The presenters of the BBC’s Top Gear are well known for their crazy stunts and their bizarre road trip challenges, and it looks like this years’ Xmas special is going to be no exception. Over the last few years Top Gear has gone from strength to strength and its rating have soared, making it one [...]
It’s one of the age old problems in life, you manage to pick up a rental car at the airport and in the mad rush to get going you miss the dent on the bumper, or the scratch down the side, and a week later when you hand the keys back to the depot you [...]
Today the European Commission announced that it was spending a further €18m on the development and implementation of 4G mobile broadband. The EC is currently working on the LTE (Long Term Evolution) of wireless networks across Europe. LTE is heralded as the ‘fourth generation’ of mobile internet technology and is currently being implemented in the [...]
Finally there is some good news for UK savers today. When the recession hit early last year, interest rates feels through the floor and anyone who had been squirreling away hoards of savings in various institutions were unfairly punished by the rate cuts. Not only did the government and the bankers cripple the economy, but [...]
Despite the dismal attempt of a British summer (once again) and the news that unemployment is hitting near 3 million there are encouraging signs that things in the UK are looking up. For the second straight month the FTSE has rallied and the majority of UK’s companies have released financial reports stating growth for the [...]
The saga of bank charges continues… This week in a letter to MSE (moneysavingexpert.com) the Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg and his shadow chancellor Vince Cable committed their party to proposing a motion to have bank charge of £35 removed and made illegal. MSE have been campaigning against bank charges for over 3.5 years and [...]