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If the Chancellor has his way, at least another £25 billion pounds will be cut from the UK budget in his quest to overcome the UK’s deficit and bring it back to a surplus. This isn’t the first time the figure has been bandied around – it has been forecast by a number of other...

A whole extravaganza of new rules and legislations went live with the New Year, and while this is nothing particularly new, there are some particularly odd things floating around on the radar this year. We’re not talking here about how as a business you can now get fined for...

The UK Land Registry has reported a general trend of rising house prices in England and Wales in 2013, averaging at some 3.2%. Looking at London alone, that price rise is a startling 10.6%, compared to a fall of up to 10% in the North East. The average house price in the UK as a...

  Fresh concerns about household debt levels have been raised this week by the Resolution Foundation, a think tank that focusses on the UK’s standards of living. Their research suggests that an estimated 600,000 people currently need to use over half their net income to...