Plastic debt repayment improves
British consumers are paying off their credit card debt at a faster rate than they are spending on their plastic, according to figures yesterday from the payment clearing...
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Post Office relents - after seven appeals
I bought Aon travel insurance from the Post Office for a trip to Turkey. Five days before the holiday, my father suffered a stroke and died. I intended cancelling the hol...
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Job shuffle rumours at Standard Life
Standard Life is said to be hunting for a new finance director before it demutualises and floats on the stock market.
The company's finance director, John Hylands, has ...
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Legal aid for barristers
· As of last week, barristers in criminal trials are being granted legal aid under a new payment scheme which has so angered them that a very unlawyerlike boycott ha...
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Trust Nye
I disagree with John Carvel's belief that Nye Bevan would have disapproved of NHS foundation trusts (Patients as guests, payment by results - it's the new NHS, April 1). ...
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Letters to the editor
PFI is working
Nick Cohen is right when he says PFI is complicated (Comment, last week). One reason for choosing this method of public finance is that the risk of overrun...
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Don't take an interest in the details
Clever Halifax! 'Launching the UK's Biggest Regular Savings Rate - 6.05 per cent AER'. What a wheeze! The best introductory gimmick yet! Mmm...
OK, here's how Halifax p...
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Mannesmann trial close to collapse after ruling
The trial of Germany's top banker and five other executives accused of taking vast payments during Vodafone's infamous takeover of Mannesmann was last night on the brink ...
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What else can a tax inspector do?
Paul, 41, is a tax inspector for the Inland Revenue (IR) in Humberside who thinks it is time to look for a new job after the chancellor's budget announcement to mer...
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A week to go: what to do about Isas?
There may still be one week to go until the end of the tax year, but if you are planning to put cash into an individual savings account (Isa), you had better get your ska...
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Banking 
