Pickets target Brighthouse over credit for the deprived
A retail chain owned by City financier Guy Hands has been targeted by consumer debt campaigners for charging 'pernicious' prices for consumer goods, from home entertainme...
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Bank under fire for 'best buy' loan dodge
Critics this week accused Alliance & Leicester of manipulating its personal loan rates to push its internet bank to the top of the newspaper "best buy" tables.
Moneyback...
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Brown needs further £2.5bn in taxes, says thinktank
Gordon Brown is likely to have to raise taxes by a further £2.5bn to ensure his golden rule for the public finances is met, the influential Institute for Fiscal Stu...
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Ben?tez's Reds better than team I left, says Fowler
Robbie Fowler rates the new Liverpool under Rafael Benítez a far better side than the one he left behind four years and two months ago.
The 30-year-old's love aff...
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Banking on Bernanke
Picking a successor for Alan Greenspan, who led the Federal Reserve for 18 years, was an easy job for George Bush. There was really one man for the job.
Ben Bernanke, wh...
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Councils get two-year finance settlement
Councils in England are to receive above-inflation rises in government funding for the next two years, it was announced today.
The announcement came with a warning that...
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Pension credits under fire
The government's policy on council tax benefit and pension credit is failing the UK's pensioners, leading charities said today, as official figures showed thousands had m...
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Meet the man the Square Mile loves to hate
David Norgrove may look like the archetypal mild-mannered public servant but, for much of corporate Britain, as chairman of the Pensions Regulator he is blamed for everyt...
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Replace council tax with 1% property levy - NIESR
The government should scrap council tax and replace it with a 1% tax on the value of property, a leading thinktank proposes. Releasing its latest quarterly economic forec...
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That'll help nicely
American Express has long used celebrities to promote its credit cards, but when Bono endorsed its latest offering yesterday it was obvious there was something different ...
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