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Property asking prices in Britain's richest borough drop by nearly £100,000... in a month

Today

Rightmove said the current average new asking price of a home in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea was £1,552,970 in August, about £95,000 less than in July.

Record rents for London offices as supply is squeezed

Today

Office rents in London hot spots look set to hit record highs as companies faced with the capital's supply squeeze compete for space.

JP Morgan boss warns Chancellor against higher taxes for banks ahead of Budget

Today

The boss of the America's largest bank has warned the Chancellor John Healey against a tax raid on the financial sector ahead of his first Budget.

I expected to get my police pension at 55, so why was it delayed at the last minute to 60? STEVE WEBB replies

Today

All my statements indicate that the pension is payable at 55. I have planned a lot around this retirement age. My mortgage is due to be paid off using some of my lump sum.

Britain is in the grips of a numeracy crisis and it leaves voters vulnerable, says RUTH SUNDERLAND

Today

Double Maths was, in my schooldays, an entry in the timetable that struck dread into the hearts of most pupils, other than the gifted few with a facility for figures.

M&s cashes in on formal wedding boom even as men opt for T-shirts in the office

Today

Marks & Spencer is betting big on a booming demand for suits as Britons dress up to the nines for black tie weddings.

Mastercard payment firm back in the black with £7.3m profit

Today

The payments company that handles the vast majority of salaries, household bills and state benefits has returned to profit.

How to downsize without regret: From picking the right property to location, here's what you MUST do

Yesterday

Karen Dempsey, 64, has always put family first. So when her daughter Jane, now 38, couldn't afford to buy a home for her growing family eight years ago, Karen knew what she would have to do.

How to get an amazing 7% on your cash savings and earn more than £550 from high street banks

Yesterday

The rates I'm getting even beat the average growth of the UK stock market - except unlike with investing, there is no danger that I will lose any of my money.

JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Burnham's first Budget will be horrific: You MUST protect your wealth - here's how

Yesterday

The Prime Minister is on the road this month, travelling the length and breadth of the UK in an attempt to reconnect his Labour government with the disillusioned British public. Fat chance there.

How to make sure you get care-home funding and never have to sell your house: Maria won £510,000 to look after her mum. Here are the exact steps she took

Yesterday

When Maria Espocito placed her mother in a care home, she knew she would need help covering fees of thousands of pounds every month. She feared she would have to sell the family home.

Reckitt faces court showdown over baby formula claims

Yesterday

Consumer goods giant Reckitt is set to face a US courtroom showdown tomorrow in the latest round of a lawsuit connected to its specialist baby formula products.

Burnham is right to challenge phoney bargains. Britain's supermarkets should compete on the price of the whole shop, not the size of the discount badge, says Aldi boss Giles Hurley

Yesterday

When a family sees a product advertised at half price, the starting price must mean something.

How the wheels came off at Aston Martin: James Bond car maker locked in row with investors over 'secret' offshore debt deal

Yesterday

Auditions are under way for a new James Bond - and Slow Horses star Jack Lowden is among those tipped to replace Daniel Craig after his 15 years in the coveted role as the fictional spy.

Top authors tell Andy Burnham to give small bookshops same tax relief as pubs

Yesterday

Fantasy author Sir Philip Pullman and children's laureate Patrice Lawrence are among those backing calls for the industry to be included in the business rates relief scheme introduced for pubs.

Aldi boss Giles Hurley blasts rivals' 'phoney' loyalty deals

Yesterday

Giles Hurley threw his support behind the Prime Minister's plan to crack down on what he called 'invented reductions' saying enforcement must be 'rigorous and targeted'.

Manfred Mann's Mike d'Abo: I wrote Handbags & Gladrags in the 1960s... but by the '80s had next to nothing in my bank

Yesterday

Mike d'Abo rose to fame in 1966, replacing Paul Jones as lead singer of Manfred Mann and notching up seven top-ten hits.

Burnham on borrowed time as Britain pays higher rate of interest to fund its debt than any other large developed country, says HAMISH MCRAE

Yesterday

Higher for longer. That's the only sensible assumption to make about the path for UK interest rates.

Queen of the property scene: Grainger boss Dame Helen Gordon is unruffled by Mike Ashley and raider Boaz Weinstein

Yesterday

Helen Gordon seems very calm, given not one but two of the City's most aggressive predators have taken stakes in Grainger, the property company she runs.

Top Tory calls for 'urgent' probe into HSBC freezing savings to appease Beijing

Yesterday

Shadow Foreign Secretary Priti Patel said the bank's denial of withdrawal requests was 'wholly wrong' and was being done to 'appease Beijing'.

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