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Buyers are burning the fingers of Prometheus.

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From: Financial Adviser
Date: 20061116
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If you had read the newspapers of late, you may well think that, to quote Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Abbey was somewhat of a modern Prometheus. It has, if you will follow the metaphor, reached up to the gods and brought fire down to the common man. This fire being a way on to the property ladder.

Maybe it was a slow news day, but Abbey's move to offer a five-times salary product captured the public's imagination. No matter then, in a fact that was glossed over, that other providers either offer a similar product, the Yorkshire Building Society for example, or have one in ...

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