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The Barclaycard advert which features a commuter travelling home from his office job via a gigantic fun waterslide has been voted the favourite TV advert of 2008 in a poll published by tellyAds.com. The website, which created the poll based on the number of times each ad was viewed on its site, said that in one month over 37,000 people had requested the ad.
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News for those Savers
Gordon Brown has announced that measures to assist savers could be included in this year's Budget, in a bid to offset the problem of low interest rates. Ahead of a speculated reduction in the current 2% interest rate this week, Mr Brown suggested that measures including increases in the tax-free allowance on income tax for pensioners or increases to ISA limits could be introduced.
MoneyFacts research has found that Nationwide reduced the rate on its Invest Direct account by 3.8% to 1.15% in 2008 - more than the total 3.5% of reductions in the Bank of England base rate. Other building societies which exceeded 3.5% in reductions on savings products include Norwich & Peterborough with its Postmaster 2 account and no-notice ISA, and Skipton with its no-notice branch ISA.
David Cameron has pledged to abolish tax on the savings income of all basic-rate taxpayers, as well as raise personal allowances for pensioners by £2,000 pa. The claims came as part of broader financial plans in the case of Conservative Party governance, including curbing the growth in public spending from 3.4% in 2008 to 2.6% in 2009, and tax breaks for companies which hire new staff.
Moneyfacts research has found that around 38% of savings accounts are now offering a rate of 1% or less on deposits of £5,000, compared to just 1% of accounts in January 2008. The website also predicted that the average savings rate will drop to the lowest level ever recorded should the base rate be further reduced this week.
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New Business Start ups
BBA has reported that the number of new businesses which opened in the three months to September 2008 decreased by 4% to 129,282, compared to an expected decline of between 10% and 15%. Is this news that the country isn't doing as bad as we think? Or is it just that more and more people are looking for ways to earn more money with their own business, or maybe a home based business, or an online venture?
The figures don't break down to what type of businesses are being started be they sole traders, franchises, MLMs, online or offline ventures, but hey at least they are still be started.
Barclays Bank has also reported no substantial decline in the number of people wanting to launch their own ventures in 2009, but suggested that it would decrease significantly as national income falls.
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Wednesday 7th of January 2009
Thunderball main numbers: 01,16,25,31,33
The thunderball was: 02
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