Families up and down the country are living on a knife edge, missing one pay day would mean they would not be able to pay to remain in their dwellings. Leaving millions of the brink of homelessness. A missing payment would mean that a shocking 37 per cent of working families would not be able to remain in their homes, unless they manage to borrow or find finance from elsewhere. The study shows that families simply do not have enough...

A man who saw his old car couldn’t resist buying it back for an inflated fee, after seeing Pogba deal on TV. Terry Jones, 45 from Havant said: “I bought it back when it was young and fresh, it really looked the part. However, it was unreliable, kept breaking down on long journeys and only really enjoyed itself at home on the drive. “I should have noticed the warning signs when I first bought it, it had go faster stripes,...

By Bea Patel, TLE Property Editor and Director of Shop for an Agent The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has approved plans for the first major housing development at the Old Oak regeneration site in West London. The Oaklands development will see 605 new homes built, together with a nursery, health centre and commercial space. A target of 50 per cent affordable housing has been agreed for the development, following an intervention by the Mayor to boost the number of...

There has been a victory for all new members of the Labour Party. The High Court has now ruled that the 130,000 new members who signed up to join the party can register their choice of who will lead the party. It is assumed that this will benefit Corbyn over Smith, although this can’t be certain, it is highly likely. They are 540,000 members in the Labour Party. A group of five members were represented in court to by lawyers...

Generally speaking, I’ve never been a great fan of tasting menus. It’s less of a problem with the sheer quantity of courses served, than it is with the chef’s decision to commonly present an array of gratuitously pretentious dishes. All too often this leads to spending three hours (or more) sycophantically congratulating the kitchen staff and pretending to enjoy outrageous flavour combinations like white chocolate and raw sturgeon or foie gras and marshmallow. Combinations that have never worked, and surely...

The Green Party has joined Labour and the Liberals to fight the government’s new plans to re-introduce the grammar school system in the UK. New PM May is assumed to be hoping to scrap the ban on establishing new grammar schools in England; she hopes it will actually help to increase social mobility. However, many other think it will actually create an even more unfair education system. At the moment there are around 163 grammar schools in England and around...

If the stereotypes are to be believed, then Germans' have been guilty of stealing sunloungers and places on the beach ever since the package holiday introduced UK sun-seekers to the behaviour of foreign holidaymakers in the 1970s. Well now it is Italy’s turn as they have launched an offensive of tourists who nick their spot on the beach for the whole day, without being there, for all, or at least a large chunk of the day. Leaving other sun worshippers with...

Music festivals have always been places to pick up various ailments, alcohol poisoning, food poisoning, and possibly the odd STI, but there is now been an outbreak of measles at a lot of UK festivals. Public Health England has said that music festivals this summer have become somewhat of a hotbed for measles this year. They have signalled a “significant number” of cases of people picking up the disease while enjoying their favourite music with thousands of other party go-ers....

City bosses have seen another huge yearly income rise, which will further anger the general population who are struggling by on stagnant wages. The news also comes as a recent study found that increased pay for businesses bosses does not necessarily improve the companies performance. This recent study, by the High Pay Centre, has revealed that chief execs of FTSE 100 firms saw their average income increase by ten per cent in 2015. Shockingly, median pay rose to almost four...