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Citizens Advice is accusing councils of letting bailiffs get away with threatening and aggressive behaviour when collecting council tax debts.
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A proposed new law designed to improve consumer protection for purchasers of digital music risks being inconsistent, a committee of MPs has said.
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US technology giant Apple has signed a deal to bring its iPhone to China Mobile - the world's largest carrier.
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A bishop warns the UK risks "losing the safety net" the benefit system "should provide" as the new universal credit is brought in.
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Marks & Spencer has apologised after a Muslim member of staff refused to serve a customer trying to buy alcohol.
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The government's Help to Buy scheme to lift the housing market should be reconsidered, according to the Business Secretary Vince Cable.
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Thirteen people, including the two owners, are charged over a Bangladesh garment factory fire last year that killed more than 100 people.
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Retailers are trying to attract shoppers into the stores with pre-Christmas sales on what is thought to be the biggest retail weekend of the year.
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Should we fear reports of a looming global wine shortage?
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Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto signs a law that changes the constitution to allow foreign companies to drill for oil and gas for the first time since 1938.
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Cheap but not cheerful
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With just four days left to get your Christmas shopping done, retailers are slashing prices in a bid to get us spending.
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The German supermarket chain Aldi is planning to invest $3bn (£1.8bn) to open 650 new stores in the United States.
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Rupert Murdoch's media company NewsCorp buys Storyful, an Irish "social media news agency".
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Deutsche Bank is to pay 1.4bn euros to settle a lawsuit with US authorities over mortgage-backed products.
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The BBC appoints the Telegraph's Kamal Ahmed as its new business editor to succeed Robert Peston, who becomes economics editor.
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Economic growth in the US has been revised upwards for the third quarter, to its fastest pace since late 2011.
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Struggling smartphone maker Blackberry has agreed a five-year deal with Foxconn, the world's largest maker of electronic products and components.
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How might revelations made during the trial of Nigella Lawson's former personal assistants affect the TV chef's career?
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Banking woes haunt EU summit
20 Dec 2013 2:18:57
EU leaders finish two days of summit talks in Brussels amid doubts about an agreed banking union plan.
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China rejects 545,000 tons of imported US corn found to contain an unapproved genetically modified strain.
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The UK economy is growing faster than previously estimated, according to the latest official figures.
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Google is fined 900,000 euros (£751,000) for not doing enough to respect Spanish data protection laws
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Morrisons boss Dalton Philips tells the BBC about his supermarket's belated online shopping service.
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Sales of chocolate are predicted to jump to a record $117bn next year, pushing up prices.
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