Christmas Debts 'Won't Be Cleared Until June'

The average family is going to take on debts this Christmas that will take until June to pay off, it has been claimed. The Trades Union Congress has carried out research that shows that the typical family will add £685 to its borrowing by the time the...

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UK GDP: Economy Growing Faster Than Expected

Britain's economy has grown faster than expected, despite fears there is underlying fragility. The Office for National Statistics said British gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 0.8% in the third quarter, confirming previous estimates. Annual GDP...

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Christmas Shoppers To Spend £12bn In Four Days

By Emma Birchley, Reporter Shoppers are expected to spend £12bn in just four days as they make the most of slashed prices and promotions, according to retail forecasters. The deals are being offered as a fierce battle for sales rages both on the...

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Serco Agrees To Repay £68.5m Overcharge

Disgraced firm Serco has agreed to repay the Government £68.5m for overcharging for tagging criminals. Both Serco and G4S were found to have charged the taxpayer tens of millions of pounds too much for monitoring criminals in a contract dating back...

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Mortgage Misery For Millions If Rates Go Up

By Ed Conway, Economics Editor Around four million families would not have enough cash to pay their mortgage if interest rates rose to barely half the rate they were before the crisis, according to Bank of England research. The warning from the...

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Ban Payday Loan Ads On Kids' TV, MPs Say

Payday lenders should be banned from advertising on children's television to stop young people believing that getting money is "easy", MPs have urged. The Business, Innovation and Skills Committee (BIS) recommended stopping advertising on programming...

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Serco And G4S Braced For Investigation Outcome

By Mark Kleinman, City Editor The two outsourcing giants at the centre of a scandal over the delivery of Government projects are braced for more bad news on Thursday as they fight to start bidding again for major Whitehall contracts. Sky News understands...

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MPs Demand Crackdown On Payday Lender Ads

By Mark Kleinman, City Editor Payday loan companies should be barred from advertising during children's television programmes, MPs will demand in a hard-hitting report this week. Sky News has learnt that the Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS)...

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HMRC Failing To Pursue Big Business, MPs Warn

By Gerard Tubb, Sky News Correspondent The tax man is too keen to chase small businesses for unpaid tax and is not doing enough to prosecute multinational firms, according to MPs. The Public Accounts Committee claimed Her Majesty's Revenue and...

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MPs Demand Crackdown On Payday Lender Ads

By Mark Kleinman, City Editor Payday loan companies should be barred from advertising during children's television programmes, MPs will demand in a hard-hitting report this week. Sky News has learnt that the Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS)...

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Serco And G4S Braced For Investigation Outcome

By Mark Kleinman, City Editor The two outsourcing giants at the centre of a scandal over the delivery of Government projects are braced for more bad news on Thursday as they fight to start bidding again for major Whitehall contracts. Sky News understands...

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MPs Demand Crackdown On Payday Lender Ads

By Mark Kleinman, City Editor Payday loan companies should be barred from advertising during children's television programmes, MPs will demand in a hard-hitting report this week. Sky News has learnt that the Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS)...

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HMRC Failing To Pursue Big Business, MPs Warn

By Gerard Tubb, Sky News Correspondent The tax man is too keen to chase small businesses for unpaid tax and is not doing enough to prosecute multi-national firms, according to MPs. The Public Accounts Committee claimed Her Majesty's Revenue and...

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Serco And G4S Braced For Investigation Outcome

By Mark Kleinman, City Editor The two outsourcing giants at the centre of a scandal over the delivery of Government projects are braced for more bad news on Thursday as they fight to start bidding again for major Whitehall contracts. Sky News understands...

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HMRC Failing To Pursue Big Business, MPs Warn

By Gerard Tubb, Sky News Correspondent The tax man is too keen to chase small businesses for unpaid tax and is not doing enough to prosecute multi-national firms, according to MPs. The Public Accounts Committee claimed Her Majesty's Revenue and...

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Serco And G4S Braced For Investigation Outcome

By Mark Kleinman, City Editor The two outsourcing giants at the centre of a scandal over the delivery of Government projects are braced for more bad news on Thursday as they fight to start bidding again for major Whitehall contracts. Sky News understands...

