Phone selloff brings government ?12bn surplus
Britain's public finances showed an impressive ?12bn surplus last month as the first receipts from the auction of mobile phone licences poured into the government's coff...
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Taxation: hints and wrinkles
Being over 65 can have its financial advantages. The system offers several tax breaks that are not available to younger taxpayers - but you have to know the rules.
Ever...
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Focus
Companies which change name usually claim that a corporate makeover is needed because the original title no longer reflects its activities.
There is a little of that be...
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Banks are profiting from cheque clearance delay
An antiquated cheque clearing system is allowing UK banks to make large profits on interest payments while customers are made to wait for up to 11 days for their cheques ...
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Pay off the oldest ones
Grey politics has arrived in Britain. The retired are now the fastest growing group of the electorate, and at the recent local elections they exercised their political po...
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Regan cooperates
Andrew Regan, the Monaco-based entrepreneur who tried to take over the Co-operative Wholesale Society three years ago, yesterday returned to Britain to face a criminal ch...
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Thames Water justifies deferred dividend
Thames Water is delaying payment of its final dividend for at least seven months to avoid paying advance corporation tax which it might not recover.
It admitted that the...
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Left out of pocket in a legal slow lane
In 1998, I was involved in a traffic accident when the car behind me failed to stop. I sent a claim form to AGF Insurance, who provided a hire car. First they lost my cla...
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Shame about the Net
Booking
EasyJet sells 67 per cent of its seats on the Net. I had never entrusted my credit card number to the Internet, but chose to go with the flow. The easyJet we...
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Settlement for sacked train driver
A train driver who claimed she was sacked for her union activities today accepted a £16,000 payment in settlement of her case.
Sarah Friday, 35, will not be reinst...
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