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Jan 6, 2025 | 
thetimes.com | James Andrews
Free to read. The latest official figures show house prices are rising. We explore whether this trend is likely to continue in 2025 or prices are due a fall.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Orla Loughran Hayes |James Andrews
Free to read: Looking for the best Black Friday deals this year? Check out these top tips to tackle the Black Friday sales from our Money Mentor experts.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Orla Loughran Hayes |James Andrews
Free to read: Looking for the best Black Friday deals this year? Check out these top tips to tackle the Black Friday sales from our Money Mentor experts.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | James Andrews
Annabelle Williams takes a look at how the current two-child benefits cap works, what the exceptions are and how likely it is to change Share The controversial two-child benefits cap has hit the headlines after MPs voted to keep the policy – for now. The benefits cap stops lower income families getting universal credit or child tax credit for more than two children, a policy which has been blamed for increasing child poverty since it was brought in by the Conservative government in 2017. The...
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May 23, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | James Andrews
Free to read. Millions of households have received cost of living payments. The means-tested government support was designed to help with higher bills
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Jan 27, 2024 | 
mirror.co.uk | James Andrews |Emma MacKenzie
One Dad managed to head off a national Peperami shortage after his son put in an incredible food order of 990 of the treats using his mum's phone. But the four-year-old didn't stop at meaty snacks, adding in hundreds of Bakewell tarts, ice lollies, and Viennese Whirls - as well as an awful lot of bacon, sausages, and a single bunch of bananas - a balanced diet is crucial after all.
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Jan 1, 2024 | 
mirror.co.uk | Lucy Marshall |James Andrews
Most of us will work for the majority of our lives, but one man is sharing how it is possible to quit your job at age 24. Mike Rosehart decided he wanted to retire early when he was a teen - and went on a mission to do just that. He succeeded in building up enough cash to quit work during his early 20s, and think others can do the same. The dad is able to live a full life - including holidays and more - while saving cash.
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Nov 23, 2023 | 
ids.ac.uk | James Andrews
A paper that I recently published in the journal Landscape Ecology lays out an approach for integration of social science concepts into analyses of vegetation change in rangelands of Kenya. I intended this paper to open up a reflexive dialogue between social scientists and ecologists working in rangelands. I suggest that by focusing on the different social, political, and economic factors that mediate access to land, landscape ecology could produce more nuanced understandings of ecological change.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
thetimes.com | Georgie Frost |James Andrews
After almost exactly a year sitting at 5.25%, the Bank of England has finally acted and cut interest rates - this is what it all means or savwers and borrowers Updated August 1, 2024 Share The Bank of England has cut interest rates for the first time since lockdown. We explore the implications this has for your money, from your savings to mortgages, plus what you can do now to prepare for when a change does come. Between December 2021 and August 2023, the bank’s rate-setting Monetary Policy...
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Aug 24, 2023 | 
money.co.uk | James Andrews |Salman Haqqi
You can only cover one property on a rent guarantee policy, so you need a policy for each property you want to cover. Insurers usually offer six or 12 months of cover, to tie in with the length of the tenancy agreement. The earlier you take out rent guarantee insurance the better, because there are often limitations on when you can make claims. For example, you can’t usually claim until your tenant is a month in arrears, or within 90 days of the policy starting.
