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Nearly £5.4m spent by councils on ‘paupers’ funerals’ in 2017-18, research finds

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Nearly £5.4 million was spent on “paupers’ funerals” by local authorities in the financial year 2017-18, a mutual insurer has found.
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Pensions cold calling ban introduced to thwart scammers

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Companies making nuisance calls about pensions now face potential fines of up to half a million pounds.
From Wednesday, firms making un..

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Heathrow airport departures suspended after drone sighting

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All flights out of the UK’s busiest airport, London’s Heathrow, were briefly suspended after a reported drone sighting, just weeks after a similar report at Gatwick grounded about 1,000 flights.

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DNO raises offer for North Sea firm Faroe to £641.7 million

8 January 2019 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Norwegian energy firm DNO has upped its takeover offer for Faroe Petroleum to £641.7 million as it continues its dogged pursuit of the ..

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FTSE 100 trades higher as investors grow bullish over US-China relations

8 January 2019 News Business Matters 0 Comments

London’s blue-chip index and oil prices traded higher on Tuesday as investors were bullish over a possible breakthrough in trade talks ..

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Monzo hires former boss of Northern Rock as chairman

8 January 20198 January 2019 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Monzo is to appoint the former boss of collapsed lender Northern Rock as its chairman, months after the challenger bank became a unicorn

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Victims report losing over £200,000 as fraudsters claim to be from TV Licensing

8 January 2019 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Fraudsters are sending people a wave of fake TV Licensing emails in order to steal their personal information and trick them into handi..

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Economy Energy goes bust as list of failures grows

8 January 2019 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Economy Energy has become the latest small energy firm to go bust, leaving hundreds of thousands of customers in limbo.
Regulator Ofgem..

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Joules cheers online success as Christmas sales jump

8 January 2019 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Upmarket clothing firm Joules has thanked a strong online performance for helping send festive sales surging by nearly 12%.
The group –..

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Water companies’ response to Beast from the East ‘was poor’

8 January 2019 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Water companies’ response to the Beast from the East was poor and resulted in mixed levels of customer service, the industry regulator ..

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Aldi and Lidl continue to gain on big four supermarkets with bumper Christmas

8 January 20198 January 2019 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Challengers Aldi and Lidl continued to put pressure on the “big four” supermarkets over Christmas, new market share data shows.
Two-thi..

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Building supplies group SIG hit by economic uncertainty

8 January 2019 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Building supplies firm SIG blamed economic uncertainty for contributing to tough conditions in the construction industry as the group p..

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Supermarkets ring up record Christmas despite slower growth

8 January 20198 January 2019 News Business Matters 1 Comment

Supermarkets rang up another record Christmas, new data has shown, despite a slowdown in sector growth.
Shoppers spent a record £29.3 b..

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Morrisons sales tick higher thanks to wholesale arm

8 January 20198 January 2019 News Business Matters 0 Comments

Morrisons has unveiled an increase in Christmas sales thanks to stronger growth in its wholesale arm, despite a slowdown in retail shop..

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Housing market experts surprised as index shows 2.2% price jump in December

8 January 2019 News Business Matters 0 Comments

House prices recorded a surprise jump in December, according to an index.
Halifax said house prices increased by 2.2% month on month in..

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Call blocker firm fined £190,000 for making the nuisance calls it claimed to stop

A company that sold devices promising to protect elderly people from nuisance calls has been fined £190,000 by the ICO for making more than 758,000 of them itself, every one to a number registered with the Telephone Preference Service.

Burnham’s business rates adviser called for £9bn tax cut for high streets

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