Swissair jets take off to escape creditors
Swissair faced the ignominy of watching at least four of its aircraft fly to south west France over the weekend in an attempt to stop the planes being seized by creditors...
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Anwar come home
Hasham Khan is a frustrated man. While the deaths of four British Muslims fighting for the Taliban have hit the headlines, he says his son has been a largely forgotten pr...
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The man with an identity crisis
It can be a shock if you are turned down for credit. But what happens if you discover the reason you have been rejected is because someone has stolen your identity, accum...
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Equitable's sales pitch proved too good
In its heyday Equitable Life was famed for the abilities of its salesmen. They were acknowledged as some of the most successful in the insurance industry and allowed Equi...
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BT loses 3G court claim
BT and One2One have lost their latest legal bid to prove that they were treated "unfairly and irrationally" over the payment of third generation mobile phone licence fees...
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Analysts downgrade BSkyB forecasts
Analysts have revised earnings forecasts for BSkyB, as the advertising downturn begins to threaten pay-TV companies.
The media team at Credit Suisse First Boston said th...
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Ray Selfe
Speaking of payment for material he shot for a 1968 television series, We Have Ways Of Making You Laugh, Ray Selfe, who has died of a heart attack aged 69, said: "I told ...
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Bhopal's victims say cash is missing
The Indian government is sitting on a large part of Union Carbide's original $470m compensation payment for the 1984 Bhopal disaster, according to a lawyer for the victim...
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Ex-Marconi boss's ?1.2m pension fight
Ousted Marconi chief executive Lord Simpson is battling to secure a £1.2 million 'pension' payment from the stricken telecoms company he left two weeks ago, while al...
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Register your relief
It is often said that only two things in life are certain: death and taxes. Home computers cannot do much to stave off death, but they can sometimes help make the calcula...
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