- Thursday, November 24, 2011, 16:25
- Oddly Enough
His personal approval ratings might be looking a little shabby, but Ed Miliband can take some solace from the fact that Oxford Dictionaries have named his “squeezed middle” phrase word of the year.
Lexicographers from the Oxford University Press on both sides of the Atlantic agreed that the Labour leader’s catchphrase to describe the plight of “ordinary working ...
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The stress and trauma involved in buying or selling a home can age you by an average of two years, according to a study by In-Deed.
The online conveyancing firm commissioned psychologists to interview 200 people who had either bought or sold a house in the last three months. The poll, conducted by PCP Market Research, ...
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Technologies such as chip-and-pin helped to reduce debit and credit card fraud by 9% in the first six months of 2011, according to data collected by the UK Cards Association.
Fraud detection software and updated the rollout of chip-and-pin systems abroad helped push the amount lost to card fraud in the first half of this year ...
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- Wednesday, September 28, 2011, 11:07
- Featured, Oddly Enough, Personal Finance, Tips
Lovestruck Brits may have been conned into handing money over to fraudsters on internet dating sites, according to a new study.
Joint research carried out by the universities of Leicester and Westminster - believed to be the first formal academic study into the scale of the problem - found that 52% those surveyed had heard of online romance scams, and that one in every 50 (2%) ...
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- Tuesday, September 27, 2011, 10:52
- Economy, Oddly Enough, Personal Finance
Smartphone users could soon be protected from rogue apps that charge them for contact and services without their knowledge.
Phonepayplus, the premium-rate industry regulator, has announced plans to clamp down on the publishers of apps that charge phone users maliciously. It has launched a public consultation to find the best way to protect consumers from predatory ...
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- Tuesday, September 27, 2011, 10:41
- Featured, Oddly Enough
Residents of a small Devonshire village could soon be noticing a rise in the value of their houses after it was named the best place in England and Wales to raise children.
The historic farming village of Winkleigh, situated between Dartmoor and Exmoor, came top of the Family Investments’ Family Friendly Hotspots 2011 report. The study, ...
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- Wednesday, September 21, 2011, 12:01
- Featured, Oddly Enough, Personal Finance
Consumers are being charged too much when buying foreign currency in the UK and using debit and credit cards abroad, according to Consumer Focus.
The watchdog has submitted a supercomplaint to the Office of Fair Trading about complex charges and misleading information from banks that result in consumers paying too much when buying foreign money or ...
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- Monday, September 19, 2011, 10:53
- Household Finances, Oddly Enough
The budget airline Ryanair was criticised by consumer groups over the weekend after announcing that customers will only be able to avoid its booking fees in the future by using the company’s own prepaid credit card.
Ryanair passengers had been able to avoid its credit card booking fees by using a prepaid ...
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A growing trend of house sellers pulling out of property sales at the last minute has been given the moniker “gazanging”.
Research from the property legal website In-Deed, which coined the phrase, suggests that 54,000 would-be homebuyers were “gazanged” in the first six months of 2011 alone, a 20% rise on the same period ...
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Nearly a third of motorists in some areas of the UK are driving without any car insurance, according to a new study.
The Motor Insurance Bureau (MIB) said that although the number of uninsured drivers on the road across the country has fallen to 4%, around 30% of drivers in some areas are on ...
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