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Junk mail to buy a Baby Bond Trust Fund account from The Children’s Mutual.
The Children’s Mutual is a shrewd marketer. Their letter and voucher have the clean interface of those type of documents from public services which profusely include multirracial pictures. ,The Children’s Mutual’s letter reads read like a letter from public services: “Baby Bond [...]

Template of a letter “Visit by Debt Investigation Officer” of the debt collection company “Buchanan Clark Wells” in Glasgow. The styling of the font matches the original letter:
VISIT BY DEBT INVESTIGATION OFFICER
Dear Mr. A**** B*****
We regret to note your account with British Gas Trading for £1XX.XX remains outstanding.
You were informed in our last correspondence of [...]

Spanish hotels recorded 19.7 nights in April 2009, a 2.0% increase as compared with the same month in 2008. This increase was partially due to the Easter Week, whose positive seasonality compared favorably with 2008.
The Hotel Price Index (HPI) registered a decrease of 3.9% in the month of April, 3.4 points lower than that recorded [...]

Laura Whateley’s funny yet acurate article about Ryanair shortlists twenty reasons never to fly Ryanair:
1. 1p flights are never 1p
2. The check-in charge
3. The baggage charge
4. The sneaky weight limit
5. Queues glorious queues
6. The additional baggage charge
7. The website is rubbish. On purpose.
8. Premium rate internet helpline
9. You can only fly cheap mid week
10. You [...]

Swift codes of Spanish banks sorted by alphabetical order. Obtained from the Spanish Central Bank, Banco de España:

Name of the bank
BIC

AAREAL BANK AG
AARBESM1XXX

ABBEY NATIONAL BANK, S.A.E.
ABBKESM1XXX

ABN AMRO BANK N.V., S.E.
ABNAESMMXXX

ALLFUNDS BANK, S.A.
ALLFESMMXXX

ALLIED BANKING CORPORATION
ABCMESM1XXX

ALTAE BANCO, S.A.
AHCRESVVXXX

ARESBANK, S.A.
AREBESMMXXX

ARGENTARIA, CAJA POSTAL Y BANCO HIPOTECARIO, S.A.
BBVAESMMXXX

ASSOCIATES CAPITAL [...]

Anthony Hilton writes a column called “City Comment” on the Evening Standard. He is usually entertaining when he debunks the news on banks and insurers in London.
Being from a country whose banking system is in chaos this statement in his article this week borders the ridicule:
When you look across the world at how different countries [...]

British Airways reported record profits in 2007 but they also broke another record: losing my baggage on the same route twice. British Airways has the poorest record of lost, damaged or mishandled baggages among 24 European airlines.
The Air Transport Users Council published in 2007 that British Airways mishandles the baggage of 23 passengers in 1,000. [...]