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Managing money stress this January

Managing money stress: 8 top tips to help manage your finances Almost half of people in the UK are said to be suffering from stress in some form and the most common cause of this stress is money. Yet, if you are feeling that money is an issue for you then you don’t need to suffer in silence. There are things you can do to wrest back control. Here are eight top tips for you to try… Have a spending...

S.London road passes ANNUAL air pollution level in five days

A road in South London has already reached, and breached, the annual pollution limit for the entirety of 2017 just five days into the new year.  Brixton Road, the busy main road that cuts through Brixton, nitrogen dioxide levels have already exceeded EU limits set for an entire year. The road is often full of buses passing through Brixton into Central London, often leaving a large number sitting in traffic jams as the road bottlenecks, as it goes through the...

500,000 elderly people spend every day alone & at least 1.2 million chronically lonely

A report has revealed the shocking level of loneliness of the elderly people in the UK. Figures from Age UK found that for half a million people aged over 60 for up to 6 days a week without speaking or even seeing anyone. There is a hidden army of people who are totally isolated from society and are suffering in silence. In response Age UK has launched a report titled “'No one should have no one: working to end loneliness...

5 Important Principles for Successfully Investing in Forex

Everyone who joins Forex expects to get the best results at the end of the day. However, the outcome depends on the different formulas one employs when trading. The truth is that there is no single formula for trading in forex. It all depends on a combination of many techniques characterized by balance, talent and being mindful of trends. This article is to remind people who are trading about the key principles of successful Forex trading strategies. The Right Approach...

Binary Options Trading – The Truth

Binary options trading has become all the rage. It provides people who have no previous experience with finances the opportunity to make money through the Forex and commodities markets. Binary options trading basically gives you a “yes” or “no” option. You predict whether a trade will appreciate or depreciate over a defined period of time, and if you are right, you profit. It might sound to you like nothing more than a gamble, which is why there are those who...

Pupils at £25k-a-year private school break curfew to go on ill-fated cocaine-fuelled night out

Pupils at a £25k-a-year private school sneaked out of their hotel on a trip in Tenerife to go boozing and using cocaine - with one rushed to hospital. A number of students have been disciplined after the incident during which one is said to have bought coke from a local dealer in Puerto de Santiago. Letters have now been sent to all parents by headteacher Andrew Gordon-Brown at Truro School in Cornwall, outlining the "unfortunate incident" at the end of...

Devaluation of pound post-Brexit batters Next’s profits & prices could rise

The fashion retailer Next has announced some gloomy figures and has drastically cut its profit forecast. Following the devaluation of the pound, post-Brexit, Next also said it expects inflation to hit its customers, leading to price hikes to their goods. Shares tumbled over ten per cent as trading began, after it said that profits would be at the bottom end of predictions for 2017. Next’s financial performance is closely monitored by business analysts as for the last twenty years it...

Entrepreneur brings schoolboy closer to walking again

Leeds entrepreneur brings young schoolboy closer to walking again with £16,000 donation A young schoolboy with cerebral palsy who dreams of being able to walk and run with his friends has passed his half way funding goal to raise £50,000 to fund a life-changing operation. 9 year old Alfie Smith, who has cerebral palsy, has always longed to one day be able to walk unaided and painfree. His family are raising money to fund selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR) surgery which...

Rodgers’ departure “significant blow” now demands for “Brexiteer” to get top job

Sir Ivan Rogers’ resignation in frustration at the UK’s Brexit strategy has created a job opportunity many Leave voters want to be filled with someone dedicated to Brexit. Some Tories have called for the Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan to be handed the job. In response to the departure Nigel Farage, has demanded a complete clearout of the “Europhile Foreign Office,” which he thinks is purposefully trying to stall Brexit. Rogers stepped down from his role as ambassador to the EU,...

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