Hollinger credit rating at risk
Lord Black's control of Hollinger International, the company which owns the Telegraph titles, is under immediate threat after the severing of a financial lifeline feeding...
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CAT sues partner for bigger share of first drug royalties
Cambridge Antibody Technology is suing its partner Abbott Laboratories in the high court over its share of royalty payments for its first drug on the market, the rheumato...
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Tycoon celebrates dual citizenship with ?20m arts donation
A shower of gold has fallen on the Royal Opera in Covent Garden and the Wales Millennium Centre.
Over the next five years, they will get £10m each to create new pr...
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Banks confident of dealing a better hand of cards
Every minute £800 is stolen from credit cards in the UK by fraudsters using someone else's details to buy goods on the phone, online, or by mail order, according to ...
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Baby bonds under fire
MPs branded the government's £500 baby bonds a tax break for the wealthy and "deeply flawed" this week.
The bonds, which Chancellor Gordon Brown first announced tw...
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Drinks chief's ?2m payday cheer
Philip Bowman, chief executive of the drinks group Allied Domecq, banked £2m in the past year after a bonus scheme produced a cash payment of more than £1m.
M...
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CAF's bank relaunched
The Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) has rebranded its banking subsidiary, which has 10% of the charity banking market, to make its purpose clearer. CafCash Ltd will now be...
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FTSE's ?1m woman on the move
The highest paid woman in the FTSE 100 has unexpectedly quit her job to concentrate on finding a bigger role.
Helen Weir, finance director at Kingfisher, parent of the ...
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Court computer plan wastes millions - and still doesn't work
A huge project to put all the nation's magistrates courts on one computer system is condemned by a powerful committee of MPs today as one of the worst public finance proj...
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1.4m pensioners better off with credits
More than 1.4 million pensioners are getting more money each week under the new pension credit, government figures showed today.
The Department for Work and Pensions ...
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