Even though our financial future is something we’re all concerned about, not enough people take the necessary precautions for financial stability. A big part of our monthly, short-term spendings can be easily covered by choosing the right credit card. With careful planning, your next credit card bill doesn’t have to be a negative experience. Carefully researching your options before settling for your new credit card can save you both money and frustrations in the future. In order to make the...

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Thousands of families face the awful choice between cutting their working hours or losing their school dinners GMB, the union for school catering staff, has criticised the Government’s new free school meals cap for forcing hard up families off a financial cliff edge. Under the new rules, which come into force next week, children will only be eligible for a free dinner if their parents earn less than £7,400. There are no plans to raise the cap with inflation. This...

By Rupert Read This winter, now finally ending, has seen disturbing early signs of the Earth’s climate starting perhaps to go out of control. The fierce cold snap in the UK occurred because the Arctic’s normal weather came down here; meanwhile, the Arctic was off-the-scale warm. Such events concentrate the mind. But then they ebb away, and we return to the normal fare of Brexit, Corbyn, the settlement of the campus strike, and everything else that takes up 98% of...

A drinker reckons he found a different kind of spirit in an historic pub - after this spooky apparition appeared in a photograph he snapped on a night out. Tom Evans, 25, took the shot inside the Old Fish Market Pub in Bristol and sent it to a friend. But when he flicked back through his pictures the next day he noticed the ghostly outline of a pale-faced woman sitting very low to the ground. She appears to sitting between...

A florist refused to deliver a bouquet to a grieving mother - because they were scared of venturing onto a traveller's site. Online retailer eFlorist told Lindsey Roberts, 36, that her £50 order to a close friend had been refused because because staff "did not feel comfortable" visiting the address. The mum of five believes that the act is discriminatory against people from travelling backgrounds. She said: “I asked why and they said they feared for their personal safety, which...

QuotedData’s economic round up – March 2018 is a collation of recent insights on markets and economies taken from the comments made by chairmen and investment managers of investment companies – have a read and make your own minds up. Please remember that nothing in this note is designed to encourage you to buy or sell any of the companies mentioned. Kindly sponsored by Polar Capital March - Economic and Political Roundup Roundup In mid-February, stock markets fell on concerns that strong...

Alex Garland’s seat at the directors table is one that he has worked for.  Before he cut his teeth behind the camera with the superbly crafted sci-fi techno thriller, Ex Machina, Garland penned novels and screenplays, the likes of which, The Beach and 28 Days Later, have cemented themselves as cult classics.  With his sophomore feature, Annihilation, Garland swings for the fences and knocks a curve ball out of the park.  It is as ambitious in its mediations as it...

QuotedData investment companies roundup – March 2018 – is our latest roundup of news; price, NAV and discount movements; flows in and out of the sector and report on full year dividends announced over the month of February 2018. Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford. March Investment Companies Roundup Equity markets continued to run up in early February, supported by strong corporate earnings and better economic data. However, in mid-February, they fell on concerns that strong global growth and emerging evidence of rising inflation...