No cash for victims of 'minor' crimes
More than 20,000 victims of "less serious" violent crime each year are to lose the right to cash compensation payments and will instead be offered practical help, such as...
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Allen explains ITV's logic in buying Friends Reunited
ITV laid out the strategic case for acquiring Friends Reunited yesterday after sealing a £175m takeover whose logic has been questioned by shareholders and analysts...
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Less tax and less red tape needed, warns business
Business leaders and specialist advisers last night criticised the chancellor for raising the tax burden on companies and failing to cut public spending. They also accuse...
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Major card players show their hands
Million of credit card customers will have the intimate details of their accounts shared by banks following an agreement announced last week by four major card companies....
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Why is my credit score so low?
Q I have a perfect credit record. I'm 65, always pay my bills on time, and have no overdue payments - yet each time I apply for credit I'm told I have a low score. How ca...
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Warning on credit cheque fees
Consumers could be paying more in interest and penalty charges than they realise when they use credit card cheques, a government minister has warned.
The cheques are sen...
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Christmas credit card spending to drop
There were further signs that consumers are losing their appetite for credit today when the body representing payment card issuers said it expected credit card spending i...
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Full text of Ken Jarrold's speech
The NHS - past, present and future
It is a great honour to deliver the 12th Sally Irvine lecture. The lecture was established in 1994 to celebrate Sally's four-year pres...
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Court overturns squatters' rights on land worth millions
Taxpayers face a compensation bill that could total millions of pounds after a ruling that "squatters' rights" laws breached the human rights of a property development fi...
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Hoyzer jailed for match-fixing
A German referee was today convicted of fraud and sentenced to two years and five months in prison for his part in one of the country's biggest ever match-fixing scandals...
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