Outlook for prices 'very uncertain
The rate of inflation over the next year remains highly uncertain even though it has been surprisingly low this year, Bank of England monetary policy committee member Ric...
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MP attacks banks 'profiteering from poorest
Consumers who have no internet access are getting a raw deal from the high street banks who only offer the best rates of interest to online customers, an MP warned today....
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Desperate slimmers flock to clinics
Increasing numbers of people are turning to private slimming clubs as a way of shedding the pounds, disillusioned with radical carb-free diets and expensive gym membershi...
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Darker shades of Brown
Is Gordon Brown's luck finally starting to run out? His management of the economy - combining sustained economic growth with prudent finance - has won plaudits even from ...
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Hospital cleaners to strike over pay
Hundreds of contract cleaners at a hospital with one of England's worst rates of infection from the MRSA superbug are to stage a one-day strike next month, unions said t...
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A clean sweep
Pity the new chief nursing officer, lumbered with curbing the health service's burgeoning rates of MRSA and other hospital-acquired infections. If ever there was a proble...
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Property market faces up to 12 months of stagnation
Home buyers and owners were warned yesterday by two separate surveys of the property market that house prices were continuing to fall.
The Royal Institution of Charter...
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Bank row looms over basic account target
Plans by the Treasury to provide accounts for 3 million households without access to banking services are expected to be announced next month in a move that is likely to ...
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Go south' strategy attacked
Government strategies forcing higher growth and hundreds of thousands of new houses on an already prosperous south-east of England are challenged today by a thinktank whi...
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Work writes
Informal talks best way to get promised pay rate
I work for an organisation that pays higher rates in the job I do if you have a particular qualification. Before I joine...
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