That's good. Hadn't heard that. If only Lancs had been docked the threatened 8 points for their shite pitch last week, sadly the inspectors let them off...
My mum used to work in one of England's biggest book wholesalers, who supply libraries, colleges and so on. Staff were able to buy unwanted stock at knock-down prices.
She's still kicking herself for not carting off a job lot of first editions of the first Harry Potter, which instead probably...
Essentially it means something that ain't a big chain (Holiday Inn, Travelodge etc), independently-owned and doen witha bit more style and individuality than a bog-standard B&B or traveller hotel.
But it's become a catch-all term for any hotel trying to pass itself off as a bit hip and funky...
Absolutely not true. Even during the dotcom boom and other good periods on the stock market the Lloyds pension wheezed pathetically along and never once got anywhere near close to what I'd put into it. Ever. If anything, it was utterly immune to good AND bad periods on the stock market. It was...
If I was you I'd look beyond some of the big high street institutions. They don't necessarily give good returns.
When I graduated, I stupidly let Lloyds Bank talk me into starting a pension with them. For 15 years I dutifully paid into it, and after all that time it was still worth less than...
Funny how the news comes out just as her TV show comes back to our screens. Just like Hugh Grant split from Jemima Khan the week his new film came out.
Someone really ought to invent a way of doing things like this, and call it, I dunno... 'PR', maybe?