A bottle of water can cost as much as four times and diesel is being sold for as much as 13p a litre more, a report revealed.
Consumer group Which? compared the price of a basket of five typical purchases at Britain's 51 service stations.
A 500ml bottle of still water, 250ml can of Red Bull, [...]
The number of mortgages approved for home purchases, considered an indicator for the property market, rose by 4% in March, following February's 19% jump.
But homeowners have been warned not to expect a swift return to rising property prices. There were 39,230 mortgages approved for home purchases in March, according to the [...]
My mother had a bad stroke in 1996 and my father found it very difficult to pay for her care till her death in 2005.
I do not own a house and he would like to leave his house to me and my half brother from my late mother's first marriage. [...]
Personal insolvencies - which include both bankruptcies and Individual Voluntary Agreements (IVAs) - for January-to-March rose by a fifth on the same quarter a year ago to 29,744, the highest since records began in 1960.
A total of 19,062 people were declared bankrupt, 23.4% more than during the same period of [...]
How did house prices fall when the average home went up in value?
Simon Lambert, assistant editor at This is Money, replies: The Nationwide's house price index for April threw up an odd statistical anomaly.
It reported that house prices fell by 0.4% from March to April, at the same time as the average home rose [...]
We each live as 'single adults' in our respective homes so believe we should be eligible to claim the standard 25% single-occupancy discount in each.
However I have just moved into a different borough and they say that married couples have to elect a single property to be their primary residence on which full council tax [...]
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Anyone who sold their property at the peak of the Costas house-price boom may be entitled to ask the Spanish taxman to pay back overpaid capital gains tax (CGT).
Any homes sold in Spain are subject to CGT if the property has risen in value in the time you have owned it.
There used to be [...]
But a holiday destination for overseas visitors? Croydon is not an obvious choice. It is not a Canterbury. It is not a Stratford-upon-Avon. Yet Croydon - the Croydon Travelodge, no less - is one of the hotels that has seen something of a lift in the number of bookings from foreign visitors. [...]
The European Court of Justice supported a Greek Cypriot refugee's demand that a British couple surrender land to him for which he holds the original deeds.
Linda and David Orams built a holiday home on property that Meletis Apostolides was forced to flee when Turkish troops invaded Cyprus in 1974.
According to the ECJ judgment they [...]
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