Beware bogus callers
Following a recent case where two men were convicted of conning an elderly man out of £147,000 police are advising how to avoid being duped by bogus callers. The team of phoney builders, who relentles ...
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Army of grandparents
An army of grans and granddads have been drafted in to help “pick up the pieces” of childcare – with nearly two million giving up work to help, a study has revealed. They are a hidden army of carers – ...
Annuities offer ‘fair value for money’
Many lifetime annuities offer fair value for money according to new research by Jonquil Lowe of the True Potential Centre for the Public Understanding of Finance at The Open University Business School ...
A holiday with a breath of fresh air
Did you know the UK’s largest walking and leisure holidays operator is a co-operative? Thomas Arthur Leonard pioneered walking holidays, when back in 1891, he gave Lancashire mill workers an alternati ...