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British Gas 10% cut to start gas price war - About 7.5m homes should see a £79 drop in their gas bills after British Gas cut prices by 10%, a move which other energy providers are expected to follow



British Gas 10% cut to start gas price war  [01/22/2009 01:17 PM]
About 7.5m homes should see a £79 drop in their gas bills after British Gas cut prices by 10%, a move which other energy providers are expected to follow
Home repossessions almost double  [01/22/2009 01:17 PM]
The number of people who lost their homes nearly doubled during the third quarter of last year, the City watchdog said today
Stock market report: Thursday latest  [01/22/2009 01:17 PM]
11.30:Shares bounced back on the London stock market today, providing investors with something to cheer about for a change
Anger across G7 as sterling keeps sliding  [01/22/2009 01:17 PM]
Britain faces protests from top trading partners next month as the pound's relentless slide continues
Morrisons beats rivals with 8.2% sales jump  [01/22/2009 01:17 PM]
WM Morrison has emerging as the best performing supermarket chain over Christmas thanks to soaring sales of organic and value produce
Ministers 'failed to spot the dangers of credit boom  [01/22/2009 01:17 PM]
Gordon Brown failed to spot that the housing and credit boom was 'fraught with systemic risk', the City's financial watchdog has suggested
Train firms 'facing financial difficulties'  [01/22/2009 01:17 PM]
Some of Britain's rail firms are facing financial difficulties because of the economic downturn, a senior civil servant has warned
Russian billionaire buys Evening Standard  [01/22/2009 01:17 PM]
London's Evening Standard newspaper has been acquired from the Daily Mail and General Trust by the Russian billionaire businessman Alexander Lebedev
Northern Rock staff in £9m bonus day  [01/22/2009 01:17 PM]
Northern Rock will tomorrow lavish £9m in bonuses on its staff - simply for repaying part of its bail-out loan from the Government on time
Interest rates could drop to just 1%  [01/22/2009 01:17 PM]
Interest rates look set to be slashed to a record low next month after the Bank of England revealed unanimous support for the last cut
Web woes as eBay is hit by online decline  [01/22/2009 01:17 PM]
Turnover at eBay's famous auction websites crashed 16% in the last quarter as recession-hit shoppers keep their wallets tightly shut
Britannia and Co-op to create 'super-mutual'  [01/22/2009 01:17 PM]
Two of the UK's biggest customer-owned banks, Co-operative Financial Services and Britannia Building Society are to merge to create a 'super-mutual'
Bank is given the green light to print more money  [01/22/2009 01:17 PM]
The Bank of England was today given a licence to print more money to bail out the failing economy
Calls for RBS boss to lose knighthood  [01/22/2009 01:17 PM]
Gordon Brown's closeness to former Royal Bank of Scotland chief Sir Fred Goodwin came under fire amid calls for him to be stripped of his knighthood
UK job loss map: Where the axe has fallen  [01/22/2009 01:17 PM]
Around 2,500 people are being made redundant every day in the worst jobs bloodbath since records began, official figures revealed
The trouble with bosses today  [01/22/2009 01:17 PM]
The scaremongers selling us short  [01/22/2009 01:17 PM]
The disaster of state control  [01/22/2009 01:17 PM]
The slide in banking shares, with Barclays the main victim in latest trading, cannot be ignored
Midas share tips: Cadbury and Young's  [01/22/2009 01:17 PM]