The average first-time buyer is now seven years older than in 1960 and needs to save around £20,000 to be able to buy a home, a study has found. Researchers who polled 2,000 adults found a huge difference in the profile of someone buying their first home through the generations. Today, first-time buyers will be in their thirties before they get onto the property ladder and pay a deposit of £20,622. In comparison, in 1960, the average first-time buyer was...

This is the moment a Good Samaritan leaped into action to save a homeless person's TENT where he lives - after it was set on FIRE. The brave stranger can be seen calmly carrying the occupant's sleeping bag away from the burning tent, which was fortunately unoccupied at the time. The tent is one of several to have appeared recently in inner-city Riverside Park in Easton, Bristol, beside the M32 motorway. And the man, who asked to be known only...

More than 137,700 girls have missed school in the last year because they couldn’t afford sanitary products, a shocking new report into period poverty in Britain has revealed. The findings emerged in a report of 500 girls aged 10 to 18, which shows seven per cent have been forced to skip school during their ‘time of the month.’ Of these girls, the average has missed five days of school during the last year – which made them feel embarrassed and...

If you have a lot of debt then it can seem if there is no way out. However, there are always options available to you. Two of the most popular options for people that owe money but own a property are a DMP (debt management plan) or an IVA (Individual Voluntary Arrangement). There are clear differences between the two plans and the one that will be best for you will largely depend on your own circumstances. The advantages and disadvantages...

Two Sun Online journalists have sent Twitter into hysterics after they tried to out two students for correctly surmising the moral of Frankenstein. Reporters from the beleaguered red top were scraping the barrel yesterday as they took aim at "generation snowflake" for sympathising with Mary Shelley's monster. The headline sensationally reported that the fragile academics feel the "monster was ‘misunderstood’ — and is in fact a VICTIM" - even though that is literally the story of the book. TLE Film...

Victoria has never been a synonymous with great food. Home to Mango Tree and more West Cornwall Pasty Co. huts than anyone could ever need, the area has long served as a beacon of terminal disappointment rather than a dining destination. Once upon a time, not too long ago, a stale Upper Crust baguette served with a dirty look was a comparatively acceptable excuse of a dinner. Last year, however, a shiny new Nova complex opened between the station and...

In 1941 amateur inventor Hedy Lamarr worked with composer George Antheil to create and patent 'frequency hopping', which when applied in naval warfare could prevent enemy jamming of communications with torpedos and move the battle for the seas in the favour of the Allies. Although not put into use by the US Navy until the 1950s, 'frequency hopping' is now used as an integral element of everything from GPS to Wi-Fi. Lamarr's day job was performing as one of the...

A headteacher who was named the best in the country for turning around a failing school is quitting the role due to the stresses of the job. Matt Middlemore was awarded the title 2016 for his work at Tregolls School. The primary school in Truro, Cornwall, was rated the 15th worst in the country but after years of hard work from Matt it is now in the top ten per cent. However, the "superhuman" effort needed to change Tregolls' fortunes...

The world’s oldest known message in a bottle has been discovered on a beach, sadly it doesn't point to buried treasure. A couple found the 132-year-old bottle as they were walking along a beach near Wedge Island, Western Australia. One of the couple, Photographer Tonya Illman, said he said she picked up the bottle because she thought "it might look nice on display in my home". Inside the gin bottle was a note written in German and dated 12 June 1886....