Finance

The Government has been pumping public money into subsidising home buyers to keep house prices high and protect the economy. According to the Halifax, the policy may be working. It has been running a “Halifax Housing Market Confidence Tracker” for ...

Banks are not exactly favourite businesses in the UK, even though it is five years since the major financial crisis which triggered today’s unpleasant austerity policies. However, Lloyds is trying to rescue its reputation by setting itself the goal of ...

The empty slogans trip off the tongue: it’s the poor who are bearing the brunt of austerity… women suffer disproportionately from the cuts…

Research from Santander has provided up to date figures on just how expensive going to university is for the average student these days. Making students pay for their own education is pretty much a wet dream for the Tories, who ...

A new initiative has been launched to fund some of the capital’s charities. The Mayor’s Fund for London and the Santander Foundation have together set up “Community Plus London”. They are delighted to announce that they have £100,000 to give ...

An investigation by ASDA Money, the wing of the ASDA supermarket which offers financial services, has found that travellers both underinsure themselves and underestimate the costs of falling ill while overseas. Parents taking their families to European destinations often relied ...

Syed Ahmed, founder and the driving force behind SAVortex, a UK based technology company brought

The Tower Hamlets Uncut protest group was formed by public sector workers in the borough.

Chancellor George Osborne has delivered the Coalition Government’s budget for 2011.

More winter blues on the way as power firms implement their 10% price hikes. Average bills for a couple will go up this winter by around £115 to £1,265 a year. Bills for larger households will increase from an average ...