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There's a good reason why former 1920s RAF base Bicester Heritage looks like a historic motoring fan's idea of heaven, it's a classic car business centre dreamt up by one. Bicester Heritage, with its 30 businesses on one elegant site, is the brainchild of businessman Dan Geoghegan, who believed that the fragmented but highly-valuable British classic car industry needed a new way of working. We paid it a visit.
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FTSE CLOSE: City slumps into gloom as UK construction activity falls to lowest level seen since 2009
The FTSE 100 closed down 48.55 points at 6645.40 as traders digested another poor update from the UK construction industry. The US Dow Jones fell 116.7 points to 18,287.8 while Germany's DAX was down 186.2 points at 10,144.3 and France's CAC 40 was off 81.2 points at 4,328. Brent crude fell below $42 a dollar. Market players were also disappointed by Japan's decision to opt for a massive Government spending package to stimulate its ailing economy, rather than its central bank going on another substantial money-printing and asset-buying spree.
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Supermarkets cut petrol prices, but as campaigners ask 'who is fleecing the motorist' should costs be lower?
Britain's biggest supermarkets are cutting the cost of filling up at the pumps, after facing criticism for failing to pass on falling wholesale costs to consumers. Supermarkets are dropping the price of petrol and diesel by up to 2p per litre. However, the FairFuelUK campaign said the cuts did not go far enough and price falls do not reflect the drop in wholesale costs.
Selling your property tax-free may be about to get tougher after call for crackdown on CGT dodgers using £18bn homeowners' tax break
Selling a home could come in for more tax scrutiny after a report from the National Audit Office warned it is worried about the abuse of tax relief given to homeowners. The report was mainly concerned with a lack of oversight allowing owners to take advantage of the system and claiming it when they shouldn't - for example by saying they lived somewhere they didn't or by flipping residency at properties. We explain what's going on?
Is this the most expensive home on the planet? Opulent French villa on the Côte d'Azur is valued at an astonishing £250m
Villa Les Cedres is in Saint Jean Cap Ferrat, a refuge between Nice and Monaco for some of the world's richest people. Built in 1830, the villa was sold in 1924 to Alexandre Marnier Lapostolle, owner of the Grand Marnier liquor brand. It is now up for sale by its owner, drinks maker Campari and could fetch a believed world record £250m.
Black hole in Britain's final salary pension schemes grows to a record £390BILLION
The black hole in Britain's defined benefit schemes, including final salary schemes, has soared to a record £390billion, new data reveals. In the past year, the deficit of all UK private sector defined benefit schemes has rocketed by £135billion, equating to an increase of £2.6billion a week, JLT Employee Benefits said. With the Bank of England potentially cutting interest rates on Thursday, the crisis affecting many older types of 'gold-plated' company pensions looks set to continue.
Are the state pension triple lock's days numbered? PM says guarantee isn't under threat despite experts saying it's 'not sustainable'
Prime Minister Theresa May and her team were forced to deny plans to slash state pension payouts for millions of Britons, over the weekend. A memo, written by Baroness Ros Altmann, who was pensions minister until stepping down when the new Prime Minister started, stated the guarantee would not be affordable if the economy hit trouble and that it had 'fulfilled its purpose'.
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We read with great interest your recent stories about FedEx and its charges. We were in the US in May and left behind a Fitbit activity wristband. The hotel offered to ship it to the UK if we supplied our card details, which we did. But my card bill was for £82 which seemed excessive. Shipping documents said the weight was 1.2kg yet the wristband weighs only 30g.
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Factory slowdown sees manufacturing slump to three-year low after Brexit, as Bank of England gears up for potential rate cut
Activity in Britain's manufacturing sector has slumped to its lowest level for more than three years, new data reveals. The closely watched Markit/CIPS Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index dropped to 48.2 in July, down significantly from June's reading of 52.4. The news comes ahead of the Bank of England's inflation report and interest rate decision, widely expected to see rates cut.
MARKET REPORT: Cost-cuts and a dividend rise lift hopes at engineering solutions firm Senior but profits fall 24%
The firm said trading in its emissions control products division, Flexonics, was subdued and there were no signs of recovery yet. It is focusing on cost cutting including reducing staff numbers and directing production to its more competitive locations such as Mexico and Malaysia. But the aerospace division is doing well and the firm said it expects a stronger second half of the year.
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Top Kia: RAY MASSEY visits the Korean car firm's secret research base where Britain's appalling roads are replicated complete with potholes and ruts
You probably have a better chance of sneaking into the dark dictatorship of North Korea than getting into Kia's vast, top-secret research and development complex creating its next generation of cars bound for British showrooms. But this week, I managed to do just that - as one of the first group of journalists to be granted access to the fast-growing firm's high-security Namyang R&D; facility and test track an hour's drive south-west of South Korea's capital, Seoul.
The timewarp Top Trump supercars: Barely-driven Lamborghini Diablo and Porsche 911 poster boys tipped to sell for stellar sums
They were poster boys in the 80s and 90s and now two iconic supercars are on sale having barely been run in since the days when they adorned bedroom walls. However, don't expect these two low-mile exotic motors to come cheap. The ice-blue Lamborghini Diablo SV (main picture) is listed for £270,000, almost £100,000 more than it cost when on sale in 1995, while the Porsche 911 Carrera (inset) has more than tripled in price since it rolled off the production line 31 years ago.
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There are five million credit cards which, at their current repayment rate, may never be cleared. They're a problem for all of us, even those who clear their balance in full. The economy is hamstrung by this debt and chances are you know a relative or friend who is buried under it - although it's not something they'll often come clean about.
How good is your work pension? Nine top 'default' funds are put to the test - does yours measure up?
Many savers end up in their employer's 'default' funds, which are chosen for the workplace as a whole. They tend to play investments pretty safe to avoid any costly blunders with workers' savings. But pension consultant Punter Southall Aspire put nine to the test - and found they don't follow a standard model at all.
The 12 classic cars that rose the most in a year: Fiat Dino takes top spot, but buyers drive up price of more modest classics
While the top-end of the classic car market may commandeer the headlines, more affordable motors feature heavily in a list of top risers as new investors buy classics. The little-known Fiat Dino, pictured, has been named as the top riser - and more humble classics such as the Peugeot 205 GTI, Land Rover Defender, VW MK1 Golf GTI and Morris Traveller have also all risen by more than a third in value.
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