Customers who have faced significant losses during the Icelandic banking crisis can put their mind at ease as British banks, building societies and credit unions have recently announced that they will pay out over £1 billion to help them. The payments fell due as a consequence of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme being unable to retrieve the entire amount owed by the estates of Icesave, Heritable B ...

Since May, the OECD has increased its growth forecast for the UK economy from 0.8% up to 1.5% and has tentatively promised that the figure will continue to rise. After recently completing its latest assessment of global prospects, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has announced that, although global growth as a whole seems to be sticking to a slower pace; the UK, North America and Ja ...

Clean, clear, safe sustainable energy. Isn’t that what we all want - without worrying about whether or not we are harming the environment, or if it is going to run out anytime soon? Now that the Iter project is back on track, it is a distinct possibility. Iter, or International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, is located at the Cadarache facility in the south of France and is the world’s largest experime ...

Recently in a political report, a Downing Street spokesperson announced that the Government’s newly proposed lobbying reform could still be subject to further changes. The Government’s plans to impose  new legislation on the British lobbying industry have been received with huge criticism and have sparked an ardent controversy among several politicians. The legislation, issued by Prime Minister David Camero ...

The annual rates of adoptions in England and Wales have rose by almost 10 per cent between 2011 and 2012, new figures from the Office for National Statistics  have confirmed. The increase represents the highest annual rate of adoption since figures started being compiled fifteen years ago. The statistics show that approximately 5,200 children have found a loving home during 2012, which indicates a 9.8 perce ...

As the number of victims of online abuse escalated in the past few months, Internet providers have recently decided upon taking strong measures against online harassment. Even though social networks such as Twitter and Facebook have been linked to cases of online abuse in the past, with a particular increase in the last four years, it had not been until recently that both websites along with search engines ...

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So you’ve brought your own home and everything is wonderful,  but then you are offered a new job and have to relocate. You need to sell your house, and fast, so you decide to use a quick house sale firm because, after all, some companies have told you it could take as little as a week - all you have to do is knock a little off your asking price. It sounds like an amazing plan, but you haven’t been told the ...