Archive for June, 2007

The FSA has hinted that financial advisers could be forbidden to call themselves “independent” if they earn commission from financial products.

Leeds Mercantile Court in Yorkshire is bracing itself for some 200 cases regarding bank customers’ demands for the return of overdraft charges.

UK house price growth ‘bounced back’ in June, with prices rising 1.1%, according to the latest property price survey from Nationwide.

Low-income households that tend to comprise the bulk of pre-payment energy customers are missing out on average savings of £100 a year by not being able to switch supplier, according to the energy regulator Ofgem.

The UK’s interest rates are still low, according to the deputy governor of the Bank of England, Sir John Gieve.

Battered homeowners and businesses, particularly in the north and east of England, were today counting the cost of the recent storms that have brought havoc to huge swathes of the country.

People’s average council tax bill has almost doubled since Tony Blair was elected Prime Minister in May 1997, according to a recent analytical report from mortgage lending bank Halifax.

As Wimbledon 2007 gets underway – the first to offer male and female competitors the same prize money – a women’s campaign group has called on Gordon Brown to do more to close the gender pay gap in all areas of society.

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