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Power firms 'must end unfair pricing' [12/16/2008 01:17 PM]
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Energy regulator Ofgem today called for speedier action from suppliers to slash unfair pricing faced by poorer households who use pre-paid energy meters
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Falling fuel prices bring down inflation [12/16/2008 01:17 PM]
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The largest fall in fuel costs since records began helped bring annual UK inflation down to 4.1% last month from 4.5% in October, official figures showed today
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Stock market report: Tuesday latest [12/16/2008 01:17 PM]
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11.00:Shares in private-equity giant 3i hit the skids today, plunging to their lowest since floating 14 years ago
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UK firms lose £3.5bn to record fraudster [12/16/2008 01:17 PM]
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British-based firms have lost at least £3.5bn after they were sucked into the world's biggest financial fraud - and it is feared that families will pay the price
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Mandelson's Royal Mail sell-off [12/16/2008 01:17 PM]
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Foreign firms were vying to buy up large chunks of Royal Mail after it emerged that Lord Mandelson has drafted a £3bn plan to part-privatise the service
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Public sector pensions to see payments cut [12/16/2008 01:17 PM]
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A massive pensions blunder has seen one in 20 retired public sector workers paid a total £100m too much that must now be clawed back
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Sterling slumps further on rate cut hopes [12/16/2008 01:17 PM]
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Sterling again slumped against the euro and the dollar as traders bet that falling UK inflation will see further aggressive interest rate cuts
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Frank Field to lead revolt against VAT cut [12/16/2008 01:17 PM]
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Former minister Frank Field is to lead a surprise Labour rebellion against the Government's £12bn VAT cut
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Scarborough and Skipton doubly covered [12/16/2008 01:17 PM]
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Members of Scarborough and Skipton building societies will be doubly covered for savings compensation up following their merger next year
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Virgin speeds up broadband to a record 50Mb [12/16/2008 01:17 PM]
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Virgin Media has launched the fastest broadband connection in Britain, at 50Mb per second - about nine times faster than current connections
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Major: Give savers £5,000 tax break [12/16/2008 01:17 PM]
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Savers should get a tax break on the first £5,000 of income from their nesteggs to help them through the recession, Sir John Major has declared
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Battle to restore loans to business [12/16/2008 01:17 PM]
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Britain and Ireland yesterday stepped up their efforts to shore up their decaying banking systems as the credit drought worsens
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CBI: Cut 'eye-watering' public sector pensions [12/16/2008 01:17 PM]
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Britain's public sector pensions bill is approaching £915bn and is 'set to get much worse', the CBI has warned
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Christmas auction set to top £145,000 [12/16/2008 01:17 PM]
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The Evening Standard Christmas charity auction was set to raise more than £145,000 as bidding closed today
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West End theatre tickets resale site opens [12/16/2008 01:17 PM]
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Theatre-goers will be offered a ticket resale service, with caps on subsidised venue prices but commercial West End shows resold at any price
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They bought a dream, he Madoff with their money [12/16/2008 01:17 PM]
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This is no time for us to join euro [12/16/2008 01:17 PM]
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End of the hedge fund era [12/16/2008 01:17 PM]
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Hetherington: Licensed by the OFT...to cheat [12/16/2008 01:17 PM]
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£7bn taxpayer bail-out for post pensions? [12/16/2008 01:17 PM]
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Lord Mandelson is on a collision course with Labour MPs over the future of Royal Mail amid fears that he is preparing to partly privatise it
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