Archive for May, 2008
New Consumer Protection Regulations Come Into Force
A new consumer law came into force yesterday. The Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 is intended to clamp down on many sales practices that most of us would have thought should have been illegal years ago.
There are 31 specific offences such as
1. Claiming to be a signatory to a code of conduct [...]
Encouraging Our Children To Be Creative And Adaptable To Face The Future
We hear a lot about education, how it is so vital that our children are prepared for the future and the country is supplied with qualified people to take us through this new and exciting century. No doubt this sort of thing was being said 20 or 30 years ago but it is questionable whether [...]
House Prices Expected To Drop This Year
The council of mortgage lenders is suggesting that house prices might drop around 7% in 2008. This would seem more than likely as demand for houses has halved, according to some sources, and the availablity of mortgages has been reduced.
The credit crunch has demonstrated that you cannot go on borrowing more and more, forever. It [...]
