Home prices in Britain fell 2.5 percent in April, Nationwide, the country’s largest building society said Friday.
Prices have fallen seven consecutive months and are now 4.4 percent below a year ago.
Home prices in Britain peaked in October at an average price of $367,7620, the report said.
Howard Archer, an economist at Global Insight, said April’s figures [...]
Cannabis users could in future be automatically arrested and charged on their second offence, Jacqui Smith announced as she defied her own experts to tighten laws on possession of the drug.
The Home Secretary overrode the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) to confirm that cannabis would be restored from a class C to [...]
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Fear is a powerful, and sometimes blinding, emotion, especially for homeowners who need money. They fear the consequences if they can’t close on their home equity loan, a fact that dishonest lenders love to exploit. Here’s a brief description of three fraudulent mortgage tactics, as well as tips on how you can protect [...]
The Home Depot Inc. wants to build a store in Cameron Park, but some nearby residents are rallying opposition.
The home-improvement retail chain is targeting 33 acres off Highway 50 near Cambridge Road and Country Club Drive. It has submitted a pre-application for a 103,000-square-foot store plus a 35,000-square-foot garden center. Another 123,000 square feet [...]
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Americans are falling behind on their credit card payments at an alarming rate, sending delinquencies and defaults surging by double-digit percentages in the last year and prompting warnings of worse to come.
An Associated Press analysis of financial data from the country’s largest card issuers also found that the greatest rise was among [...]
Cancer patients who expect their oncologist to lend an
empathetic ear are often disappointed, new research suggests.
Researchers found that the emotional concerns of patients with advanced
cancer often went unrecognized or unaddressed by the doctors treating them.
The researchers recorded close to 400 conversations between oncologists [...]
Scientists at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), have devised a fast, simple and affordable test kit for detecting the poison, which is known as aflatoxin. Aflatoxin is produced by a fungus that can easily grow on many crops including common [...]
Abseiling Santa, otherwise known as Blair Agent, was assisted by his elves Jeremy Broad and Murray McCoy six floors above ground, much to the delight of shoppers, workers and pedestrians.
Wayne Offord, owner of the Bright Spark window cleaning company, said the staff had come up with the idea themselves.
Mr Agent, an abseiling instructor, was %26quot;the [...]