Bumper payoff for retiring union official
A union official at the centre of an election marred by ballot-rigging is to leave his job with a corporate-style £320,000 deal plus a car.
Charlie McKenzie, who w...
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When honesty is the best policy
Exaggerating insurance claims has, for a long time, been a convenient way for thousands of people to milk a few extra pounds on the back of a burglary or holiday theft.
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A slip, but no discs
When Mr J was burgled, he notified the police of the incident and put in an insurance claim totalling £3,000 which included a DVD player, 14 DVD discs and a selectio...
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Student loans could be in monthly doses
Higher education minister Margaret Hodge has asked the Student Loans Company to investigate paying out loans monthly so that students can manage their finances better.
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SFI shares fall 66% as cash runs out
SFI, the high street pub group best known for the Slug and Lettuce and Bar Med, yesterday issued a profits warning and cancelled the payment of its final dividend.
Shar...
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Seeing red after going Solo
Users of Solo transaction cards beware: evidence is growing of mysterious duplicate payments that can wreck careful budgeting plans by people on low incomes.
Tamsin Wil...
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Vodafone frustrates Vivendi with SFR bid
Vodafone yesterday launched an audacious 13.07bn euro (£8.3bn) pre-emptive strike against struggling Franco-American media conglomerate Vivendi in the battle for Fra...
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Where roads are plagued by the quick and the dead
It is one o'clock in the afternoon and I am in the back of a taxi travelling down the airport highway into town. It is 39C outside and the sun is making pretty patterns o...
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Attention to details
Do you ever worry about giving your bank and credit card details over the phone? I've started to get allergic to all those disembodied call centre conversations where you...
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Brawny and Clyde
Pasolini's Salo features in its credits a list of books for further reading. The press notes for Ken Loach's Sweet Sixteen contain a short essay on poverty in Scotland an...
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