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  1. The proportion of home buyers who are purchasing a house for the first time has dropped to its lowest level this year, figures show.
  2. An operation is under way to fly back to the UK thousands of people left stranded after Flyglobespan, Scotland's biggest airline, collapsed.
  3. The number of people unemployed in the UK rose by 21,000 between August and October to 2.49 million.
  4. UK council leaders are attending a creditors' meeting in Iceland to seek repayment from one of the country's ruined banks.
  5. JJB Sports has reported a huge drop in sales for the last six months, following a year of financial problems.
  6. Scotland's biggest airline, Edinburgh-based Flyglobespan, has been placed in administration.
  7. Cheques will be phased out by October 2018, but only if adequate alternatives are developed, the body that oversees payments strategy says.
  8. House prices are still being driven up by a relative shortage of properties for sale, a surveyors body says.
  9. A date to end the era of writing a cheque could be set later, when a banking body meets to decide whether to phase them out.
  10. Lloyds Banking Group's record rights issue has been hailed a success after investors bought 95% of the shares on offer.
  11. UK inflation picked up pace in November, rising to 1.9% from 1.5% the month before, after petrol prices rose.
  12. London could be pushed into third place as a global financial centre by Shanghai in the next decade, according to a report.
  13. Two men involved in a £1m "boiler room" share-selling scam have been found guilty of conspiracy to commit fraud.
  14. Dubai's government has announced it has been given a $10bn (£6.13bn) handout from neighbour Abu Dhabi to help it pay off its debts.
  15. The government savings organisation, National Savings & Investments (NS&I), has withdrawn some of its most attractive accounts.
  16. Parts of the state pension will be frozen in April despite the chancellor's pledge that it would rise by 2.5%, the BBC learns.
  17. Time could be called on insurance laws which campaigners say leaves thousands of claims being unfairly rejected each year.
  18. Experts have criticised fresh changes to the pension system for adding a greater burden to employers running schemes.
  19. The maximum penalty for offshore tax dodging will double to 200% of the unpaid tax, the government has announced in its pre-Budget report.
  20. The Bank of England holds UK interest rates at 0.5% and makes no changes to the quantitative easing programme.