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Citywire Investment News

  • Towergate launches RDR transition service
    Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:07:26 +0100
    Towergate Financial is to allow advisers access to its investment proposition and platform as part of a service to help firms prepare for the retail distribution review and improve client communication.

Citywire Money, Tax and Property

  • House prices rise slightly in June
    Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:07:44 +0100
    Land Registry reports 0.1% rise in June following May?s slight fall. Figures come in contrast to other indices which are showing falling prices.

BBC Business News

  • House price inflation eases again
    Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:12:47 +0000
    UK house prices fell 0.5% in July, the Nationwide says, cutting the annual rate of house price inflation to 6.6% from 8.7%.
  • China agrees Guinea mining deal
    Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:02:00 +0000
    Mining giant Rio Tinto completes a deal with Chinese firm Chalco to enter a joint venture in West Africa.
  • Scottish review warns of job cuts
    Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:49:37 +0000
    Up to 60,000 people working in the public sector in Scotland could lose their jobs, according to an independent review commissioned by ministers.
  • BT profit up despite revenue fall
    Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:38:36 +0000
    BT reports what it describes as "acceptable" quarterly results, with profits sharply higher despite a fall in revenue.

BBC News

  • Churchill's teeth fetch £15,200
    Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:30:48 +0000
    A partial set of false teeth made for Sir Winston Churchill are sold at auction in Norfolk for £15,200.
  • Vicar guilty of sham wedding scam
    Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:27:46 +0000
    A Sussex vicar is found guilty of carrying out hundreds of sham marriages over four years to bypass immigration law.
  • Second missing US sailor 'dead'
    Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:22:36 +0000
    Jarod Newlove, the second of two US servicemen who went missing in Afghanistan last week, is found dead, officials say.
  • Car 'surrounded by bonfire mob'
    Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:20:02 +0000
    A man charged in connection with an alleged hit-and-run at an "Eleventh Night" bonfire feared he would be murdered, a court hears.

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