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BT has announced its decision to withdraw the Redcare service with effect from August 2025
One of the UK’s leading alarm signalling systems, BT Redcare, will shut down from 1 August 2025 leaving thousands of customers to find a suitable alternative. Customers whose intruder and fire alarms are connected to BT’s Redcare signalling system should act quickly...
Spring Budget 2024
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, presented the Spring Budget to Parliament shortly after 12.30 this afternoon. The Spring Budget sets out the Government's tax and spending plans and could be the last major fiscal event before the General Election although...
Covid-19 measures: 4 May 2020 update
Following the range of updates over the last several weeks, we have now rounded up the latest information from the government on specific schemes where additional detail was released. This update covers measures discussed on 4 May. Bounce Back Loan Scheme (BBLS) The...
Updated Covid-19 measures: to 27 April 2020
Changes since last bulletin on 20 April 2020 Bounce back loan scheme launched with 100% government guarantee. Possible shape of Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme after the end of June. Abandonment of requirement for forward-looking financial information or business...
Covid-19 measures: to 20 April 2020 UPDATED
Changes since last bulletin on 3 April 2020 Cut-off date for individual eligibility for Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) moved to 19 March 2020. CJRS extended to 30 June. Revised eligibility requirements for Self-employed Income Support Scheme. New £1.25...
Covid-19 measures: to 3 April 2020 (updated)
Covid-19 measures: to 3 April 2020 The 11 March Budget from the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, included £7 billion of expenditure targeting the impact of Covid-19 on employees, the self-employed and businesses. On 17 March a further raft of measures was announced, amounting...
In Focus Spring 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced an international shut down of most everyday life and business. The Chancellor has already announced two rounds of measures to support the UK economy in addition to the emergency budget. In the Spring issue of In Focus we also look at...
Range of mortgage and protection services
French etymologists may tell you that the word ‘mortgage’ comes from the old French term ‘mort gage’ literally translated as a ‘death pledge’. That doesn’t sound so much like a legal loan agreement, but rather the title of a substandard horror film. Still, even today...
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