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Credit-crunched Britons are pulling purse strings and changing the way they spend. Halifax Home Insurance conducted a survey revealing that over two thirds questioned are making a conscious effort to save money as they head toward an uncertain economic horizon. Is this all that bad? Prior to the current credit crisis borrowing money was almost as [...]

Ian Sample, the Guardian July 25, 2008 British couples should consider having no more than two children to help reduce the environmental impact of the rising global population, doctors have said. An editorial in the British Medical Journal today calls on GPs to encourage the view that bigger families are as environmentally dubious as owning a patio heater [...]

A former Bank of England majordomo has warned that Britons will be going back to the seventies, and we’re not talking T-Rex albums and the upcoming Sweeney movie. Willem Buiter, one of Gordon Brown’s first appointees to the Bank, said Britons face a “painful couple of years”, and urged the Monetary Policy Committee to raise [...]

By: Phil Benson Research from price comparison website MoneyExpert.com has revealed that more than 3 million people in the UK are trying to manage their finances using five or more credit cards. Thirty per cent of Britons applied for a new card during 2007 – 2008 and despite the growing concerns of the global credit crunch, consumers have carried on spending money far beyond what they can afford

Five British hostages who were kidnapped in Iraq almost a year ago are being held inside Iran by Revolutionary Guards, according to two separate sources in the Middle East and London.The hostages were handed over to the Revolutionary Guards by their Iraqi kidnappers last November, the sources believe. One of the sources said they were being held in the western Iranian city of Hamadan.If confirmed, the involvement of Revolutionary Guards would be seen as evidence that senior figures in the Iranian government had backed the decision to hold them in the country. More...

A new trend is emerging from Britons who are in trouble with their debt consolidation loans. These households are falling into delinquency with their energy companies, as they try to keep up with higher payments on their debt consolidation loans as well as rising utility prices. If the problem continues, many Britons may be left [...]

Britain is throwing away half of all the food produced on farms, according to the starkest estimate yet of the amount of edible produce we waste. <!--proximic_content_off--><!--proximic_content_on--> About 20m tons of food is thrown out each year: equivalent to half of the food import needs for the whole of Africa. Some 16m tons of this is wasted in homes, shops, restaurants, hotels and food

Buying shares in companies is not appropriate for everyone. If you are a retiree on pension pay and saved money, it is better you do not try to grow that money by investing in risky assets without any appropriate knowledge of the process.A father and daughter have been accused of tricking 15,000 mostly elderly British citizens out of more than $70m (£34m) by selling worthless shares.That is a

It’s the time of year when many Britons might be thinking of hopping on a plane to get some sun. But Andy Ross won’t be joining them. Related PostsForget the climate! Britons scent U.S. bargains (Reuters via Yahoo! News) For British tourists heading to the Big Apple to take advantage of a weak dollar and [...]

Check this out home based business entrepreneurs and online money makers. I know that it sounds too unbelievable to be true but MagicLoans Dot Co Dot UK (specializing in providing consolidation & secured loans) reported that some Britons were forced to take up loans to have dental treatments!Talk about desperation! There you have it folks. I can’t really blame those Britons for taking up loans since they did not have any free or affordable dental health service in their area (somewhere in Derry). I have one question though, just how expensive is private dental health service in the United Kingdom that some Britons just have to take up loans to have them?Surely it is not that expensive. Have a little compassion, Briton’s dental health practitioners! Money is not everything, you know!Thi

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has lost two CDs containing the details of 25 million people in the United Kingdom.  With the official population of the UK at 60.5 million, this represents slightly less than half of all the people in that country.  The matter was grave enough, combined with other data breaches at the same department, for the chairman, Paul Gray, to resign.   The data that could potentially be compromised are the names, addresses, and the birthdates of every child in the UK, plus the bank account details and England’s equivalent of Social Security numbers of 10 million parents and other caretakers.  The two CDs were lost en route to the National Audit Office.  Because of the nature of the media lost—compact discs—there has been plenty of fist-pounding on why the government is using such “ancient museum pieces” and that these must be replaced.  I would like to comment, as I usually do, that the method of delivery is not at fault.&

