Move to lift 1% credit union cap
The government yesterday proposed allowing credit unions to increase the amount of interest they can charge borrowers, to help them become providers of loans to the socia...
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Brown extends Isa limits to 2010
Gordon Brown pleased savers and investors looking for tax breaks in his budget today when he announced that the tax-free allowance for the individual savings account (Isa...
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Music to parents' ears
He's become a fiscal conductor, the Toscanini of tax. In the andante, Gordon Brown's baton tips to the City and the raptors of the finance houses - "fiscal tightening", w...
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Online loans that can go off the rails
A new-style online personal loan service, Zopa (www.zopa.com), has been attacked by the lending industry and consumer groups for reducing consumer protection. And despite...
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Brown rides to the rescue again
When the Bank of England was granted operational independence over monetary policy - ie the freedom to decide when and by how much interest rates should change - the Trea...
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High street sales wither in February freeze
Britain's retailers are calling on the Bank of England to cut interest rates after high street sales fell in February for the third time in four months.
The British Ret...
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Treasury rejected Bank of England independence four times
An independent Bank of England was seen as an alternative to entering the Exchange Rate Mechanism as an anti-inflation anchor almost a decade before Gordon Brown freed Th...
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Worst' hospital disputes MRSA infection figures
A foundation trust which topped the league table for rates of MRSA infection has attacked the figures as "misleading" claiming they "grossly misrepresent" the hospital's ...
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Praised in print? Must be ripe for fraud
If the directors have big share options, the chief executive is lionised in the press and the corporate governance is praised, bail out now: these are among the biggest p...
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Diary
The Diary is normally too repressed to celebrate sentimentalism in public life, but occasionally a little heartwarmer sneaks under the wire, and today it's an Evening Sta...
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Manufacturing and Production 
