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Police officer spent hours at baby’s death before buying sandwich only to find angry note on car

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‘We’re not robots’: Police officer slams person who left fake £100 fine on his windscreen for ‘shopping on the job’ when he stopped for a sandwich after working SEVEN hours at the scene of a baby’s death Officer, who works in North of England, shared incident on Twitter on Monday Found note reading ‘£100 fine … Read more

Buying a Stairway to Heaven: Led Zeppelin’s record label Warner Music eyes stock market flotation

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Buying a Stairway to Heaven: Led Zeppelin’s record label Warner Music eyes stock market flotation Warner Music recently posted its highest quarterly revenue for sixteen years   Muse, Coldplay and Green Day are among many rock bands signed to Warner  Billionaire owner Len Blavatnik donated £200million to Harvard Medical School By Harry Wise For This Is … Read more

Couple to host New Year’s party after buying £4m flat overlooking Thames and London Eye 

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Fancy hosting an exclusive New Year’s Eve rooftop party? Meet the couple planning just that after buying this luxury pad overlooking the London Eye MailOnline Property was given an exclusive tour of the luxury development at London’s Belvedere Gardens  There are 97 flats, but only 21 are still available to buy, with prices stretching to … Read more

First-time buyers are skipping flats and buying three bedroom houses instead

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More first-time buyers are skipping flats to leapfrog up the property ladder by buying smaller family houses Two thirds of potential first-time buyers are looking for houses rather than flats The average first-time buyer is looking for a house with three bedrooms They need average income of £54,400 to secure a mortgage on their first home … Read more

Should I put off buying a new home to potentially save on stamp duty?

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My wife and I are thinking about climbing up the property ladder and buying our second home. We have a budget of roughly £450,000 and have been to see one or two homes we are keen on. However, I noticed rumours are swirling about a potential axing of stamp duty on property sales under £500,000 … Read more

ALEX BRUMMER: Woodford investors should have better understood what they were buying into 

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The cult of personality in fund management is relatively new. The people managing our assets historically were hidden in the back rooms of big investment firms, subservient to the star dealmakers and traders. Perhaps inevitably in an age of celebrity, those who put up the best performances emerged from the shadows essentially as a marketing … Read more

Shoppers growing increasingly tired of buying their groceries online as missing items abound 

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Britons are starting to shun online grocery shopping after growing tired of missing items, dodgy substitutions, out of date goods, high delivery charges and hefty minimum order requirements, research has found. More than 60 per cent of people in a survey conducted by Mintel said they experienced some sort of issue with their online food … Read more