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Comment on “Gazanging” on the rise as house sellers pull out at last minute by siz

siz — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:57:26 +0000

i too have just had this happen! am feeling so down. after 6 months of agreeing to pay the full asking price i finally “sold” my house only to be told that the people i was buying from had decided to stay. not once did they let the estate agent know and he was ringing me up every 2 weeks to see if i had sold. this is so depressing and just so damn frustrating. at least no money was involved but you can’t take away from your head the future you had planned in the house of your dreams. wish people would be more honest and upfront

Comment on Complaints about energy firms soar with fuel prices by Roy Nagalingum

Roy Nagalingum — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:31:44 +0000

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Comment on 5 tips for super cheap train travel by Jill Phillip

Jill Phillip — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:01:44 +0000

If you are over 55 and intend to travel in Scotland, look for ScotRail’s Club 55 http://www.scotrail.co.uk/club55 This offers return travel between any stations in Scotland (including Carlisle and Berwick) for £19 at various times of the year and you do not have to be resident in Scotland.
Splitting tickets is certainly an excellent way to save money, but reserved tickets for each section of your journey are unlikely to be in the same seats. To alleviate the inconvenience of changing seats, book in the Quiet coach because then your seats will still be in the same coach – but remember to switch off your phone!
Use the Trainline’s Best Fare Finder http://www.thetrainline.com/farefinder/ to find the cheapest fares between major stations. If you don’t live next to a major station, buy a local ticket from your station to the nearest major station. For example; a single from Lichfield to Glasgow will usually cost from £50, but singles from Crewe (a couple of stops up the line) can be as low as £12 and singles from Lichfield to Crewe range between £5.50-7.
But don’t buy your ticket through the Trainline as it charges a booking fee; use one of the train operating companies instead.
For more advice on travelling by train more cheaply, look at : http://www.bootandbike.co.uk/2010/10/how-can-you-travel-affordably-by-train-and-take-your-bike/ This also tells you how to take your bike on a train; another minefield!

Comment on The UK’s Top Ten Benefit Scandals by Dem

Dem — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:45:26 +0000

The only way to control this is to either regulate their paymasters, or limit the availability of funds for these benefits.

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DMV — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:54:22 +0000

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Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:52:07 +0000

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Comment on Rents fall for second consecutive month by InflationMonkey

InflationMonkey — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:23:39 +0000

For the last year all the talk in the media has been that rents are going up faster than house prices. But no one every seemed to look back at what happen to rent prices in the past. Historically, UK housing rent growth closely matched salary growth, Reference: https://twitter.com/InflationUK/status/148823890213339137/photo/1.

It true that housing rent growth as has exceeded inflation (as measured by RPI) over the last 25 years but so has housing, Reference: http://www.inflationarypressure.co.uk/customchart1987/Graph%20of%20price%20of%20RPI%20-%20Index%20against%20Rent%20showing%20inflation.html

What everyone seems to have forgotten is that is that rents are governed by wages, house prices by the availability of credit and it price (interest rate). If rents go up too far people just default on their payments and landlords get a higher percentage of their tenants in rent arrears (ie loss money).

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Comment on Disability benefits paid to drug addicts and alcoholics by Siegfried

Siegfried — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:08:05 +0000

Seems to me as a mental health worker that the DLA system is a bit of a lottery when it comes to who is and who is not entitled to higher/lower/middle, mobility/care. I work with folk who share the same diagnosis and live in the same type of housing, one individual may get high mobility and care whereas another gets only low mobility. On the whole though it is my experience that the lable of “mental illness” does on the whole favour awards leaning towards the higher level and these awards tend to be for significant lengths of time. the assumption seems to be that once you have a mental illnes you are not likely to recover or be able to work in gainful employment . . which of course is incorrect, but I am afraid it is one of the reasonds why folk with a diagnosis of mental illness tend to “stay” mentally ill.

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Comment on Ovo Energy cuts fuel prices as wholesale costs fall by Fred

Fred — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:37:19 +0000

Yes! Let’s all cheer OvO energy shall we? They’ve reduced their prices or have they? Yes their energy prices have been reduced as has the Gas daily standing charge but the daily standing charge for ELECTRICITY has gone up from 21.92 to 27.4 pence per day.!!!

Comment on Train fares to rise by 5.9% in January by InflationMonkey

InflationMonkey — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:37:28 +0000

You’re correct, since the early 1990s UK train fares on average have increases faster then inflation as reported by RPI, but does this tell the whole story, as the recent news headline make out?

Over the last 25 years, UK train fares have generally increased inline with UK average salary growth. This is very different to the trend with RPI were train fares increases much faster. So on average train fares are approximately as expensive/cheap, relative to average wages, as they were in the late 1980s
Reference : http://www.inflationarypressure.co.uk/customchart1987/Graph%20of%20price%20of%20Average%20Salary%20-%20Index%20against%20Rail%20Fares%20showing%20inflation.html

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