According to figures published in the Nationwide building societies most recent survey the end of 2010 saw the cost of houses barely rise from the amount that they were at the beginning of the year.
The uncertainty of employment and general hard economic climate of the year meant that the demand for [...]
Figures recently released by the Health Protection Agency confirm that the number of people in the UK that have died this winter from flu related illnesses has risen to thirty-nine.
After many requests have been made to the government to re-launch an advertising programme to advise people how to take precautions to [...]
After what seemed a pretty dismal and disappointing overall performance in the last match England were in superb form this time at Melbourne and comprehensively beat Australia by an innings and 157 runs to retain the Ashes.
The fourth test victory by the England cricket team means that this is the first [...]
Top online retailing giant Amazon.com have shown that one of it’s best selling toys which is topping their sales charts is the new model Syma S107 that has recently been released.
For those people still looking for a belated Xmas present or to spend some of the Christmas money they got from Santa then the chart [...]
Interest rates are set to rise in 2011, at least according to a new report from the CBI. CBI experts are forecasting that interest rates will rise by around 0.2 percent within the first four months of next year. The CBI also says that it expects the Bank of England will then raise rates [...]
Severe winter weather has hit the United States as sweeping blizzards travelled north up the eastern coast and into Canada. The artic type weather has brought devastation to transport networks with road and rail traffic being disrupted and airports being forced to cancel many flights.
The normally busy period of time just [...]
In line with the Flood and Water Management Act 2010 and the new responsibilities that local authorities have now been given West Midlands councils have been awarded £1.85 million in grants to aid their flood protection programmes.
The Environment Secretary has said that the flood protection grants had been allocated to the [...]
Recent data released by the Department of Health have shown that the number of seriously ill people admitted to hospital with flu has increased from Mondays figure of 302 to 460 on Thursday.
Although these numbers represent a 50% increase over the last 72 hours the authorities have said that this still [...]
Motoring organisations have said that they expect considerable amounts of traffic on UK highways on Thursday as motorists take to the roads in their millions to do last minute shopping trips and also begin their journeys to visit relatives.
With the recent snow falls in most areas of the country and the [...]
New research carried out by Virgin Money has shown that on average most home and car insurance policyholders will not look to move from their existing insurance provider and will even be prepared to stand a premium increase of up to 8% before searching around for more competitive premiums.
This reluctance on [...]
