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Britain's biggest supermarket Tesco is to slash petrol prices by up to 5p a litre in response to moves by Asda and Morrisons

Mortgage borrowers hunting out the best deals are being hit by soaring costs with arrangement fees leaping by 20% over the past year

Vodafone is seeing revenues being hit in Europe, but it's increasingly becoming an Indian growth story with almost 50m customers already on the sub-continent.

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Emma Wright built a mansion in Kent and made a £1.2m profit. She's now investing it in 30 buy-to-let homes

LONDON (Reuters) - An emergency fund-raising by HBOS, Britain's biggest home lender, flopped as investors took just 8.3 percent of the shares, leaving underwriters trying to sell almost 3.8 billion pounds of shares that are currently under water.

A clutch of high street lenders have cut their mortgage rates over the last couple of weeks. Is the mortgage misery beginning to end?

Cash-strapped holidaymakers are being hit by surcharges on their well-earned getaway, as one couple found when their cruise rose in price by £892

Shares in Dawnay Day property funds have plummeted, but should you catch those falling knives? Padraig O'Hannelly is tempted....

Over a quarter of Satnav users continue to follow instructions which take drivers down unsuitable country lanes, according to a survey by rural insurer NFU Mutual. Concerned about continuing high levels of accidents on rural roads - government statistics show that car users are three times more likely to die on a country road than an urban one -the rural insurer is urging all rural road users to take special care as tourist traffic and harvesting both get underway.