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Citywire Investment News

  • FSA: four risks for advisers in run-up to RDR
    Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:40:44 GMT
    The Financial Services Authority has highlighted four areas, including quality of advice and governance, it says advisers should focus on during the upheaval of the next two years.

BBC Business News

  • BA strike talks end without deal
    Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:31:47 GMT
    Talks between British Airways and Unite aimed at averting strike action by cabin crew break down without agreement.
  • Pompey axe 85 jobs to cut costs
    Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:31:12 GMT
    Administrators at Portsmouth FC start to make employees redundant, with 85 people losing their jobs.
  • Banks face harsher stress tests
    Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:04:24 GMT
    Further stress-testing of UK banks will take place to ensure they can survive a 'double-dip' recession, regulators say.
  • British Gas faces strike ballot
    Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:55:33 GMT
    British Gas workers are to vote in a strike ballot over allegations of bullying by management, and on changes to working conditions.

BBC News

  • Body found in missing mother hunt
    Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:10:58 GMT
    Police searching for a Dundee mother-of-three who went missing two weeks ago believe they have found her body.
  • EU to back bluefin tuna trade ban
    Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:57:43 GMT
    EU nations decide to support a ban on international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna until stocks recover.
  • Afghan anxieties
    Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:37:19 GMT
    Why the UK fears politics and force are out of synch
  • BA strike talks end without deal
    Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:31:47 GMT
    Talks between BA and the Unite union aimed at averting strike action by cabin crew break down without agreement.

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