House sales are taking more than three months to complete once an offer has been accepted, according to analysis by property buying website OneDome. The research looked at almost 200,000 property listings over the course of 2024 and found that property transactions took an average of 108 days to complete. However, in some parts of the
Annaliese Dodds quit the Government today with a broadside at Sir Keir Starmer over his plan to use foreign aid money to re-arm Britain. Earlier this week, the Prime Minister announced that defence spending will be increasing to 2.5 per cent of GDP by 2027, with a view to it hitting 3 per cent in
Britain spends billions of pounds a year on overseas aid – with UK taxpayers’ cash being splurged on projects such as shrimp farming in Bangladesh. Research by ‘The Waste Files’ campaign has revealed some of the examples of how Britons’ money is being spent around the world. This also includes poetry workshops in Colombian jails,
People made 16 trips to cash machines on average last year, according to data from ATM and cash access network Link. Some £79.5billion was withdrawn from ATMs connected up to Link’s network in 2024, which was a 1.2 per cent decrease compared with 2023. Across the UK, people over the age of 16 made 915 million