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Storm over energy bill payment hikes - Britain's energy suppliers are sitting on a £4bn cash pile they have taken from customers' bank accounts without their consent



Storm over energy bill payment hikes  [11/23/2008 01:17 PM]
Britain's energy suppliers are sitting on a £4bn cash pile they have taken from customers' bank accounts without their consent
Pre-Budget report: Brown to unveil VAT cut  [11/23/2008 01:17 PM]
Gordon Brown will unveil a £20bn tax-and-spend giveaway including a cut in VAT to try to stop Britain's economy grinding to a halt
Market round-up: Insurers under the spotlight  [11/23/2008 01:17 PM]
Weekly market report: Big risers over the week were once again thin on the ground as the FTSE 100, dropped below the 4000 threshold
Stock market report: Friday close  [11/23/2008 01:17 PM]
17.00:It has been a good week for stock-market bears around the world. Today, they were cashing in their ill-gotten gains
Shop insurers signal High St collapses  [11/23/2008 01:17 PM]
Retail insurers are withdrawing cover amid fears that a slowdown in spending this Christmas will lead to a spate of high profile failures on the High St
Chancellor to delay repossession orders  [11/23/2008 01:17 PM]
The Chancellor will use his Pre-Budget Report to launch a massive effort to keep people in their homes as the recession hits
£4bn tax blow from housing market slump  [11/23/2008 01:17 PM]
The paralysed housing market will cost the Government £4bn in lost stamp duty revenues
M&S leads sales panic  [11/23/2008 01:17 PM]
Marks & Spencer, who slashed all prices by 20% in a one-day sale on Thursday, has revealed a startling slowdown in sales
Pre-Budget tax cuts will go down to the wire  [11/23/2008 01:17 PM]
Ahead of the pre-budget report on Monday, Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling clash over tax cuts in the face of huge government borrowing
Christmas overtime is axed for part-timers  [11/23/2008 01:17 PM]
The retail sector has shed the equivalent of 100,000 full-time workers as it cuts back on part-time staff this Christmas
'Banks bloodbath' as 350,000 face axe  [11/23/2008 01:17 PM]
The global financial services industry faces an even bigger bloodbath than previously anticipated with job cuts now expected to hit 350,000
Supermarkets slash petrol to under 90p  [11/23/2008 01:17 PM]
Motorists were handed a further boost at the pumps as Morrisons cut petrol to under 90 pence per litre
Can the Footsie end 2008 above 4000?  [11/23/2008 01:17 PM]
London shares have hit the skids again but can the market rebound to close above the all-important 4000 mark this year
Repossession hitting 125 families a day  [11/23/2008 01:17 PM]
The number of homeowners losing their home rose by 12% to 11,300 in the three months to September, according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders
Holidaymakers told to take enough cash  [11/23/2008 01:17 PM]
The Foreign Office has reminded Britons heading off for bargain winter breaks to make sure they have enough money, as more are forgetting they funds once they arrive
Petrol to fall to 83p as oil heads for $40  [11/23/2008 01:17 PM]
The price of a litre of petrol could fall below 85p by Christmas, after the cost of a barrel of oil fell to its lowest level for three years
Perils of a debt mountain  [11/23/2008 01:17 PM]
One of the busiest government agencies in the next few years is likely to be one of the least known - the UK Debt Management Office
Hold-up for the insurers' rally  [11/23/2008 01:17 PM]
Banks getting away with a regular swindle  [11/23/2008 01:17 PM]
Few options for Duffield to catch his falling Star  [11/23/2008 01:17 PM]
Midas share tips: Hargreaves and REH  [11/23/2008 01:17 PM]