Ruling turns up heat on lenders
Yesterday's ruling will spark alarm among lenders, whose beguiling offers of "consolidation" and "home improvement" loans have been at the heart of Britain's spiralling &...
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China tries to cool its economy
China took the global markets by surprise yesterday as it raised interest rates for the first time in nine years in an attempt to cool its rampant economy.
The move - w...
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Call for smaller painkiller packs to reduce suicides
Doctors have called for a further reduction in painkiller pack sizes after research was published showing previous reductions had slashed suicide rates by a fifth.
The r...
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Outlook for prices 'very uncertain
The rate of inflation over the next year remains highly uncertain even though it has been surprisingly low this year, Bank of England monetary policy committee member Ric...
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MP attacks banks 'profiteering from poorest
Consumers who have no internet access are getting a raw deal from the high street banks who only offer the best rates of interest to online customers, an MP warned today....
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Desperate slimmers flock to clinics
Increasing numbers of people are turning to private slimming clubs as a way of shedding the pounds, disillusioned with radical carb-free diets and expensive gym membershi...
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Darker shades of Brown
Is Gordon Brown's luck finally starting to run out? His management of the economy - combining sustained economic growth with prudent finance - has won plaudits even from ...
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Hospital cleaners to strike over pay
Hundreds of contract cleaners at a hospital with one of England's worst rates of infection from the MRSA superbug are to stage a one-day strike next month, unions said t...
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A clean sweep
Pity the new chief nursing officer, lumbered with curbing the health service's burgeoning rates of MRSA and other hospital-acquired infections. If ever there was a proble...
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Property market faces up to 12 months of stagnation
Home buyers and owners were warned yesterday by two separate surveys of the property market that house prices were continuing to fall.
The Royal Institution of Charter...
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