Labour must root out venality and start afresh
Tessa Jowell's decision to separate from her husband, David Mills, follows a hideous and embarrassing fortnight. The spectacle of human lives unravelling is always dreadf...
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Strong property performance stems rate cut hopes
House prices in England and Wales rose by 0.4% in February as a surge of new buyers entered the market, according to the latest Hometrack housing index.
The report, whic...
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Why buy a bank? Because that's where the money is
Never mind the numbers, feel the bid fever: that sums up investors' current attitudes to the banking sector. If the City rumour machine is to be believed, just about ever...
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Academies left in the lurch by sinking funds
On a busy, blustery morning at Leeds Road playing fields Huddersfield Town's academy director Gerry Murphy is running a group of under-16s through a training exercise, bo...
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Homebuyers rush to fix rates
Concerns about interest rate rises and increases in the number of repossessions drove higher sales of fixed-rate mortgages in the last three months of 2005, figures showe...
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Will I pay tax on a flat bought by my parents?
Q My parents bought a flat for me to live in almost five years ago. They took out an £80,000 mortgage and put in an £8,000 deposit. The flat is now worth in the...
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Inflation remains unchanged at 1.9%
Britain's annual inflation rate stayed unchanged at 1.9% last month, remaining below the Bank of England's 2% target for the second month in a row, official figures showe...
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Graduate gifts
Investing your well-earned cash in furthering human knowledge may sound a waste of money compared with paying off your mortgage. But in the US, philanthropy and private-s...
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Counting the pennies
Watch any financial self-help show and you'll hear the word "budget". Whether the participant wants to pay off their mortgage in two years, stop being a spendaholic or qu...
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Flogging dead Horrockses
Who do you think you are? BBC2
Pay off your mortgage in two years BBC2
Agatha Christie's Marple ITV1
Newsnight BBC2
'I feel like Miss Marple!' exclaimed Jane Horrocks du...
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