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Rose Tremain won the Orange Broadband Prize for women’s fiction last night with The Road Home, a topical novel about an Eastern European immigrant.
Tremain, 64, had been shortlisted four years ago but the British author has never won any of the top three literary prizes the Booker, the Costa and the Orange despite being a [...]

As house prices falter, rents look set to rise after a long period of stability. A new report puts the number of tenants wanting to rent privately at a five-year high and this increased demand could see rents go up next year.
The Association of Residential Letting Agents (Arla) says that demand has been pushed [...]