The railway's black hole
The financial crisis on Britain's railways is going from bad to worse. A few days ago John Prescott, the deputy prime minister, accelerated payment of a £1.5bn lifel...
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Tragic tycoon seeks solace with Aids victims
She is the nurse who became Britain's richest businesswoman, turning a ?25,000 redundancy payment into a ?1 billion international empire.
When she left her council...
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When slaughter is cheap...
At least the taxi drivers are honking each other again. And the New York sidewalks are again arenas for confrontation. But as they stagger back to normality, New Yorkers ...
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What you have told us about how the company operates
In August 1999, I took out a contract with Singlepoint for a mobile phone. In August 2000 I was cold-called and asked if I wanted a new phone, I enquired of the cost and ...
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Losses at least ?1bn, says Lloyd's
Lloyd's, London's international insurance market, is expected to reveal today that it faces losses of at least £1bn as a result of the terrorist attacks in the Unite...
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Good deal for users as cards are shuffled off again?
Abbey National's 500,000 credit cardholders might not be too pleased to discover they have been off- loaded on to a US-based card company which has come under fire for fa...
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Everyone can take the credit
So, you want to buy something on the internet and save a load of cash, but you don't have a credit card? That's
a coincidence, because plenty of e-tailers would be onl...
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Anger over Revenue's debt check
Self employed workers who thought they had cleared their debts to the Inland Revenue with a tax cheque on January 31 may have to think again. They are being targeted by a...
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Housing benefit celebrates its 18th birthday
On what was only its second birthday, in 1984, a leader in the Times dismissed it as "the biggest administrative fiasco in the history of the welfare state". Next month, ...
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Bonuses not as equitable as they seem
At first glance Equitable Life's bonus payment for last year, at 8 per cent for with-profits pensions, seems surprisingly good news for a life office in such dire straits...
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