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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It was only a typo, but it meant ?1,000 more to pay
I borrowed £10,000 from Lombard North Central in May 1995 at a variable rate of 1.31 per cent a month for about five years. Last December, I was given a settlement f...
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Big cut in legal aid work for QCs
Criminal defence QCs face a substantial drop in their workload under new rules which could oblige them to do some work at half their usual rates or go idle.
The lord ch...
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Banks block Rover rescue
The eleventh hour rescue bid for Rover proposed by John Towers's Phoenix consortium is being frustrated by the refusal of any British high street bank to grant a £20...
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Great idea, shame about the rules
Payment by results: everyone from teachers to football players is having to live with this kind of market discipline. So it is sensible, isn't it, that fund managers, who...
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Stakeholder plan looks increasingly shaky for lower earners
The government is to spend £5m of taxpayers' cash to publicise stakeholder pensions amid growing fears that the new retirement pay scheme - due to start in April 200...
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Europe rethinks strategy
The outcome of Britain's auction of third generation mobile phone licences has set alarm bells ringing across Europe. A number of countries are already planning how to al...
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