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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’
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Emirates adds southeast Asia capacity
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Adpro-Instruments supports Young Enterprise students
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Foundation sponsors University chair in digital marketing
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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
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Pantelleria through the eyes of a Russian
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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
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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
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Construction ‘past the worst’
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Nuisance neighbours deter buyers
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Lichtenstein-inspired graffiti artwork
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EU sees deeper eurozone recession throughout year
