English councils may soon be able to get additional funding from the government to help them provide weekly bin collections after it was announced today that a fund of £250 million was being made available.
The funds however will only be available to councils that can fulfil certain requirements that have been [...]
Some of the countries leading surgeons have said that delays in treatment and poor after care could be putting the lives of thousands of non-cardiac surgery patients in the NHS at risk.
Concern was being shown by the Royal College of Surgeons that some patients suffering from abdominal emergencies were not being [...]
In a spectacular event today the Amazon boss Jeff Bezos unveiled the companies new Kindle Fire which is a colour tablet computer using a modified operating system version of Google’s Android.
The product which will no doubt be in much demand, especially with Christmas fast approaching, is due to be priced at [...]
Recently announced the Nationwide Building Society have now added free travel insurance cover for the 65 to 75 year age group as part of the package included within their FlexAccount current account.
The FlexAccount is the Nationwide’s flagship account and previously excluded travel insurance for any new customers over 65 years-old.
The insurance [...]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is reportedly discussing new rescue plans to aid eurozone countries struggling under the immense burden of crippling national debt.
The Washington based IMF may be looking at an ambitious plan to write-down as much as 50 per cent of the government debt now owed by Greece plus enlarge [...]
The Office of Fair Trading have received a complaint from the watchdog group Consumer Focus who are asking it to initiate an investigation into the potentially high currency charges that contribute nearly £1 billion to the industry every year.
Items that have been brought to the attention of Consumer Focus are the [...]
The redesigned and relaunched website of House of Fraser seems to have captured the imagination of internet shoppers as the company announced that their sales online had seen over 100 per cent growth in the first six months of it’s financial year to 30 July.
The privately-owned company said that it’s gross [...]
The last nine months of unsettled stock markets have had drastic effects on savers with both Individual Savings Accounts (Isas) and those with pensions. Experts have said that over this turbulent period of time the pension people are now able to get from their savings fund has dropped by 14 per cent.
A pension [...]
Industry regulator Ofcom have released their latest collated data regarding the telephone and broadband providers and it highlights that TalkTalk have received the most complaints in the period from April to June this year.
Ofcom have confirmed however that since their last report TalkTalk had got better.
The company receiving the fewest complaints [...]
The treasury department of the government is set to gain a massive windfall of £197 million in VAT payments from the recent price increases imposed by the “Big-Six” energy suppliers according to the independent price comparison site, Energyhelpline.com.
The increases now being brought into force by the energy suppliers means [...]
