Double standards will land you in court
Boy, oh boy, the British insurance industry is in a mess. As we reveal on the front page today, Standard Life, our leading mutual insurer, is facing a bill of up to £...
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Abbey returns to roots
Abbey National yesterday announced a three-year strategy to persuade the City it can survive as an independent entity after reporting an unprecedented near £1bn loss...
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?1bn isn't a lot to mend a broken bank
With dry understatement, the financial rescue team now running Abbey National - the mortgage bank that thought it was a £100bn hedge fund - finally pulled back the c...
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Pru procrastinates but sellers do not
Worries about the state of the insurance industry after sector heavyweight Prudential refused to commit to its dividend compounded the gloom caused yesterday by the wors...
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Abbey halves dividend as losses near ?1bn
Britain's second-biggest mortgage lender, Abbey National, today reported its first ever annual loss since floating on the stockmarket in 1989, following a year of turmoil...
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Bad review
We were told the reason the higher education strategy document was delayed by almost a year was because the government wanted to get things right. This was Margaret Hodge...
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Generous loans will help to alleviate student poverty
Will the recent white paper, with its introduction of variable tuition fees for higher education, damage access for poorer students? Access to higher education is, and al...
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Should I go bankrupt in order to clear my debt?
Q I graduated a year ago and I am ?12,000 in debt because of a combination of student loans, credit card debt and other financial problems. I have heard that if you go ba...
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It's no use just hoping it'll all come out in the wash
In July 1997, I bought a dishwasher from Scottish Power and took an extended insurance warranty for four years costing £129.99. It was a cashback deal so I could get...
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Switch may help you ride crisis
We are just halfway through the with-profits bonus declaration season and it's already clear that most mortgage borrowers who are using a with-profits endowment policy to...
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