When it comes to shopping online, us Brits are known for our love of avoiding the high street and hitting the internet, instead. However, you might be stunned to realise collectively, how much we spend online each year. According to new research from The UK Cards Association, internet shopping has seen a boost of almost 25% since 2014, with the numbers expected to grow even further in years to come. £154 billion was the overall total that we spent online in 2016. From holidays and clothes to new cars; you’ll struggle to find any item that you can’t purchase on…
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Whilst working from the comfort of your own home sounds like a dream come true for office workers, it seems like it’s not all that it’s cracked up to be. Long-gone are the days of sitting by a laptop whilst trashy TV plays in the background; welcome to the days where internet issues wreak havoc on your working schedule. According to a recent survey, 25% of employees had experienced issues with their at-home telecoms service, which equates to a massive 4 million workers being prevented from working when taking into account that 43% of employees current do such form of…
For many of us at working age, we look forward to retirement. The pension that we’re saving towards can seem long-off when you begin saving, yet people who have recently retired thought that they made the choice too early in life. According to a recent survey by SunLife, 85% of retired people admitted to wanting to retire later in their working life, with the regret level increasing with age. People who were semi-retired were found to wish that they retired two and a half years later, whereas those over the age of 70 think they made the choice three years…
Ever since the introduction of the new £5 notes in 2016, people have being going mad for finding “rare” editions of the new currency – and hope that it’s worth much more than their face value. However, the 50p coin is one that has been left out of the hype (with the noticeably-new £1 coins coming out earlier this year), and you could be sitting on a wad of money if you’ve somehow ended up with a spare. There are more than 50 different 50p coins that are worth more than what they say on the time. The Kew Gardens…
Royal Mail have announced that their defined benefit (DB) pension scheme will come to a close in March 2018. The news comes after the company consulted with their members about the future of the scheme. Currently with over 900,000 members, two thirds of their workforce, the DB scheme has not been accepting new members since 2008. The privatised UK postal company currently contributes £400 million annually towards the running of the scheme, although they expressed that this would need to be raised to £1 billion next year if the scheme continued and no changes were made. A spokesperson for Royal…
The Local Government Association (LGA) has called for vehicles that are partly-parked on the pavement to be subject to fines. The new potential-law comes after the association says that partly parking on the kerb poses a danger to pedestrians and is potentially putting their lives at risk, with transport spokesmen Martin Tett commenting: “Local authorities need this power to respond to concerns raised by their communities, for example if a street is becoming dangerously congested or pedestrians are being forced to step out into the street to get round parked vehicles. This is particularly dangerous for blind or partially sighted…
The Consumer Price Index measure stood at 2.3% in February and remained steady in figures for the following month, released on Tuesday. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported that average wages, when the effects of bonuses were excluded, grew by 2.2% in the three months to February. While that was slightly better than economists had predicted, it still marked a 0.1% fall on the previous month’s figure, which meant salaries failed to keep pace with the rate of inflation for the first time since the summer of 2014. The development adds further pressure to family budgets already being squeezed…
The cabinet of President Trump has shielded the executive orders filed in the midst of reaction from a few legislators and taking after challenges that broke out Saturday and were arranged again for Sunday at air terminals the nation over. Trump’s top assistant Kellyanne Conway on Sunday underlined the significance of having safe fringes, proposing that the little number of individuals who were burdened by the request was justified, despite all the trouble to protect the nation. She said 325,000 individuals “from overseas came into this country just yesterday through our airports. You’re talking about 300 and some who have…
The immigration lawyer for First Lady Melania Trump, Michael Wildes denounced the official request that is known as the “Muslim ban”. Amid a meeting on Saturday evening, the New York legal counselor stated, “How can we turn our backs on these individuals? I think it is going to get worse before it gets better. This is not the way you deal with people’s lives,” he said. Wildes thoroughly considered the legitimate question the official request would in the long run be taken up by the Supreme Court. Wildes has beforehand spoken to Trump Models, President Trump’s New York demonstrating office,…
The Department of Homeland Security said that the official request banned green card holders from those nations from re-entering the United States. No less than one case immediately incited a legitimate test as legal counselors speaking to two Iraqi evacuees held at Kennedy International Airport in New York documented a movement early Saturday looking to have their customers discharged. They additionally recorded a movement for class confirmation, with an end goal to speak to all outcasts and different foreigners who they said were as a rule unlawfully confined at ports of passage. Not long after twelve on Saturday, Hameed Khalid…
