How Much Does End of Tenancy Cleaning Save for Tenants?
Nearing the end of your lease? It could be worth contacting a cleaning service earlier than you planned to. Across the UK, around 29% of tenants lose part or all of their deposits every year, with average losses of £825 per renter. Collectively, lose deposits amount to over £1 billion per year -- a very large sum, even in the context of the property rental market. The figures are even worse for students and young renters, with four in 10...
Hg invests in MeinAuto.de
Hg invests in MeinAuto.de - Hg, the Manager of HgCapital Trust has announced an investment in MeinAuto.de, a leading B2C online platform for new car purchases based in Germany. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. HgCapital Trust plc will invest approximately GBP6.7 million in MeinAuto, with other institutional clients of Hg investing through the Hg 8 Fund. Based on the pro-forma 30 November 2017 NAV, Hg Capital's liquid resources available for future deployment, including all announced transactions, are estimated...
Toby Young resigns from university watchdog role as Theresa May cabinet reshuffle turns to chaos
Toby Young has resigned from his universities watchdog role apologising for the offence his social media posts and writings have caused over the years, just two days after the Prime Minister defended his controversial appointment to the role. On the weekend Theresa May said that the controversialist who had made disparaging remarks about working class students, called for genetically modifying poor people, homophobic statements, appalling remarks about women’s bodies - including MP’s and scoffed about needing tissues but not for...
Four out of five homes on NHS land are unaffordable to nurses
Instead of selling off NHS land, the Government should create a People’s Land Bank, and use the land to build genuinely affordable homes The Government’s sale of NHS land is failing to produce affordable homes and is exacerbating the affordability crisis across the UK, according to new research from the New Economics Foundation. The research involved a comprehensive analysis of the 59 NHS sites that have been sold so far under the Government’s public land sale programme. It finds that,...
Jeremy Hunt rewarded adding social care to his health role as Commons hears depth of NHS crisis
In today’s reshuffle, despite an unprecedented winter NHS crisis, Jeremy Hunt has not only retained his role as Health Secretary, but also been given control of social care. - Another area in crisis under successive Conservative cuts. A Government policy paper on social care is due to be published next summer. This means it is likely that Jeremy Hunt will now take charge of that, which worries many as he has been in charge of the increasing privatisation of the...
Immigration detainees are being paid £1 an hour – and children are still being detained.
People without immigration status are not allowed to work in the UK - unless that is, they are being detained indefinitely on immigration grounds by the Home Office. In that case they can work to buy essentials like sanitary towels and phone cards for the companies such as G4S and Serco who run them - getting paid as little as £1 an hour. This scandal was highlighted today by the Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott in the House of Commons....
“There are 20% fewer firefighters since 2010” – Tory Home Secretary Amber Rudd makes shocking confession in the Commons
Amber Rudd Downing Street today confirmed is to stay Secretary of State for the Home Department. Which may be why she appeared so relaxed admitting to Parliament that there are now 20% less firefighters. (See video below.) The South West Fire Brigades Union (FBU) confirmed to The London Economic that nationwide there are 11,000 fewer firefighters, and that nationwide there had been cuts of 20% since 2010. Tam McFarlane of South West FBU said: "Since the coalition government came...
Conservative Party announce WRONG person as new party chairman
Today’s cabinet reshuffle has not gone well. A tweet was sent out from the official @conservatives account congratulating Chris Grayling as new chairman of the party. However, the post has actually been given to Brandon Lewis. The tweet was deleted as soon as the error was noticed. The incorrect news was shared by numerous people, and even mentioned on T, before it was taken off the social media platform. It was Theresa May's first major reshuffle since taking office in...
Animal welfare officers left in tears after rescuing a Shetland pony
Animal welfare officers were left in tears after a distressed pony was found dumped and neglected on New Year's Eve. Saroo, a 15-year-old Shetland pony was discovered abandoned in a field starving and thirsty and had about 3,000 burrs across her body leaving her unable to go to the toilet. Animal welfare officers were left in tears after a distressed pony was found dumped and neglected on New Year's Eve. The pony, who is now on her road to recovery,...