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Norwich Union International, Aviva's Dublin-based offshore business, has reported strong new business figures.

Norwich Union says financial advisers should encourage their clients to build a balanced portfolio rather than investing in a small number of funds or sectors, in order to spread risk more evenly.

Norwich Union is introducing a five-year money-back guarantee on all new with-profit fund investments in its portfolio investment bond.

A former paratrooper who worked on a television programme highly critical of the British army on Bloody Sunday believed soldiers were behind a series of threatening phone calls made to him after it was broadcast, he revealed today.