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Buy-to-let failure rate doubles in a year [08/30/2008 01:17 PM]
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Soaring numbers of buy-to-let landlords are struggling to pay their loans or having their properties repossessed, figures have revealed
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Set Spottiswoode on the with-profits con [08/30/2008 01:17 PM]
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UK economy: Darling to get out red pen [08/30/2008 01:17 PM]
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Hetherington: £47,000 for shares worth just £100? [08/30/2008 01:17 PM]
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