With many thousands of people across the country looking to find a debt solution, close to half admit to owning an expensive item of clothing that rarely leaves their wardrobe. In addition, the latest figures show that the typical UK…
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Research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation discovered that, despite an overall fall in the number of people who are “very poor”, there are more Britons living in poverty now than was the case 15 years ago. Furthermore, the study reveals…
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Alastair Mathews, director of policy at the Personal Finance Education Group (PFEG), has welcomed the government’s plan to extend the provision of personal finance lessons and suggested that the new measures might go some way to establishing a less indebted…
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Research from Fidelity International shows that the typical British household spends close to £2,000 on eating in restaurants and staying at hotels each year, as well as more than £750 on alcoholic drinks. Furthermore, with consumers across the country aiming…
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Millions of people across the country are struggling to deal with their debt management demands and more than four million credit card repayments have been missed in the last half-year, according to MoneyExpert. Figures from the financial comparison firm show…
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Figures from Abbey show that around 18 per cent of homeowners have had to pay for damage caused by builders, with the average cost amounting to more than £200. In addition, almost one in 20 homeowners have seen poor workmanship…
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The Bank of England has put up interest rates by 1.25 per cent over the course of the past year in an effort to cool inflation, but new figures have found that the London luxury property market continued to grow…
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The Times argues that there are as many as 420,000 empty homes across the UK and suggests that, instead of building new properties to help reduce the amount of debt being taken on by first time buyers, the government should…
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