Le temps d'un weekend..mais quel weekend! Alors réservation depuis 1 mois de mon billet et planification de ce petit weekend de 3 jours avec la petite Caro! Bon moi j'ai séjourné chez mon amie Katja, à Kingston et Caro, elle avait trouvé une super auberge à Stramford Brook! Retour aux sources (les gens qui me connaissent savent à quel point j'aime cette ville!) et rencontres encore! Découverte de la ville pour la tite Caro et ré-émerveillement à l'idée de passer 3 jours dans ma ville de coeur. Déçue de ne pas avoir pu voir toutes les personnes que j'aurai pu (cf Andrea, Paul,Amandine...) mais je reviendrai...et plus tôt que prévu! J'ai quand même pu repasser voir ma famille d'accueil (j'ai été au pair un an dans cette ville!) et voir mes petites choutes ;) Alors voila les photos de ce petit weekend entre amis revigorant! Vendredi 9/11 Caro telle une baroudeuse à la Gare du Nord In the Eurostar Bon en attendant q

According to a recent survey, four out of every ten Britons had to rely on their credit cards to meet the cost of Christmas last year and a fifth of them are still paying the left dues.Around 41 percent people used their credit cards to buy gifts and food items in 2006. But only 29 percent of them were able to clear the debt when they got their bills in Jan 2006. According to a recent price comparison made by website savebuckets, approx. 17 percent of people who used their credit cards for purchasing on last Christmas, still have not cleared their debts.People who have lower income are most likely still be paying their last Christmas bills. 43 percent of people who used their credit card have yearly earning less than £35,000, 19 of them are still paying their bills.

Britons are among foreigners fighting Turkish troops with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, The Sunday Times can reveal.According to PKK fighters holed up in one of the natural fortresses of the Qandil mountain range which runs along Iraq’s Turkish and Iranian borders, several Europeans have joined forces with their group.At least three Britons were in the PKK’s 3,000-strong force, boasted one fighter as he and a group of men huddled in a room discussing the latest clashes with the Turkish army. Others include Russians, Germans, Greeks, Iranians and Arabs. More...

In the 1980s and early 1990s there was a trend for foreigners buying properties in the French capital, but this has slowed in recent years. Thanks to these reforms - and the new high-speed train service from London St Pancras - this trend looks set to be rekindled.House prices in Paris rose 9.9% last year. They are now slowing but the city is regaining its lost prestige.According to the Paris Chamber of Notaries, the proportion of flats in the French capital bought by foreigners rose from 5.2% in 1996, to 8.2% in 2006. British homebuyers represented 5% of foreign purchasers five years, but now account for a huge 10.8%, having bought 279 Parisian properties over the past 12 months.

New research has suggested that the famous British reserve is still firmly in place across the UK, with many people holding back from discussing money worries and the possibility of debt consolidation loans with professionals when they find themselves in financial difficulty.

by Grant SmithThree Americans and four Britons were among a group of oil workers kidnapped in Nigeria today, according to U.S. and U.K. government spokesmen. The group also included a South African expatriate worker, a spokesman for the U.S. embassy, who declined to be identified, said by telephone from Abuja. A spokesman for the U.K. Foreign and Commonwealth office in London, who also declined to be identified, confirmed the number of Britons seized. The workers were abducted from a pipe-laying vessel off the coast of the Niger Delta near the Brass crude oil export terminal, the Reuters news agency said. As many as nine people may have been taken, Agence-France Press said, citing unidentified people. Sabotage and kidnappings in the oil-rich delta region of Nigeria, Africa's biggest producer, have surged following last month's presidential elections.Bloomberg PUT Your ADVERTASING Here in THE ENERGY DATA WAREHOUSE

by Grant Smith Three Americans and four Britons were among a group of oil workers kidnapped in Nigeria today, according to U.S. and U.K. government spokesmen. The group also included a South African expatriate worker, a spokesman for the U.S. embassy, who declined to be identified, said by telephone from Abuja. A spokesman for the U.K. Foreign and Commonwealth office in London,

Britons conduct first gene therapy to restore human sight - CBC NewsExcerpt:"British doctors say they have made the world's first surgical attempt to treat a human sight disorder using gene therapy."http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/05/01/sight-gene-therapy.htmlAlex

ROYAL MARINE BASE CHIVENOR, England (AP) - British sailors and marines freed by Iran said Friday they were blindfolded, isolated in cold stone cells and tricked into fearing execution while being coerced into falsely saying they had entered Iranian waters. They said there was no doubt the 15 crew members were in Iraq’s territorial waters when they were seized by heavily armed boats of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. They also said their jailers had singled out the only woman among the captives for use in propaganda. Iran, which has been celebrating the incident as a victory, quickly rejected the charges, dismissing a news conference held by six of the freed personnel as “propaganda” and “a show.” Iranian state TV accused British leaders of “dictating” the crew’s statements. Appearing a day after being flown home to reunions with their families, the eight sailors and seven marines reported undergoing constant psychological pressure and

This is just too funny. The British will be pardoned for what????? They were in Iraqi waters, in uniform and doing nothing illegal. So they are pardoned from what????? I guess president Ahmenadijad (spelling????) did want to get sanctions and...

