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  • Six Budget predictions and eight Budget wishes
    Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:47:08 GMT
    Accountant Tenon warns the HMRC is set to turn the screw on tax avoidance and will clamp down on schemes that turn income into capital ahead of the 50% tax rate in April

BBC Business News

  • Sarkozy and Brown attack US deal
    Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:39:58 GMT
    Nicolas Sarkozy and Gordon Brown criticise the US for "protectionism" over an aerospace deal after talks in London.
  • Port exports
    Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:58 GMT
    Portuguese exporters hit by strong euro
  • Lloyds aids mortgage overpayments
    Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:53 GMT
    UK mortgage lender Lloyds Banking Group is encouraging borrowers to pay off up to 20% of their mortgages early.
  • Interns 'exploited by employers'
    Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:47 GMT
    The TUC is claiming that young people are being exploited by employers through internships in which they do not get paid.

BBC News

  • Moon decision dismays astronauts
    Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:38:02 GMT
    Nasa Moon astronauts tell the BBC President Barack Obama's decision to cancel the US lunar programme is "catastrophic".
  • Alaska wolves 'killed' US teacher
    Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:56:28 GMT
    Wolves in Alaska are suspected of killing a woman jogger in what would be the first such attack in the US in half a century.
  • Obese drinkers face 'double hit'
    Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:09:44 GMT
    Obese women drinking little more than a glass of wine a day have double the risk of liver disease compared with those who are slimmer, experts warn.
  • Youth charged over collapse death
    Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:59:13 GMT
    An 18-year-old is charged with the harassment of a man who collapsed and died outside his Greater Manchester home.

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