A moral dilemma
Financial advisers claim investing ethically on behalf of one's children is a booming business, driven largely by liberal-leaning mums who want both their children and th...
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Ordeal by brown envelope
You missed the self assessment deadline and you're waiting for a brown envelope ordering you to pay a £100 fine. If the tax form is still in its celophane wrapper th...
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Leeds order inquiry into Hauge fee
Leeds United yesterday began an internal audit of their finances and transfer dealings in the light of allegations about the handling of the £18.5m acquisition of Ri...
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Card charge adds to shoppers' bills
Consumers are paying higher prices in shops because of the "unjustifiably high fees" charged by payment processor MasterCard, the Office of Fair Trading said today.
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Mouse made hole in my pocket
Our house insurance through Budget Insurance Services was due for renewal on 1 January. On Christmas Eve my husband caught a mouse that had chewed a hole in the armchair ...
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Lord chancellor gets ?2m pension deal
Lord Irvine will get a pension package worth £2m from the taxpayer under a special deal offered to the country's three "great offices of state", the Cabinet Office d...
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Caught in Abbey National's tangled web
Abbey National's website is poor and its e-banking facilities are the worst web pages I've ever seen from a major company. My wife's daughter, who also uses it, agrees. I...
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ING criticised for early billing before closing UK arm
Investment bank ING has infuriated many of its small and medium-sized corporate brokerage clients by billing them in advance for 2003 just days before shutting down its U...
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Deadline beaters
· Depressed about the impending tax deadline? If you are self-employed or a company director needing to submit their self-assessment form and have yet to do anything...
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Child support changes ready to go
Simplification of the child support agency, introducing flat rate payments, is to be implemented four years after it was first announced, the government said yesterday.
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