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Wesabe and Telegraph Media Group Partner to Provide UK Readers With Personal Finance Management Tool (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Social personal finance website Wesabe and Telegraph Media Group, publisher of the UK's biggest selling quality daily newspaper The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph and Telegraph.co.uk , announced a partnership to bring free money management tools to the Telegraph's readers.

Jessica wins stunning £170000 for vet

Our consumer champion's intervention wins payout on critical illness policy.

Gilts ride to income seekers' rescue

Low interest rates are bad news for savers. Gilts could be the answer.

3000 Post Offices saved after Government scraps competitive card process

Three thousand post offices could be saved from closure after the Government announced a major reversal of its policy on the postal network.

Grab a savings deal before rates hit zero

Interest rates are falling so now's the time to lock in to a good deal.

Prudential cuts withprofits bonus rates by 10pc

Withprofits savers with Prudential will receive up to 10pc less if their policies mature this year compared with 2007.

Price of personal loans expected to increase following PPI proposals

The cost of personal loans is expected to increase after banks were told they should be banned from loading them with "extortionate" insurance policies.

Standard rates may be best deal for borrowers

Borrowers coming to the end of cheap mortgage rates could be better off staying with their existing lender, rather than switching to a new deal, following last week's base rate cut.

Wealthy homeowners flock to release equity

Owners of properties worth half a million pounds or more are releasing equity from them in far greater numbers, despite an overall slowdown in the equity release market.

Tax refunds for heirs

Bereaved families may be able to slash inheritance tax bills because of plunging property and share prices.

Gilts are looking good after interest rate cut

Last week's dramatic interest rate cut has prompted fixed-income fund managers to buy into gilts in the belief that they will offer more attractive returns than other asset classes

Depleted retirement funds

Pension savers nearing retirement are having to make large top-ups to their schemes or defer taking benefits

Flat sales for flat-pack homes

Prefabricated homes feel the impact of adverse economic winds

Treasury to keep banks at arm's length

The state's £37bn stake in part-nationalised banks will be held at arm's length with no direct boardroom representation, say those charged with managing the investments

Number of people facing bankruptcy hits 20000 Ministry of Justice figures show

Bankruptcy levels reach their second highest since 1995.

Britain faces whiplash epidemic

The number of people with avoidable whiplash injuries is soaring.

News Headlines

The triple whammy

Last week inflation shot up, the dollar slumped and the FTSE100 index hit a six-year high. Paul Farrow looks at the implications - good and bad.

The new kid on the checkout

Google's rival to PayPal has hit our shores. So which online payment system should you use? Paula Hawkins logs on.

Letters to Liz

Liz Dolan answers readers' questions.

Beware the mortgage carrot

With mortgage rates certain to go up, the offers being dangled in front of us by some lenders seem irresistible. But don't be beguiled by the juicy headline rate, warns Paul Farrow: you'll pay the price for it later.

Money Editor's Comment

Why Hargreaves isn't starry-eyed. By Paul Farrow.

50 ways to make yourself richer

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What the brokers' say

Top brokers give their views on Tesco, Paddy Power, and others.

DATA SNAP: UK's Brown Beats Government FY07 PSNB Target (The Forex Market)

LONDON (Dow Jones)--U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown has met most of his public finance targets for fiscal year 2006-7, despite worse than expected borrowing figures in March.

UK Q1 GDP up 0.7pc from previous quarter (Ireland Business World)

Another strong performance from the services sector helped the UK economy grow by more than expected during the first three months of the year and above its long-run average for the fifth quarter running, official figures showed today.

UK Q1 GDP up 0.7 pct from previous quarter for third quarter running (Sharewatch)

In its preliminary estimate for the first quarter, the Office of National Statistics revealed that the UK economy grew by 0.7 pct from the previous quarter, above expectations for growth of 0.6 pct.

DATA SNAP: UK 1Q GDP At Trend, Above Expectations -2- (The Forex Market)

The ONS said the main reason for solid growth in the first quarter was a 0.8% rise in service sector output. Service industries account for around 70% of the U.K. economy.

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