SFI shares fall 66% as cash runs out
SFI, the high street pub group best known for the Slug and Lettuce and Bar Med, yesterday issued a profits warning and cancelled the payment of its final dividend.
Shar...
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Seeing red after going Solo
Users of Solo transaction cards beware: evidence is growing of mysterious duplicate payments that can wreck careful budgeting plans by people on low incomes.
Tamsin Wil...
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Vodafone frustrates Vivendi with SFR bid
Vodafone yesterday launched an audacious 13.07bn euro (£8.3bn) pre-emptive strike against struggling Franco-American media conglomerate Vivendi in the battle for Fra...
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Where roads are plagued by the quick and the dead
It is one o'clock in the afternoon and I am in the back of a taxi travelling down the airport highway into town. It is 39C outside and the sun is making pretty patterns o...
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Attention to details
Do you ever worry about giving your bank and credit card details over the phone? I've started to get allergic to all those disembodied call centre conversations where you...
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Brawny and Clyde
Pasolini's Salo features in its credits a list of books for further reading. The press notes for Ken Loach's Sweet Sixteen contain a short essay on poverty in Scotland an...
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Fight to salvage my old banger
My car was stolen in spring and I claimed on my insurance with Admiral. The car was later found damaged, and written off by Admiral largely because it was 10 years old. ...
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Carlton to halve dividend, broker predicts
Carlton Communications will halve its dividend payment to shareholders to alleviate financial concerns, the ITV company's own stockbroker predicted yesterday.
Cutting t...
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Beijing stumped for an answer to Washington's 'new imperialism
It is an awful prospect for President Jiang Zemin - far worse than a mass strike by laid-off workers, violent peasant protests at taxation, or any domestic upset that mig...
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Inland Revenue's property sold to company in tax haven
The Inland Revenue yesterday admitted that it sold its entire property portfolio of 600 buildings to a company based in a tax haven, despite a Treasury crackdown on tax d...
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