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U.K. Business News
From The Financial Times
- Web no threat to TV, says UK expert
- A media academic from the London Business School warns broadcasters and national newspapers not to be fooled by the threat from internet innovations
- City regulator in mortgage fraud crackdown
- Growing evidence of home loan fraud is forcing the City watchdog into a crackdown on UK brokers that could see them facing tougher scrutiny
- Luxury market feels the pinch
- Inflation in luxury goods and services has dropped sharply in the past year, suggesting even the wealthy are feeling the effects of the downturn
- Halifax cuts cost of home loan deals
- The UK's largest lender brings momentum to the trend of falling mortgage rates as it reduced its two- and five-year fixed rates by up to 15 basis points
- Public finances worsen
- The UK's finances have deteriorated faster than expected as the economic slowdown takes its toll on tax revenues, official data showed on Friday
- PM under fire for not aiding institute inquiry
- Gordon Brown came under fire for refusing to co-operate with a regulatory inquiry into a think-tank, which was yesterday criticised for failing to maintain the...
- Brown looks set to reform fiscal rules
- Gordon Brown's longstanding claim to the mantle of economic competence was mocked yesterday by his rivals, after it emerged the UK government is considering relaxing...
- Party spirit dips as British trade unions declare payback time
- Desperate times require desperate measures. Britain's ruling Labour party is so strapped for cash that it staged a celebrity auction this month to help service debts...
- Diverse choices in Riba Stirling Prize shortlist
- The shortlist for the 2008 Riba Stirling Prize, British Architecture's most prestigious award, announced yesterday offersa diverse and intriguing line-up, writes...
- Battle for savings ends as top fixed-rate deals pulled
- The top two fixed-rate savings deals have been withdrawn just weeks after launch, in a sign that lenders are no longer battling for customers' cash to offset the...
- Fixing Britain
- It will need a series of complex local interventions, not the rebadging of ideological policies that aim to solve phantom general problems
- Made to be broken
- So Gordon Brown's fiscal rules are to be replaced with new ones. But resolutions are never easy to keep, especially not when relying on willpower alone
- Tax change could lift British borrowing
- British finance ministry officials are working on plans to reform the prime minister's fiscal rules on government spending and debt, with a new framework which would...
- Watchdog verdict on Smith Institute's links
- A Charity Commission report is expected to rebuke the think-tank, closely identified with Brown, for straying from its educational remit into party political territory
- Alert over Revenue's ?2.7bn shake-up
- Public spending watchdog warns that the programme to transform the way Revenue & Customs works may not pay off as one of the project's main components suffers a delay
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