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New research has revealed screens have taken over our lives after it was revealed that the average Brit now spends five and a half hours a day staring at their devices. More than half the nation now sit through the working week looking at a monitor before winding down the day watching television, which means it’s almost impossible to avoid the harsh blue light of digital devices. Many of those who work a 9 to 5 start to struggle with...

A multi-millionaire businessman has spoken of his struggle after losing a fortune in the global financial crash, before painstakingly making his way back to the top. Yorkshireman Matt Haycox, 38, lived a life most can only dream of during his 20s – thinking nothing of spending tens of thousands of pounds on a weekend away with friends. Rubbing shoulders with celebrities like Britney Spears, with a garage stuffed with supercars like the Ferrari 360 Spider and Bentley Continental GT, the...

An FOI request has revealed James Dyson financed the construction of a water reservoir on his farm with EU funding. The billionaire arch Brexiteer took money from the Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE) to pay for the development, despite campaigning for Britain to leave the union. The farm, dubbed Beeswax Dyson in Lincolnshire, has received £4.2 million of European subsidies between 2016 and 2017. Susan Elan Jones MP, leading supporter of the People’s Vote campaign, said that Dyson was...

Brexit uncertainty continued to subdue the London housing market in March, according to the RICS UK Residential Market Survey, March 2019.  Looking ahead, the lack of momentum is likely to persist for a while longer, although respondents still envisage modest improvements in activity twelve months ahead. In March, enquiries from new buyers saw the seventh negative reading in a row, with 16% of respondents seeing a fall rather than a rise in buyer demand in London. Significantly, demand fell across...

As the UK struggles to decide anything regarding Brexit a stark warning had been handed to the British Isles. In the case of a no-deal Brexit the UK would slump into a two-year recession, claims the IMF (the International Monetary Fund). A no-deal outcome that led to severe border disruptions and a quick erection of tariffs would cause UK GDP to fall by 1.4 per cent and 0.8 per cent in the first and second years The total negative effect...

Landrose Developments Limited ordered the demolition rather than spend more time waiting for a license after soprano pipistrelle bats were found to be roosting in the home in Stanmore, north west London.

UK new car registrations declined by -3.4% last month, as political and economic uncertainty

Brexit has cost the UK economy £600 million per week since the referendum in 2016 - and the country could be hit even harder if we leave without a deal. A new report published by investment banking giant Goldman Sachs argues that had UK voters opted to Remain the economy would have been in a much stronger position, instead of underperforming and lagging behind other advanced economies. The analysis shows 2.5 per cent has been shaved off GDP since June...

The numbers with a pessimistic outlook has increased from a sixth - 16 per cent - since the referendum.