Property
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Stop whacking pensions and benefits – hit property instead
Americans cherished a tax break but were introduced in Britain to spark a revolt akin to the Boston Tea Party. One major US financial...
Property
London’s property market is Britain’s Hunger Games
The Hunger Games imitates life in Britain’s property market. The evil President Snow has devised a ritual where young couples queue up overnight to...
Property
How the Vatican built a secret property empire using Mussolini’s millions
Little passing London tourists would ever guess that the premises of Bulgari, the upmarket jewelers in New Bond Street, had anything to do with...
Property
My real-life experience as a property guardian was anything but funny
Channel 4’s new sitcom Crashing, which follows six twentysomethings living as property guardians in a disused hospital, has been described as the comic voice...
Property
Can we bypass the estate agent to buy a property?
Q My partner and I saw a house on the Rightmove website. We rang the estate agent and told them we wanted to view...
Property
More property funds suspended as Brexit tremors continue in the City
Britain’s vote to leave the EU has sent further shock waves through financial markets, with three more property funds suspended, the pound plunging, and...
Property
Property funds halt trading as Brexit fallout deepens
The fallout from the Brexit vote reverberated through the markets on Tuesday as two more City property funds barred investors from withdrawing their cash...
Property
Standard Life shuts property fund amid rush of Brexit withdrawals
Investors in Standard Life’s property funds have been told that they cannot withdraw their money after the firm acted to stop a rush of...
Property
Commercial property fund freeze – all you need to know
Commercial property funds have emerged as a weak link in the financial sector after the Brexit vote. Two funds have been suspended in successive...
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Health
Five health myths reinvestigated
Eat five portions of fruit and veg a day.
What a nice, neat way, someone thought, of packaging the WHO’s daily recommended fruit-and-veg dose of...
Health
Say Why To Drugs – does alcohol put our health on the rocks?
What’s the appeal?
When we talk about alcohol as a recreational drug, we really mean ethanol, a particular type of alcohol produced when sugar is...
Health
Government risked mental health of troops, Chilcot report reveals
The Chilcot report reveals that the government risked the mental health of thousands of troops by breaching strict guidelines designed to protect military personnel...