We like HSBC's 0% card
It is offering zero per cent on purchases until September 2005, and zero per cent on balance transfers for nine months.
The cards' long-term rates are 15.9% APR for Cl...
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Review warns of 'polarised' post-16 learning
An unofficial bipartite system of academic and vocational post-16 education could undermine the ability of schools and colleges to collaborate effectively, the first annu...
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MPs vote for ?8,000 rise in staff allowance
A cross-party coalition of MPs yesterday voted to increase their staff allowance by more than £8,000 a year in a move that will cost the taxpayer an extra £3m. ...
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Unanimously cautious wise men
All nine members of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee (MPC) voted earlier this month to keep interest rates at 4.75%, Bank minutes showed today.
There was ...
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Unemployment hits record low
Britain's jobless rate in the three months to September fell to a record low of 4.6% from 4.8% in the previous quarter, official figures showed today.
The number of unem...
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Will luck of the Irish rub off?
Rock-Bottom interest rates, sizzling house prices, and a plethora of pundits predicting a crash. Sounds familiar, but this is not Britain in 2004: it's Ireland, circa 199...
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Where the young can stash their cash
Banks and building societies make a real effort to attract pocket money and other sums from children, or their families - often with interest rates that adults can only d...
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Mousekeeping adds to Euro Disney loss
French theme park operator Euro Disney saw its losses increase last year due to royalty payments, the costs of its financial restructuring and the failure to attract more...
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Mandelson snipes at Brown's record
Peter Mandelson, the UK's European commissioner designate, reopened his rift with Gordon Brown yesterday when he warned against "exaggerated gloating" over Britain's rece...
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October spending rise surprises retailers
British retail sales rose more than expected in October and at their sharpest rate in three months, according to a CBI survey published today.
The employers' organisati...
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