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Text spammers from 'shady' firms will face fines of £500,000 published yesterday at 20:47
<br/>Text spammers – mass senders of unsolicited texts – come in many guises. But from this month they face fines of up to £500,000 as the authorities attempt to clamp down on a fast-growing problem.
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Clothing brand Barbour is stepping up efforts to scupper internet copycats published yesterday at 20:45
<br/>Barbour's group finance director Brenda Readman-Bell has said the company had to deal with a ‘massive’ escalation in the number of counterfeit products available on the internet.
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THE INTERVIEW: Customers must have a role in the race to curb excessive pay published yesterday at 20:42
<br/>Robert Talbut, chief investment officer for the mutual Royal London and now chairman of investments at the powerful Association of British Insurers, has no truck with over-generous packages for directors.
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Debenhams trading director Suzanne Harlow issues weather warning published yesterday at 20:08
<br/>Cashing in on this year’s run of historic events won’t come easy for retailers, one of Britain’s most influential High Street executives has warned.
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Expensive lenders tempt women to borrow, but firms want self-regulation published yesterday at 20:08
<br/>Financial Mail has discovered several websites featuring pictures of young women laden with colourful shopping bags, though the industry claimed last week it was capable of 'setting the standard of self-regulation and consumer credit'.
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Battle against business rate rise gains ground as affluent Henley-on-Thames is being crushed published yesterday at 20:07
<br/>Independent shop owners are lining up to condemn Government plans to raise business rates as Financial Mail’s Reduce Our Rates campaign continues to attract a groundswell of support this weekend.
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Economy set for another £50bn boost as Sir Mervyn King expected to restart printing presses published yesterday at 20:07
<br/>In what would be the sixth round of quantitative easing, the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee is likely to take the total of its money-creation programme to a minimum of £325 billion, the equivalent of more than 22 per cent of gross domestic product.
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LISA BUCKINGHAM: Glencore boss may have as much sense as money published yesterday at 20:07
<br/>Any number of good-looking mergers have fallen apart because boardrooms didn’t want to give way. So we must listen a bit more seriously to the merger plans of Glencore and Xstrata.
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Supermarket giant Tesco uses another name to sell through online retailer Amazon published yesterday at 20:07
<br/>Tesco giant has been revealed as the ultimate seller of a range of goods – including DVDs and computer games – marketed on Amazon under the trading name of Oakwood Distribution Ltd. Oakwood is a subsidiary of Tesco.
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DAN ATKINSON: A guarantee of permanent austerity in the eurozone countries published yesterday at 20:06
<br/>Germany’s real achievement at last week's EU summit was the inclusion in the fiscal compact of what amounts to a balanced budget rule on eurozone countries. If implemented (a big if) it would be a cast-iron guarantee of permanent austerity.