Insurance staff need assurance

Today's mega-merger between CGU and Norwich Union reduces the York life assurance business to a yet smaller outpost in a yet larger empire. It has become an arm of the newly-created CGNU, suddenly Britain's largest insurance group with income and investments totalling £26 billion. Music to our ears

On Wednesday's National Lottery show there will be a guaranteed York winner. The city's National Centre for Early Music is to be featured on the programme, giving it some wonderful exposure.

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