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Morrisons threatens to report Tesco over its price-comparison claims
Friday 05 April 2013
Morrisons is the latest big grocer to threaten to report Tesco to the advertising watchdog over its price-comparison claims and coupons.
Street disorder drops after Ipswich bans super-strength alcohol
Thursday 04 April 2013
Police say campaign stopping sale of strong cider and beer is improving safety
Britons get a taste for Cranswick's posh sausages after 'horsegate'
Thursday 04 April 2013
'Horsegate' might have put Britons off cheap sausages, but demand for Cranswick’s posh bangers such as wild vension with redcurrant and red wine and duck with red cherries and port is absolutely sizzling.
Stobart abruptly changes direction with new executive chairman stepping down
Tuesday 02 April 2013
Just three months after a boardroom coup saw Stobart Group claim it needed an executive chairman, the haulier today said that role was “no longer appropriate” and the woman in the post would vacate it immediately.
Money Insider: Take a long view for 0% on your balance transfer
Friday 29 March 2013
The battle between credit card companies striving to offer the longest zero per cent term for balance transfers shows no sign of fizzling out. The latest moves in this field means that it's now possible to borrow interest-free for 26 months if you meet the credit scoring criteria.
Revenue introduces a shock tax on fund rebates
Friday 29 March 2013
Investment groups were caught out this week after a surprise announcement from HM Revenue & Customs that it will tax rebate payments or loyalty bonuses.
Fastest growth posted by Sainsbury's
Wednesday 27 March 2013
The supermarket chain Sainsbury's has emerged as the fastest-growing of the big four grocers so far this year, putting rivals Tesco, Asda and Morrisons in the shade.
Why do we only hear one side of society in Sherborne's Tesco spat?
Tuesday 26 March 2013
The town's working class population have been left out of this debate
Peter Kay comedy series to air first on iPlayer
Monday 25 March 2013
The comedian Peter Kay will star in the first BBC series to be shown in its entirety on the catch-up service iPlayer before hitting television screens.
'Christian Easter eggs' fail to crack open supermarkets
Sunday 24 March 2013
Church groups appear to have failed in their attempt to crack the Easter egg market – after supermarkets refused to believe that “Christianity sells”.
Investment Insider: Best bets to sail through economic doldrums
Saturday 23 March 2013
In a few weeks time we will know if the UK has entered a dreaded triple-dip recession. So wouldn't it be good if you could assemble a portfolio of shares that could weather an economic downturn?
Anthony Rose: Keep it sweet
Saturday 23 March 2013
PX is a unique Spanish sweet wine that I discovered a while ago, so sweet in fact that it resulted in me having to make a trip to the dentist. PX, or Pedro, short for Pedro Ximénez, is one of the darkest, richest, stickiest wines in the world and by rights shouldn't exist as a wine at all. Oozing with viscous sucrosity, it's the perfect blending sweetener, in small doses, for cream sherry and sweet oloroso. Did someone dunk a finger in a cask of Pedro one day and think "I could get a pat on the back from the mouthwash industry for bottling this on its own"?
Shopping: Smaller sizes and higher prices? What’s new!
Friday 22 March 2013
A report from Which? published this week revealed that crafty manufacturers are shrinking packet sizes.
From Thorntons shortcake to Nestle chocolate and even Pledge polish: It's the incredible shrinking groceries rip-off
Thursday 21 March 2013
Shoppers getting less for their money as manufacturers reduce size of food packages
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- 2 'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Horrific attack brings terror to London’s streets
- 3 Grace Dent: I’m not sure how these people can avoid being called ‘bigots’. And the more ‘civilised’, the worse they are
- 4 Woolwich murder: They killed, then they performed - these men should be starved of our attention
- 5 Woolwich attack: The EDL will seek to exploit this evil crime for their own evil ends
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