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250,000 will have to sell home to pay off mortgage
While most young people in the UK are struggling to get on the property ladder, some over 50s are clinging on to the last rung. Research by The Saga Equity Release Advice Service shows that more than a million over 50s are set to face a shortfall...
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UK estate agents ‘should pass tests’
First-time buyers would feel more confident when buying a home if UK estate agents had to pass compulsory tests to show they are up to scratch, a study found on Thursday. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), which carried out the...
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Emirates adds southeast Asia capacity
Emirates has increased in capacity on its Bangkok and Hong Kong services. Bangkok, one of Emirates’ earliest destinations in the Far East that joined the network in 1990, will receive a second daily, non-stop Airbus A380 service from October 27,...
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Adpro-Instruments supports Young Enterprise students
During a ceremony held recently at the Centre for Entrepreneurship in Tigné, Sliema, Emidio Friggieri, general manager of Adpro-Instruments Ltd, underlined the importance of quality. Adpro-Instruments sponsors the Junior Achievement Young Enterprise...
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Foundation sponsors University chair in digital marketing
The Alfred Mizzi Foundation has donated funds to the Research, Innovation and Development Trust (RIDT) of the University of Malta to establish a chair in digital marketing. Called The Alfred Mizzi Foundation Chair in Digital Marketing, the post will...
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Warm weather boosts Waitrose
Upmarket grocer Waitrose has defied the squeeze on consumer spending to deliver an 11.1 per cent rise in first-quarter sales. The supermarket, part of the employee-owned John Lewis Partnership, said most of its growth during the three months to the...
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IMLI graduation ceremony
Transport Minister Joe Mizzi, Economy, Investment and Small Business Minister Chris Cardona, Foreign Affairs Minister George Vella and Parliamentary Secretary for Competitiveness and Economic Growth Edward Zammit Lewis recently participated in the...
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Pantelleria through the eyes of a Russian
The Illustration Presentation on Cruising is a popular activity organised by the Malta Cruising Club, whereby a member who has had an exciting and colourful cruising trip shares his experience with other members of the club. A few weeks ago, it was...
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Rescue corps holds AGM
The annual general meeting of the Emergency Response and Rescue Corps held recently highlighted the work and projects done by the corps last year. This included EU projects conducted by the ERRC, such as the Tactical Medic and Calm Waters. The...
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Oil giant boss poised to step down
The boss of oil giant Shell announced more bumper profits last Friday but said he will quit the group next year in search of a “change in lifestyle”. Peter Voser, who is 54 and has been chief executive of Royal Dutch Shell since July 2009, told...
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70% of customers prefer healthy tills
Lidl UK has doubled the number of healthy tills in stores nationwide to 1,200 after 70 per cent of the 1,294 customers surveyed said they preferred to use a healthy till for their family food shop. Lidl introduced the tills, which replace ‘treat’...
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Dhalia at A Place in the Sun Live
Dhalia Real Estate Services recently attended A Place in the Sun Live at the London Olympia. This expo, attended by over 100 exhibitors, as well as TV personalities who host the UK television programme bearing the same name, helps visitors choose an...
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Richard England exhibition at BOV
Around 150 panels featuring Richard England’s work in architecture, sculpture, graphics and art will take centre stage at Bank of Valletta’s 21st retrospective exhibition. The exhibition will be inaugurated by President George Abela and will run...
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Nationwide to scrap historic society brands
Nationwide is to scrap three historic building society brands that it took over at the height of the financial crisis, with the loss of 500 jobs. Up to half of 91 branches of the Cheshire, Derbyshire and Dunfermline mutuals are to be shut as a...
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Firms ‘flouting responsibilities’
A rising number of cancer patients in the UK feel discriminated against when they return to work after treatment, a charity has said. Almost two in five patients (37 per cent) who go back to work after being treated for cancer say they experience...
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BSkyB profits increase 9% to £994m
Satellite broadcaster BSkyB insisted its sports offering had “never been in better shape” as it laid down the gauntlet to rival BT with a leap in earnings and subscriber numbers. The group said operating profits increased nine per cent to £994...
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Construction ‘past the worst’
Britain’s beleaguered construction industry showed signs it may be ‘past the worst’ as figures revealed a marked slowdown in its overall decline, helped by a boost in house building. The sector experienced its slowest rate of contraction in six...
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Nuisance neighbours deter buyers
An aerial view of houses on residential streets as nuisance neighbours are the biggest turn-off for prospective home-buyers, ahead of messy gardens and bad taste decorations, a property website has found. People living in the North East and the East...
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Lichtenstein-inspired graffiti artwork
Shannon Craig, aged 20, holds a copy of a giant Roy Lichtenstein-inspired graffiti artwork she helped to produce with the help of the Tate Modern Gallery, which is open for public display, close to the Tate Modern Gallery in south London. Working...
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EU sees deeper eurozone recession throughout year
The eurozone economy will contract by more than expected this year and Budget deficits will decline more slowly, the European Commission said yesterday as it set out forecasts for the next two years. France, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands – four...
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