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MPs Demand Crackdown On Payday Lender Ads

By Mark Kleinman, City Editor Payday loan companies should be barred from advertising during children's television programmes, MPs will demand in a hard-hitting report this week. Sky News has learnt that the Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS)...

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HMRC Failing To Pursue Big Business, MPs Warn

By Gerard Tubb, Sky News Correspondent The tax man is too keen to chase small businesses for unpaid tax and is not doing enough to prosecute multi-national firms, according to MPs. The Public Accounts Committee claimed Her Majesty's Revenue and...

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Plastic Notes Issued In UK From 2016

Plastic banknotes are to be issued for the first time when the new £5 featuring Sir Winston Churchill appears in 2016. A £10 note featuring Jane Austen to follow around a year later will also be made from polymer rather than the cotton paper currently...

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Jobless Fall Raises Chance Of Interest Rate Rise

A big fall in the number of unemployed has raised the prospect of interest rates rising much earlier than expected. The latest official figures showed 99,000 fewer people were jobless in the three months to October while the number in work topped 30...

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Bitcoin Value Slumps Amid China Restrictions

The virtual currency Bitcoin has dramatically fallen in value after China's biggest trading platform banned deposits in yuan. BTC China said the action follows new regulations from Beijing, which keeps a tight grip on the yuan and enforces capital controls,...

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Airport Expansion: The Case For And Against

The news that new runways at Heathrow and Gatwick are on a shortlist of airport expansion options has been welcomed by the airline industry as well as business leaders. But green campaigners, local residents and some politicians are worried about the...

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New Runways For Gatwick And Heathrow Airports

Building a controversial third runway at Heathrow airport has been shortlisted as one of the options for expansion by the Airports Commission in its first report. The interim findings of an independent inquiry led by the former head of the Financial...

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Lloyds Shares Sale: Taxpayers 'Lost £230m'

Taxpayers took a £230m hit from the sale of a 6% chunk of Lloyds Banking Group shares to the private sector, says a National Audit Office (NAO) report. The figure appears to undermine a claim at the time by Chancellor George Osborne that the share...

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Carrefour Plans £1.7bn Shopping Malls Deal

Carrefour has announced plans to buy 127 shopping centres across Europe in a €2bn (£1.69bn) deal. France's largest retailer, which already owns nearly 10,000 hypermarkets, supermarkets and convenience shops across the continent, has joined forces with...

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New Runways For Gatwick And Heathrow Airports

Building a controversial third runway at Heathrow airport is one of the options shortlisted by the Airport Commission in its first report. The findings of an independent inquiry led by the former head of the Financial Services Authority, Sir Howard...

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Motor Insurance Premiums Could Be Cut

Car insurance premiums are too high, says the competition watchdog which is to look at ways of reducing them. The Competition Commission said there could be caps on the cost of accident repairs and providing replacement vehicles for drivers. The watchdog...

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Ireland Exits Bailout As Economy Turns Around

Ireland has become the first country in the eurozone to exit a bailout programme it was forced to take when it fell on hard times. The country's economy, previously dubbed the Celtic Tiger because of it incredible growth, needed the emergency measure...

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Virgin Money To Launch Current Account Trial

By Mark Kleinman, City Editor The banking arm of Sir Richard Branson's business empire will on Monday become the latest high street lender to begin an assault on Britain's lucrative current account market with the launch of a pilot among its 3000...

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Young Entrepreneurs Set Up Shop In Britain

A new wave of young entrepreneurs behind innovative start-up businesses, including one which makes green energy from waste coffee, have arrived in the UK. Under the Government's Sirius scheme, graduates from across the world are given a 12-month support...

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Ireland Bailout Exit 'Not End Of The Road'

Ireland's finance minister has warned of continuing pain ahead as the country prepares to officially exit its bailout. At a news conference in Dublin ahead of Sunday's milestone, Michael Noonan told reporters "this isn't the end of the road" but...

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