Abbey National Plc.

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• British Technology Firms to Launch Digital-Television Service.

  - 1999-05-02

  Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 29 -- The couch potato's dream moved a radical step closer to reality today as WH Smith, Abbey National, Airtours and Manchester United signed up to a deal that within six months will allow punters to get almost everything...

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• British Internet Company to Launch Online Bookstore.

  - 1999-04-29

  Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 30 -- Will personal computers or TV sets provide the key to home shopping? WH Smith is hedging its bets and backing both. Just two days after launching its own Internet service it yesterday linked up with interactive digital...

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• City & Business: Who fancies a quick thrill with the Abbey?

  - 1997-02-02

  Abbey National is presenting itself as the bungee's friend with its opportunistic offer to buy Scottish Amicable. Bungee in this context should be taken to mean a policyholder who receives a bung in the form of shares or other financial incentives not the mechanism by which people hurl themselves from...

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