We own a freehold house, but have to pay estate charges that we disagree with. They have risen sharply from £6,000 per year in 2018 to a bill for £16,068 annually now. We seem to be charged for maintenance visits to communal areas that we don’t get, for electricity to courtyard lights that do not…
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HSBC has suspended one of its top bankers over a speech about climate change in which he said ‘who cares if Miami is underwater’ and ‘nutjobs are always warning about the end of world’. Stuart Kirk, the global head of responsible investing at HSBC Asset Management, made the inflammatory comments during a speech at a…
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Dog bite injuries have more than doubled in the last 15 years with over 10,000 people a year requiring hospital treatment after an attack. NHS data has shown Britons being mauled by dogs has grown dramatically since 2008 – a rate of 15 cases for every 100,000 of the UK population, reports The Times. In…
A New Zealand professor has predicted Kiwis will flock to Australia to reap the benefits of Anthony Albanese’s promised rise of the nation’s minimum wage. On Monday, Mr Albanese was sworn in as the country’s 31st prime minister, becoming just the fourth person to lead Labor to government from opposition since World War II. The…
Buying a property that needs some work is often seen as a great way to secure a bargain. But aspiring renovators may want to consider new research which suggests it will usually end up costing more in the long run. While buying a fixer-upper can be a cost-effective way of climbing the property ladder, the…
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Thousands of students will have found out where they will be going to university this week, as the deadline for institutions handing out offers passes. Many will be questioning how they will fund their university experience, with almost £20billion worth of student loans each year being issued to around 1.5million students in England. But new…
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Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger have welcomed their second child together. The 42-year-old actor and 32-year-old author took to Instagram to share a graphic with pink ribbons with the name and birthdate of their baby daughter who was born on Saturday. It read: ‘Eloise Christina Schwarzenegger Pratt May 21, 2022.’ Happy news: Chris Pratt and…
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Nostradamus, I am not. Yet I was still able to forecast well ahead of time that Boris Johnson would renege on his promise to ban so-called ‘unhealthy’ buy-one-get-one-free and similar discount food offers. Perhaps, if I had thought more about it, I could also have predicted that such a backtrack would cause Jamie Oliver to…
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Even though Title 42 is no longer ending on Monday, Border Patrol is still ‘all hands on deck’ as they prepare for an influx of migrants in the next few weeks. Migrants from Columbia, Honduras, Guatemala, Cuba and Nicaragua and continued to trickle over the southern border by way of the Rio Grande River in…
Shocking cell phone video released by the New York Police Department on Saturday shows the moment a man hurled traffic cones at a food vendor in Times Square as the city’s crime wave continues to spiral out of control. In the video, a black man wearing a black t-shirt, black pants, and gray Crocs with…
