15th December 2008
Christmas is typically the time for families to spend time with each other, where children who have grown up and left home can come home for good times with the family and a big Christmas dinner. A lot of families will live great distances from each othe...
15th December 2008
Going on holiday is a tradition in the average UK citizen’s year where we get to jet away from working in the office for a week or two in the sun. Millions of Britons travel to Spain, Greece and other more far-flung destinations to get away from the ha...
04th December 2008
With the current cash crisis and other increased costs many of us are worrying about next year’s holidays or may have even resolved that we may not be able to afford a week or two abroad this year. Earlier this year holiday company XL holidays collapse...
03rd December 2008
For nearly a year we’ve had to put up with over-inflated energy bills, fuelled by large costs for nature resources like oil many gas and electricity providers had to push up prices of energy in order to make sure they didn’t lose money on the millions...
03rd December 2008
At the moment the government has a great interest in the UK and world banking system; many pundits believe that for too long the banking system and specifically the inter-bank lending has run amuck and is one of the many reasons for our current credit cri...
03rd December 2008
Loans, mortgages and credit cards are all financial products that many people are finding they cannot get approved for at the moment, the state of banking and lending in not only England but all over Europe and the United States of America has been left w...
02nd December 2008
Typically our cars need testing every few years to make sure that they’re safe to run on the road and also to pinpoint any problems that may be wrong with the car. These tests go by the name of MOT certification, or MOT for short standing for Ministry ...
02nd December 2008
As a part of the on going financial problems in the UK gas and electricity prices were one of the first vital expenses to go up in cost in 2008, scaremongering in late 2007 proved to hold weight when people’s prepay utility bills skyrocketed by over 100...
02nd December 2008
Borrowing money is a bit of a sore subject at the moment, many people who need to are unable to because of the current lockdown on lending money in the UK. The reasoning behind this spreads far and wide with bank closures, financial bailouts and years of...
02nd December 2008
The hot topic of recent years has been climate change and how our fondness for fossil fuels is causing severe damage to our planet, it’s in the news and even in the movies; we need to change our ways if we want to have any hope for the future of earth.
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01st December 2008
Nearly 12 months ago UK residents were warned to prepare for an increase in heating and utility costs, on the verge of a cold winter and possibly a colder and wetter summer many people were worried that at a time when they’d need their heating and elect...
26th November 2008
Over the years there have been a lot of developments in the mobile phone world and especially over the past few years in particular. Many mobile phones now can not be described as a mobile phone but more of a personal computing device as they can browse ...
17th November 2008
Many people will have felt the pinch recently with the costs of living going up and other expenses like fuel costing more and so many UK residents have had to tighten their belts to make sure that they don’t find themselves in hot water.
The prospect...
12th November 2008
These days there are fewer and fewer companies who will lend you money, whether it’s for a credit card or something grander like a mortgage banks and other lenders are simply holding back.
The credit crunch and faltering global mortgage market has me...
12th November 2008
We use credit cards a lot, whether it’s paying for expenses like bills or purchases the general public often relies on a credit card to pay for goods and services when paying with our own money is not a possibility.
It’s proven that we are using cr...