Kennedy says Lib Dems will keep local income tax policy
The Liberal Democrat leader, Charles Kennedy, today pledged his party would stick to its plan to replace the council tax with a local income tax, saying the policy had "t...
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Bank hints at cheaper borrowing costs
The Bank of England dropped the first hint last night that interest rates could be on the way down as the west's leading economic thinktank warned that waning consumer sp...
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US investors seek a hedge against hedge funds
In some quarters it is being called 'the catastrophe that never happened'. Not yet, anyway.
For 10 days, Wall Street anxiety about a collapse in the over-inflated hedge ...
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What do no votes mean for the union?
It was business as usual for the European Central Bank yesterday. Just as it has at every meeting for the past 24 months, it left interest rates on hold. The no votes in ...
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Alien nation
The French debate on the European Union constitution, or to be more accurate the arguments put forward by the mainstream left against that much-maligned treaty, is slowly...
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Store card chief who wants to take all of the credit
Brad Cooper ought to be a household name. More than 11 million adults in this country owe him, or rather the company he runs, an average of £300.
As the head of GE...
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Criminal justice system 'failing
Reoffending rates after a prison sentence are at an "unacceptably high level" and the failure of the criminal justice system to stop prisoners reoffending should shock th...
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Sales slump for JJB Sports
JJB Sports yesterday revealed another slump in sales, blaming rises in tax and interest rates for the decline. City analysts cut their profit forecasts for the year and a...
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Media pluckers strike again
Gulf in success rates of IVF clinics, was the predictable headline that greeted the publication this week by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority's annual gui...
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Call for tighter controls on doorstep lending
A consumer group today renewed its call for a shake-up of the UK's ?2bn home credit market in a bid to protect vulnerable people.
The National Consumer Council (NCC) sa...
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