Archive for the 'money' Category

Lenders in stampede to withdraw fixed-rate mortgages

Saturday, July 7th, 2007

The cost of fixed rate mortgages looks set to rise sharply next week after banks and building societies started withdrawing products in response to Thursday’s bank rate rise.
Mortgage brokers were yesterday reporting that several big-name lenders including Abbey and Alliance & Leicester had withdrawn all or some of their fixed-rate deals. Britannia, Bristol & West, […]

Molly would be like other 'promiscuous' Scots, says lawyer

Saturday, July 7th, 2007

PAKISTANI lawyers representing the father of the runaway schoolgirl Molly Campbell have said that she would “soon be like any Scottish girl” in a culture that “condones sexual promiscuity” if she were to return to this country.
Dr Abdul Basit, speaking in a BBC documentary on Molly, who last August left her mother, Louise Campbell, […]

Piece of cake

Saturday, July 7th, 2007

The first trickle of home-grown (meaning not necessarily grown by you, but by someone near you) soft fruits offers a tantalising taste of summer. A gooseberry fool here, a bowl of strawberries and cream there. It’s all lovely and indulgent.
But now the soft fruits are coming thick and fast: raspberries, loganberries, tayberries, morello cherries, blackcurrants, […]

Get a cutting edge

Saturday, July 7th, 2007

Many gardeners, even experienced ones, are intimidated by the idea of taking cuttings. Yet it’s such fun, as well as a great way to save money.
Most cuttings are taken from stems. These fall into categories according to the ripeness of the stem throughout the growing year - from softwood, greenwood, semi-ripe, ripe through to hardwood. […]

Piece of cake

Saturday, July 7th, 2007

The first trickle of home-grown (meaning not necessarily grown by you, but by someone near you) soft fruits offers a tantalising taste of summer. A gooseberry fool here, a bowl of strawberries and cream there. It’s all lovely and indulgent.
But now the soft fruits are coming thick and fast: raspberries, loganberries, tayberries, morello cherries, blackcurrants, […]