?80m risk to Claims customers
More than 60,000 Claims Direct customers could lose personal injury payments worth up to £80 million as a result of the firm's slide into receivership.
Claims Dire...
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MPs must oppose this bill
Frank Field's housing benefit (withholding of payment) bill, which is due to come before MPs today, would remove benefit from households guilty of anti-social behaviour. ...
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Forking out by degrees
Why can't the government do the obvious and introduce a tax - not only for future but also for current graduates (Students must pay more - MPs, July 9)? Messing about wit...
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Revenue issues deadline warning
Taxpayers were warned this week they face hefty charges by the Inland Revenue if they fail to meet the self-assessment deadline on July 31.
The Association of Chartered ...
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PM rejects alarm at 'two-tier' NHS plan
Tony Blair has rejected a warning from his Cabinet Office strategy unit that plans to give the best hospitals freedom from Whitehall control run the risk of creating a tw...
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Operate before drug wears off
The beleaguered life insurance industry was administered a big, fat dose of sedative yesterday, courtesy of the financial services authority. The so-called stress tests, ...
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?37m of taxpayers' money in reserve
The royal finances are so awash with taxpayers' money that Buckingham Palace has built up a record "reserve" of £37m on the civil list fund. The annual civil list ac...
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Unexpected charge for car hire
Q I hired a car from Avis some months ago and paid with my credit card. On receipt of my credit card statement I found a charge of ?150. I queried this with Avis who coul...
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Towards a level paying field
Vodafone has done a great deal to advance the cause of corporate governance. That is the, admittedly, rather controversial view of one of the many in the City who devotes...
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Insurer pulls plug on delay payouts
Getting travel insurance to cover flight delays might become more difficult as holidaymakers face the possibility of a summer of discontent with more air-traffic controll...
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