A London council plans to set a precedent by charging motorists for parking permits according to how much pollution their car causes
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This Is Money: Brown Faces £10bn Bill After Tax Ruling
The Treasury could face a bill running to more than £10bn after a landmark ruling by the House of Lords on foreign companies’ payments
This Is Money: Pension Mayhem Warning For OAPs
OAPs could be left struggling to get hold of their pensions by the decision to scrap the Post Office Card Account, a charity warned yesterday
This Is Money: Anglo Adopts A New Look
The mining giant Anglo American has never been conventional – instead of a testosterone charged male boss it has added the exclusive club of Footsie women
This Is Money: 30 Second Guide To… Global Inflation
The Daily Mail City team give a quick guide to global rising prices
Motley Fool: A Small-Cap That Beat The Market Correction
With the benefit of hindsight, May this year was not a great time to buy shares. By mid-June, the FTSE 100 had slumped more than 10% and it has taken a further four months for the index to regain its earlier high*. Sadly, many stocks popular with private investors — such as NXT (LSE: NTX), Stanelco (LSE: SEO) and Aminex (LSE: AEX) — remain well below their 2006 peaks**.
Motley Fool: Max Out Your Savings!
Although interest rates remained at 4.75% this month, a lot of people believe that the Bank of England will raise them to 5% in the next few months. And although this isn’t great news for those with a variable mortgage, it does mean that savers can start earning a decent rate on their cash.
Motley Fool: Better Than Banks And Building Societies!
Britain’s banks are among the most profitable in Europe, if not the world. Indeed, the UK’s five biggest banks (HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays, HBOS and Lloyds TSB) made a combined pre-tax profit of £33.5 billion last year, which is an all-time record.
Motley Fool: Six More Ways To Make A Million
On 17 April 1956 the then Chancellor Harold Macmillan unveiled plans for a new state saving scheme. It was bold, it was brash, but it also drew criticism from Shadow Chancellor Harold Wilson. The then Labour chancellor urged MacMillan to examine the radical proposal as part of the Government’s bill on gambling and betting.
Motley Fool: Value In High Yield
For some time now I have not found any shares displaying my pyad characteristics of deep value coupled with that other desirable essential of forecast rising eps, in which I’d feel happy investing.