Travel news in brief
Play your cards right
British holiday-makers waste ?495 million every year by using the wrong kind of payment card abroad, according to two recent reports. Withdrawing ...
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Police swoop on Nigerian email fraud ringleaders
More than 500 suspected fraudsters have been arrested, and $500 million of assets seized, in an international crackdown on West African 'advance fee' fraud involving the ...
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Bonus plan to cut NHS waiting lists
Individual NHS doctors and nurses will pocket bonus payments worth hundreds of pounds for carrying out extra operations, health minister John Hutton announced today.
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Big guns test peace strategy in Mongolia
If there is ever a permanent United Nations peacekeeping force, its members may one day trace their origins to the vast pasturelands outside Ulan Bator in Mongolia, where...
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NHS funds for poor areas go to richest
Independent NHS inspectors accused the government last night of shortchanging patients in some of the poorest parts of England by denying their local hospitals and GPs a ...
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Cards to replace notes in our affections
Credit and debit cards are expected to overtake cash this year as Britain's most popular method of payment, according to a new industry report yesterday.
It will be the...
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Yukos teetering as banks call in debts
Yukos, the Russian oil giant, today lurched closer to bankruptcy as a group of creditors declared the company in default on $1bn (?545.7m) of loans.
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Now taxman wants a slice of mis-selling payouts
The government is facing a row over revelations that the Inland Revenue is charging tax on some compensation payments made to victims of financial mis-selling.
Nearly &#...
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Show me the money
Waiting up to five working days for a cheque to clear is annoying enough when it comes to personal banking. The funding gap is all the more galling when it is your busine...
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Sanctions against non-paying parents lie unused
Only 21 absent fathers refusing to make payments for their children's maintenance have had their driving licence removed, even though the government promised three years ...
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