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How first time buyers could benefit from weak house price growth
1May By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

How first time buyers could benefit from weak house price growth

    The number of first-time buyers in the property market is approaching levels seen before the financial crisis even as house prices stall. New homeowners are capitalising in a buyer's market, with April marking the fifth consecutive month that annual property inflation across the UK was less than 1 per cent, Nationwide's latest House Price Index revealed today. Since this time last year average property prices across the UK have increased by just £1,920, or 0.9 per cent, to £214,920. Jonathan Hopper, managing director of Garrington Property Finders, said: 'At a national level, house prices have made stagnation into an art form.' House prices rose 0.4 per cent in April, Nationwide said, although this figure is seasonally-adjusted, without which the £1,818 monthly ga...
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May told tear up your red lines
1May By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

May told tear up your red lines

    Theresa May has no option but to tear up her red lines on a customs union if she wants to pass her Brexit deal, one of Jeremy Corbyn’s closest allies said today. Shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey spoke out as both Cabinet and Labour sources confirmed cross-party talks have moved significantly in recent days, pointing to a potential deal within a fortnight. Both sides agree there has been a change of tone this week, and that any deal is likely to be built around the principle that any future Tory or Labour government with a clear Commons majority would be free to negotiate changes. Ms Long-Bailey made clear, however, that Mrs May will have to make a decisive shift towards Labour’s policy for a customs union. “I think, pragmatically, that they potentially...
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Meghan and Harry support mental health charities on Instagram
1May By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Meghan and Harry support mental health charities on Instagram

    The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have shared a new and unique approach as to how they will be supporting the causes they care about on Instagram. In a post shared on Sussex Royal yesterday, the couple explained that they will solely be following organisations that they wish to draw attention under an umbrella issue, which will change every month. Each month we will honour this concept and change the accounts we solely follow based on a different theme or cause. In the post, they announced that they would be kicking off by drawing attention to a number of organisations that promote mental health and wellbeing. The couple who have both been very active in supporting these issues for years shared a collage of a number of images from charities that they wish to support....
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Japan’s emperor Akihito abdicates
30Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Asia, Featured

Japan’s emperor Akihito abdicates

    Japan’s emperor Akihito has called his 30-year reign a blessing and thanked the people of Japan for their support as he became the country’s first monarch to abdicate in two centuries. Speaking at a brief ceremony in the state room of the imperial palace a day before his eldest son, Naruhito, takes his place as the new occupant of the chrysanthemum throne, the 85-year-old Akihito said he had spent the 30 years of his reign performing his duties with deep respect and love for the people. That has been a great blessing, he said, before offering his heartfelt gratitude to the people of Japan who accepted me as the symbol of the state and supported me. He said he hoped the country’s future would be a stable and fruitful one, and pray with all my heart for peace and for...
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Assange spied on by Ecuador’s diplomatic staff
30Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Assange spied on by Ecuador’s diplomatic staff

    An Ecuadorian lawyer for Julian Assange has filed a complaint alleging diplomatic staff from Ecuador spied on the WikiLeaks founder while he was at the country’s London embassy. The alleged spying uncovered information about Mr Assange’s legal defence and medical issues, Carlos Poveda said in the complaint submitted Monday to the attorney general’s office in Ecuador. The lawyer claimed diplomats and members of a security firm were involved in surveillance efforts in west London. Mr Assange had enjoyed asylum at the embassy since 2012, but Ecuador evicted him on 11 April. He is now in custody in the UK awaiting sentencing for skipping bail to avoid being sent to Sweden as part of an investigation into a rape allegation. The British government has previously said th...
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We tried everything: The price of speaking out against Saudi Arabia
30Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Arab world, Featured

We tried everything: The price of speaking out against Saudi Arabia

Kareem Fahim: Only after her brother had been gone for months, after the confounding silence of officials in Saudi Arabia about his fate and the rumors he was being abused in prison, did Areej al-Sadhan turn to what she considered a last and painful resort. She went public. Sadhan decided to give interviews to the foreign news media and post appeals online, hoping the attention would prod the Saudi government into revealing the status of her brother, Abdulrahman al-Sadhan, a 35-year-old aid worker who was arrested more than a year ago. Saudi authorities strongly discourage families from seeking publicity, and she feared they might retaliate against her or her brother. Her decision also seemed likely to invite a torrent of insults from the kingdom’s defenders online. “We tried everything...
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Zuckerberg builds a sleep box for his wife
29Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
America, Featured

Zuckerberg builds a sleep box for his wife

    Mark Zuckerberg has built an innovative "sleep box" for his wife Priscilla Chan to help with her recent bout of sleeplessness. On Sunday, the Facebook founder shared his invention on Instagram, explaining that Chan has had a hard time sleeping through the night since having the couple's two young children, Maxima Chan Zuckerberg and August Chan Zuckerberg, in 2015 and 2017 respectively. She'll wake up and check the time on her phone to see if the kids might wake up soon, but then knowing the time stresses her out and she can't fall back asleep, Zuckerberg wrote in the caption. The 34-year-old explained that the wooden box is placed on his wife's nightstand, and emits a faint, glowing light at the bottom between 6am and 7am. The light is visible enough that if she ...
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Corbyn hit by 2nd referendum revolt
29Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Corbyn hit by 2nd referendum revolt

    Jeremy Corbyn was hit by a growing revolt today as four union bosses ratcheted up pressure on the Labour leader to clearly back giving the public another say on Brexit. They lined up with senior MPs to urge Mr Corbyn to come off the fence and throw his weight firmly behind a confirmatory vote on any Brexit deal. Ahead of a crunch meeting of Labour’s National Executive Committee, GMB general secretary Tim Roache told The Standard: “It must be the public who have the final say on Brexit. A grubby political stitch-up to meet the needs of internal Tory party politics, rather than the best interests of our country, won’t put this question to bed for a minute, let alone a generation. Unison general secretary Dave Prentis stressed: The Prime Minister’s deal and a no-deal ...
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Corbyn launches bid to declare climate emergency
28Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Corbyn launches bid to declare climate emergency

    Labour will this week force a vote in parliament to declare a national environmental and climate change emergency as confidential documents show the government has spent only a fraction of a £100m fund allocated in 2015 to support clean air projects. Jeremy Corbyn’s party will demand on Wednesday that the country wakes up to the threat and acts with urgency to avoid more than 1.5°C of warming, which will require global emissions to fall by about 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, reaching “net zero” before 2050. The move will place Conservative MPs under pressure to back the plan, or explain why they refuse to do so, now fears over the combined problems of air pollution and climate change have risen to the top of the political agenda. On Saturday night Corbyn said the r...
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Influential Tory ramps up pressure on May: ‘You should go today’
23Apr By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Influential Tory ramps up pressure on May: ‘You should go today’

    A senior member of the 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers has called for Theresa May to step down immediately suggesting the influential group could set a timetable for her departure. Nigel Evans, the committee’s joint executive secretary, said the process for selecting a new leader can’t start soon enough. To be honest I would be delighted if she announced today she was announcing her resignation and we could then have an orderly election to choose a new leader of the Conservative party, he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. I believe the only way we’re going to break this impasse properly is if we have fresh leadership of the Conservative party … If there was an announcement today by the prime minister then of course we could start the process straight away. T...
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