The annual total amount of time taxpayers spent on the phone waiting to speak to a HM Revenue and Customs adviser has more than doubled…
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JCB built and supplied equipment to Russia months after saying exports had stopped
The British digger maker JCB, owned by the billionaire Bamford family, continued to build and supply equipment for the Russian market months after saying it…
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For a long time the traditional length of a UK mortgage has been 25 years, but runaway house prices and, more recently, dramatically higher borrowing…
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Anglo American has rejected a second takeover approach by its Australian rival BHP that values the London-listed mining company at £34bn. BHP said Anglo’s board…
View More Anglo American rejects new £34bn offer from mining rival BHPDividends payments soar globally as worker pay stagnates
Shareholders have proved to be more successful at securing bumper payouts than workers have at winning higher pay, according to two studies that show dividends…
View More Dividends payments soar globally as worker pay stagnatesUS adds 175,000 April jobs as hiring slows and unemployment stays steady
Hiring in the US slowed in April with the workforce adding another 175,000 jobs and wage growth slowing. The news cheered investors hoping that…
View More US adds 175,000 April jobs as hiring slows and unemployment stays steady‘It’s like winning the lottery’: the mobile home owners buying the land they live on
Bev Adrian, a retired career placement counselor for people with disabilities, lives in Woodlawn Terrace, a mobile home park just outside Minneapolis, Minnesota. The nearby…
View More ‘It’s like winning the lottery’: the mobile home owners buying the land they live onOECD forecasts will be blow to Sunak’s claims UK economy is improving
A lack of skilled workers in the country is pushing up UK wages. The dearth of affordable housing has seen landlords put up rent by…
View More OECD forecasts will be blow to Sunak’s claims UK economy is improvingUK tenants should have ‘right to garden’, leading horticulturist says
To inspire those who live in homes without gardens, Jason Williams worked with students to create balcony gardens for the Royal Horticultural Society urban show,…
View More UK tenants should have ‘right to garden’, leading horticulturist saysVW owners claim ‘poor design’ left cars open to parts theft costing £1,600
Volkswagen owners targeted by thieves who have stolen cruise control sensors from cars across London are furious after discovering the car’s “poor design” that makes…
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