Publication: This Is Money

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 1 reports

Gambling group Coral to sell Gala Bingo before float

Gambling group Gala Coral will try to sell its bingo halls before floating the Coral betting shops.The decision follows damaging claims of the addictiveness of fixed odds betting machines, uncertainty over the rate of online gambling tax and what insiders ... [Published This Is Money - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Gambling, Gala Coral Group Ltd, Andy Hornby

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 1 reports

Galliford Try plc

MIDAS SHARE TIPS: Builder we tipped doubles as cheap land boosts its profits

Housebuilder and construction group Galliford Try has doubled in value since Midas recommended it at 4761?2p in January last year.Last week it closed at 995p after a reassuring update on current trading.The strong price increase poses one key question ... [Published This Is Money - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Galliford Try plc, Cheap, Bail-Out, Rising Prices, Verdict

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 1 reports

Banks accused of sabotaging deals made by online lender Funding Circle

Banks have been accused of deliberately making it difficult for small businesses to borrow through a crowdfunding website by delaying paperwork and charging high fees.Funding Circle, which has arranged more than £100million of lending to firms since it ... [Published This Is Money - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Sabotage, British Bankers' Association, Companies House

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 1 reports

Technology start-ups set to benefit from £440m investment boost

Technology firms are set to benefit from a £440million investment in the Government agency for innovation and growth ? the Technology Strategy Board.That is £50million more than it received from the Department for Business last year.Every pound invested ... [Published This Is Money - 7 hours ago]

Entities: East London, Silicon Valley, Enterprise

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 1 reports

Market bosses pitch their stalls at entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs and shoppers are being urged to support their local street markets in a campaign running until May 29.Love Your Local Market will feature more than 2,200 events at more than 600 markets this fortnight.It began last year in response to the ... [Published This Is Money - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Entrepreneur, Market, Graham Wilson

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 1 reports

Moody's Corporation

New chief at Co-op Euan Sutherland pleas for calm over troubled bank

The new chief executive of the Co-operative Group has used his first speech to the mutual?s AGM to calm fears over a financial crisis at the banking business.Euan Sutherland told delegates in Manchester: ?Traditional capitalist models are not providing ... [Published This Is Money - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Euan Sutherland, Moody's Corporation, B&Q, Kingfisher, Lloyds Banking Group Plc

First reported 8 hours ago - Updated 8 hours ago - 1 reports

Sir Mervyn King

Osborne's mortgage guarantee scheme might boost the property market but it must be ditched, King warns

There is 'no place in the long run' for the Chancellor's Help to Buy scheme, Sir Mervyn King has warned.The outgoing governor of the Bank of England says that George Osborne's plan to boost the housing market is in danger of replicating mistakes made ... [Published This Is Money - 8 hours ago]

Entities: Mortgages, Sir Mervyn King, Treasury Select Committee, United Kingdom, Replication

First reported 15 hours ago - Updated 14 hours ago - 1 reports

Financial adviser who stole money from wealthy clients given two-year prison sentence

A financial adviser who stole money from his wealthy clients and their children ? first reported by the in 2009 ? has been sentenced to 24 months in prison.Ronald Bassett-Cross, 70, from Bromley in Kent, was sentenced on May 17 at the Old Bailey.He had ... [Published This Is Money - 15 hours ago]

Entities: Financial Adviser, prison, David Parkinson, Sentencing, Brian Barker

First reported 19 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 1 reports

A nation of deluded handymen? DIY disasters cost each UK household £138 a year

Billions of pounds worth of damage every year is caused in British households by do-it-yourself jobs gone wrong, research indicates.The big DIY warehouses were a-buzz last May bank holiday, as they will be the next one, but it seems many of the handymen ... [Published This Is Money - 19 hours ago]

Entities: Disaster, United Kingdom, Warehouseman

First reported 20 hours ago - Updated 19 hours ago - 1 reports

'Inflation could become entrenched if we let it go too high' warns Bank of England rate setter

A warning that inflation could become 'entrenched' if the Bank of England allows it to exceed the Government's target has been sounded by one of the Bank of England's interest rate setters.'Failure to damp sufficiently any new shock pushing up inflation ... [Published This Is Money - 20 hours ago]

Entities: Inflation, Bank of England, Setter

First reported 21 hours ago - Updated 21 hours ago - 1 reports

How failing to name an heir is swelling the coffers of the Treasury, Her Majesty and Prince Charles

The Queen may be loved, but even the most devout monarchist would stop short of bequeathing their estate to the Crown.The assets of more and more people are finding their way into the pockets of Her Majesty, Prince Charles, or the Treasury because they ... [Published This Is Money - 21 hours ago]

Entities: Prince Charles, Pannone LLP, Intestate

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 3 reports

FTSE CLOSE: Banking shares helps Footsie power on as Lloyds shares pass key break even mark

5.30 (CLOSE): Buoyant banks helped the FTSE 100 Index return to winning ways as shares in state-backed Lloyds Banking Group passed a key threshold today.The blue-chip index was back on track with a rise of 35.3 points to 6723.1, after suffering its first ... [Published This Is Money - May 17 2013]

Entities: Stocks, Ocado Group PLC, Index, FTSE

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It said: "The unintended and unwelcome outcome could well be that a scheme designed to deal with a supposedly temporary problem in the UK housing market becomes a permanent feature of the UK housing market."

Osborne's mortgage guarantee scheme might boost the property market but it must be ditched, King ... [Published This Is Money - 8 hours ago]

...'Detective Constable David Parkinson of the City of London Police, who led the investigation, said: "Bassett-Cross was a senior accountant entrusted with fulfilling the dying financial wishes of his clients."

Financial adviser who stole money from wealthy clients given two-year prison sentence [Published This Is Money - 15 hours ago]

Wilko's DIY expert, Karen Jefferys, said: "We fully understand how daunting DIY can be for beginners and even those who are more experienced, but it should be a pleasure, not a chore which causes arguments and expensive mistakes."

A nation of deluded handymen? DIY disasters cost each UK household £138 a year [Published This Is Money - 19 hours ago]

"Failure to damp sufficiently any new shock pushing up inflation would result in inflationary expectations becoming more entrenched" said Dr Martin Weale in a speech to the British-American Business Council

'Inflation could become entrenched if we let it go too high' warns Bank of England rate setter [Published This Is Money - 20 hours ago]

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