Sinister death tax' planned, warn Tories
The government plans to introduce a "sinister death tax" to help pensioners avoid paying council tax while they are alive, the Conservatives claimed today.
The Tories ra...
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Inflation rises to eight-year high
Britain's inflation rate has risen to its highest level in eight years, official figures showed today, diminishing prospects for another interest rate cut any time soon.
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Babies should be savers, too
Sometimes you have to feel sorry for Gordon Brown. His advisers scour the globe for the next big thing. There are seminars, regional pilots, elaborate costings and apprai...
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Still hungry
For supper tonight, three-quarters of us will be eating mainly stodge - a pile of carbohydrates. One in 10 people on the planet will dine on a mash of cassava root (remem...
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Derbyshire is top cut
The Derbyshire building society is so far the only institution to have cut the rates on its savings accounts by more than 0.5 per cent, following the 0.25 per cent base r...
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Bombardier cuts put Belfast jobs at risk
More than 200 aerospace jobs in Northern Ireland at the old Short Brothers factory are at risk after the owner said it was cutting production rates of one of its aircraft...
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GCSE pupils urged to stay on at school
The government last night admitted it was still worried by the high school drop-out rate, urging the thousands of youngsters who will receive their GCSE results today to ...
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Saddle up in safety
Cyclists who have taken to the roads following the bomb attacks in London are being warned to check that they have adequate insurance cover and legal advice in the event ...
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Going flat out
Lobbying for an overhaul of the tax system by the adoption of a controversial system of "flat tax" has been a staple of the US political right for some time. The subject ...
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Bank chief widens rift with Brown
The division between the Treasury and the Bank of England over the health of the public finances widened yesterday when the Bank's governor, Mervyn King, openly questione...
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