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Citywire News

  • Mortgages: cut out the middle man for the best rates
    Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:01:00 +0100
    Increasingly, high street banks are not only by-passing brokers ? the only place a potential homebuyer can get truly impartial advice on a home loan ? but they are restricting their best offers to existing customers.

BBC Business News

  • Cairo literary business booming
    Sat, 04 Sep 2010 16:50:18 GMT
    Egypt's literary scene is thriving, with a new generation of writers and poets taking advantage of an increasing number of small publishers and social networking sites to get their work noticed.
  • Six million facing new tax bills
    Sat, 04 Sep 2010 16:22:04 GMT
    HM Revenue and Customs says some 1.4 million people each owe about £1,500 in tax, while 4.3 million will get an average rebate of £418.
  • Industry fears over cheaper coins
    Sat, 04 Sep 2010 16:12:04 GMT
    Vending machine companies warn cheaper "steel" 5p and 10p coins being considered by the Treasury could cost the industry millions of pounds.
  • Banks leave customers in 'poverty'
    Sat, 04 Sep 2010 09:29:15 GMT
    High Street banks have been accused of leaving some customers in "dire poverty" after taking money out of their accounts without permission.
  • Nigerian economy 'to grow by 10%'
    Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:04:42 GMT
    Nigeria's economy will hit double-digit growth by the end of 2011 or early 2012, the country's finance minister says.

BBC News

  • Rider airlifted at horse trials
    Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:25:01 GMT
    Scottish event rider Nicola Malcolm is airlifted to hospital after falling from her horse during the Burghley Horse Trials.
  • Name released after city death
    Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:20:02 GMT
    Police release the name of a man who was found dead at his apartment in Armagh city on Friday.
  • Belarus web activist found hanged
    Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:13:57 GMT
    A Belarus opposition website activist found hanged at his home outside Minsk committed suicide, officials say.
  • Blair pelted with eggs in Dublin
    Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:11:30 GMT
    Shoes, eggs and plastic bottles are thrown at Tony Blair as he arrives at a book-shop in Dublin to sign copies of his memoirs.
  • Tropical storm Earl hits Canada
    Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:00:07 GMT
    Tropical Storm Earl reaches Nova Scotia, on the eastern Canadian coast, with tens of thousands of people experiencing power cuts.

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