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Following the decision by the Monetary Policy Committee to reduce the Bank of England Bank Rate by 0.50% to 1.50%, Halifax announces it will pass the full 0.50% reduction on to existing tracker mortgage customers from 1st February 2009. Halifax will also reduce its SVR from 4.75% to 4.50% at the same time.

Britain's leading lowest price supermarket rounded off one of its best years with a solid Christmas trading performance that beat its sales expectation despite some industry predictions that 2008 would be the worst Christmas for retailers for more than 20 years.

UK consumers receive an average broadband speed of 3.6Mbit/s new Ofcom research reveals. This compares with an average maximum possible speed of 4.3Mbit/s across the UK.

As the arctic weather conditions continue to sweep across the nation, almost half of UK over-50s (48 per cent) are worried about paying their winter fuel bill, according to new research by Post Office Financial Services.