Unions postpone London council strikes
Council worker unions today pulled backed from the brink of immediate strike action across the capital in a dispute over London weighting payments.
At a meeting this mor...
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Now get packing
1. Insurance
Admittedly, insurance isn't glamorous. It doesn't quite fit with the idea of you, young and free, racing across the prairie with the wind in your hair. But...
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So now you know
The cheque as a method of payment dates back to the English Civil War in the seventeenth century (as Britons spend £285bn a year using payment cards and the eventual...
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Life after R&SA's change of policy
Insurer Royal & SunAlliance's decision to close its UK life insurance business to new business in order to save cash will have left policy holders wondering what this...
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Credit card debt increasing
Britons spent ?540,000 a minute on their plastic last year as the popularity of credit and debit cards continued to soar, a report claimed today.
Consumer spending on c...
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Cashing in life insurance
Q My parents started a small life insurance policy for me when l was a child which now has a cash value of around ?3,000. Should l cash in this policy and use the money f...
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Merrill stumps up to end Sainsbury pension fund row
Merrill Lynch Investment Managers has avoided another high profile legal action from a leading pension fund client by making a secret payment to the supermarket group Sai...
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Should I consolidate my debts?
Q I have several credit cards and a loan, totalling ?15,000 debt. I wonder which would be the best course of action to take to make just one affordable payment each month...
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Travel insurance
If you bought travel insurance over the phone, along with your holiday or your flights, can you remember exactly what was said? If an insurer asked you to prove that you ...
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FBI puts cuffs on former WorldCom chiefs
US officials continued their crackdown on corporate scandals yesterday with the arrest of two former WorldCom executives for their alleged part in the $3.85bn accounting ...
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