Category Archives: UK News
After an eight year courtship Prince William and Kate Middleton are to be married next year. They announced official engagement today. Speculation has been rife for many months now, no dates have yet been set but the wedding will take place in the spring or summer of next year. A Clarence House statement said “Further [...]
London UK, Prime Minister David Cameron announced this morning that he had been given unconfirmed information that Linda Norgrave, a Taliban hostage in Afghanistan, may have been killed by friendly fire a rescue attempt over the weekend. Previous reports issuedduring the weekend by NATO and British officials indicated that she was killed by an explosive [...]
In a not so shocking revelation this weekend by the News of the World newspaper in the UK, Wayne Rooney, star striker for England and Manchester United has been playing away. Jennifer Thompson, allegedly a prostitute, has “spilled the beans” about several liaisons between her and Wayne Rooney over the last year. The Manchester Untited [...]
In June 2010 the Chancellor announced that starting from September 6 2010 new businesses would be entitled to a National Insurance Contributions (NICs) holiday. This will result in an estimated saving of up to £50,000 for in tax payments for new businesses that meet the criteria. The scheme applies to all qualifying new businesses, including [...]
If a woman puts a cat in a bin, how does the whole world know about it? Through a security camera that captures her footage and the owner who posts it on Facebook and YouTube. An anonymous woman picked up a pet cat from in front of its home and dumped it in a trash [...]
With the current economic crisis, you would hardly expect people to be enquiring into buying homes, and the trend in remortgage might be expected to rise. However, according to figures from John Charcol, more and more Brits are purchasing homes for themselves rather than taking the remortgage route. According to Drew Wotherspoon, Director of Marketing [...]
With the advent of the recession, the mortgage market in the UK as well other markets for secured lending such as remortgages are facing a series of twists and turns. Poor credit remortgages are facing a decline through the previous months, with remortgages in general falling by 2.6 per cent to a number of 24,949 [...]
For many in these times of recession and global economic debt, both national and personal, crisis any small help to ease the burden is welcome. Earlier in the year the new credit card joint industry agreement was drawn up and comes into effect in January 2011. In a move to hold up their brand ambition [...]
Earlier this week Lord Young told the BBC he wanted a ban on advertising for No Win No Fee Solicitors and personal injury claim firms. The Tory peer is leading a review on current UK health and safety legislation. In recent interviews he has said that “children dying because of health and safety”, when refering [...]
Prof. David Bellamy has joined campaigners protesting against North British Wind Powers’ (NBWP) scheme for 48 wind turbines at Fallago Rig in the Lammermuir Hills. Say No To Fallago claims it is the “final straw” and will destroy the last “unspoiled section” of the landscape. NBWP says the turbine project can supply up to 80,000 [...]