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Job cuts brew trouble at Twinings tea factory

Monday, September 06, 2010

Twinnings, the quintessentially English tea maker, is to export hundreds of jobs - but not before staff at the North Shields plant have trained their Polish replacements.Comment on this story

US housing market in freefall again

Weak streak: The number of home sales has plunged by 34%

Monday, September 06, 2010

America's property market is in trouble again, says Paul Dales, US economist at Capital Economics, and that spells bad news for the rest of the world

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BP 'to step up asset sales'

Monday, September 06, 2010

There is mounting speculation that BP is upping its target for the amount of money it wants to raise from asset sales.

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Family homes get £91 a day harder to buy

Monday, September 06, 2010

Owners of detached homes have seen them increase in value by £91 a day over the past year - bad news for anyone who wants to move up the housing...

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Oyster-style travel card to go nationwide

Easy: Oyster cards are already used by millions in London for bus and rail

Monday, September 06, 2010

Passengers could soon be able to use smartcards for bus and train travel across the country.

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FTSE preview: Shares expected to rise

Monday, September 06, 2010

The Footsie index of leading shares is expected to rise today, building on its recent advance, following strength overnight in Asia and on Wall Street...

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