As 2011 comes to a close most stock markets around the world finished what was a turbulent and difficult year with significant falls compared to the previous 12 months.
In Europe the German DAX fell by 15 per cent and the French CAC dropped 18 per cent while the UK FTSE 100 [...]
The Nationwide building society have said that the stagnation of house prices experienced in 2011 is likely to continue well into 2012 as the economic climate remains unchanged.
Figures gathered by the Nationwide have shown that there was a drop of 0.2 per cent in December for average home values compared to [...]
A contract for 130 carriages has been awarded to the Derby based train making company Bombardier and it is hoped that the £188 million deal will help to secure the future for the firm after earlier in the year hearing that the Department for Transport had awarded the £1.4 billion Thameslink [...]
A study conducted by HTTP Archive of the top 1,000 sites on the internet has revealed that the content size of the average webpage is steadily growing and is now approximately 965 kilobytes in size compared to the average of 726 kilobytes recorded in 2010.
The 33 per cent increase in webpage [...]
There was history in the making today at Kempton Park racecourse when the King George VI Chase was won for the fifth time by Kauto Star.
Ruby Walsh was riding the popular 11-year-old in a race which it had dominated from 2006 for four successive years and continued it’s winning streak today [...]
New rights are due to come into effect for UK agency workers that could see them getting a conditions and pay boost.
In the future all agency workers will get equal rights to all directly employed workers after they have completed 12 weeks work in their jobs according to a new Agency [...]
The government have disclosed new plans that will ban “excessive” fees being applied to payments for items like travel or cinema tickets when purchasers use credit or debit cards. The new plans are due to come into force by the end of 2012.
Complaints from customers who have been charged excessive fees [...]
Social network giant Facebook said that Gardens of Time has been their most popular game on site in 2011 despite there being some statistics that suggested it had fewer active users than Cityville by Zynga which ranked at number three or The Sims Social by Electronic Arts which gained the second [...]
Figures just released by Nielsen BookScan confirm that Jamie’s Great Britain by the TV chef Jamie Oliver has secured the number one position in this years book chart for the Christmas week.
Jamie has now had success with four books including Happy Days With The Naked Chef in 2001, the 2005 book [...]
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) have announced that they are intending to bring in new mortgage lending rules that are aimed at stopping some of the problems that occurred around the beginning of the last decade.
The new rules being proposed by the regulators are due to come into force in 2013 [...]