Iran showed three British sailors on television and released a letter today from one of the sailors that says she is remaining captive because of “oppressive” behavior in Iraq on the part of US and Britain. A third letter from British sailor Faye Turney said, “I am writing to you as a British service person who has been sent to Iraq, sacrificed due to the intervening policies of the Bush and Blair governments.” Tony Blair, British Prime Minister, said that these letters and the TV airing of three British sailors is causing more disgust from people at the way Iran is treating these sailors and marines and could possibly cause Iran more isolation. The video that was released showed a woman in a headscarf and two men in uniforms who were talking and smiling in a room together.  On the footage on of the sailors said, “We trespassed without permission,” and that, “I would like to apologize for entering your waters without any permission…I de

The Iranians are going to releaes the female British soldier. But they are still insisting on the fact that the British were in Iranian waters. But the British have the GPS coordinates of wher e they were at and they...

Fifteen British sailors and marines arrested by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards off the coast of Iraq may be charged with spying. A website run by associates of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, reported last night that the Britons would be put before a court and indicted. Referring to them as “insurgents”, the site concluded: “If it is proven that they deliberately entered Iranian territory, they will be charged with espionage. If that is proven, they can expect a very serious penalty since according to Iranian law, espionage is one of the most serious offences.” The warning followed claims by Iranian officials that the British navy personnel had been taken to Tehran, the capital, to explain their “aggressive action” in entering Iranian waters. British officials insist the servicemen were in Iraqi waters when they were held. The penalty for espionage in Iran is death. However, similar accusations of spying were made when eight British servicemen were detained in th

The Iranian Navy captured 15 Brtitish Royal Marines. This is not the first time this has happened, but it comes at a very suspect time. The UN is still trying to figure out what to do with Irans Nuclear Program....

According to the song that British people like to sing at the Proms and other events, “Britons never shall be slaves” - Rule Britannia! Britannia rule the waves. Britons never, never, never shall be slaves. The nations, not so blest as thee, Must in their turn, to tyrants fall, Must in ,must in, must in their turn, to tyrants fall, While thou shalt flourish, shalt flourish great and free, The dread and envy of them all. Under secret government plans, however, this is exactly what may become of many unwanted citizens of Great Britain, as the government tries to find solutions to the prison overcrowding problem and unwanted foreign immigrants. It seems that the recent plans by John Reid at the Home Office to bring in prison ships in order to house the country’s growing population of criminals may have sparked the idea. Nobody at government level will admit to the plans or speak publicly about them, but leaked emails have revealed that certain groups of people may find t

LONDON (Reuters) - Nearly one in three Britons think that if a woman jumps up and down, washes or urinates immediately after sex, she can prevent pregnancy, a survey revealed Monday. It was one of a string of revelations in the survey carried out by the Family Planning Association (fpa) at the start of Contraceptive Awareness Week.They reveal "widespread confusion and misunderstanding" about some of the basic facts, said the fpa, which has called for improved sex and relationships education in schools."In today's sexualized society, we are bombarded with a multitude of sexual imagery and messages," said Anne Weyman, chief executive of fpa."Nevertheless, providing people with the information and skills they need to make positive choices about their health and lives is not considered a priority."One in five pregnancies currently ends in abortion, the fpa said.The survey showed that half the 500 people questioned did not know that a woman's most fertile time is between 10 and 16 days be

BRITONS MAKE MORE TIME FOR FRIENDSHIP THAN EVER BEFORE Modern friendship study reveals the average Brit has 21 more friends than in 2003  The average number of friends a person in Britain has today is 54, a rise of 64% compared to 2003, according to the "Windows Live: Anatomy of Friendship Report', a comprehensive study of the friendship patterns of over 1000 Brits.  The rise is attributed to the explosion in social networking sites and communication phenomena such as email and instant messenger. The study explores everything from how many friends we make in a lifetime, where we make them and how long we have known them, to how we communicate, conversation topics and even the friendliest places in the UK.  Key Findings: The identification of the "cyber friendship circle' as modern communications tools change the face of friendships Nearly a third (31%) of the population has made friends online We make 406 friends in a lifetime but lose 352 of them 45% of the population make