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Funding Circle, a peer-to-peer lending website designed to make it easier for SMEs to access finance, has passed the £100million mark on its loan book! £50million of that has been leant since September 2012 including £10million in the last 30 days alone! These lenders match investors and businesses on the…

Until 2015, says the Sunday Express writer, Tracey Boles... Interest rates could stay at their current record low of 0.5% for at least another two years according to economists. The prediction that rates will be held until 2015 comes ahead of the latest meeting of the Bank of England Monetary…

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has told banks to contact borrowers in an effort to prevent them defaulting on their loans. Around 600,000 homeowners will have to repay their interest-only mortgage before 2020 and just under half will not have enough money to pay the loan back in full, according…

Most of us will remember the devastating effects “Men Behaving Badly” star Leslie Ash suffered, following her lip-plumping non-surgical procedure. So, it’s fair to say that the recent reports of fillers going wrong are not too surprising. A booming business The whole cosmetic surgery industry was worth £2.3bn in the…

Many other women have suffered serious harm after seeking to enhance their appearance cosmetically. Businesswoman Penny Johnson is currently suing a cosmetic surgeon for £54m after her partial facelift in Leeds in 2003 allegedly left her with a facial twitch, pain around her right eye and grimacing. She claims her…

The housing market will finally return to life this year with more than a million people expected to move home – the highest number since the financial crisis struck. The Ernst & Young Item Club, which uses the Treasury's economic models, predicted that housing transactions this year will rise by…

Head of Personal Injury at Abacus Solicitors LLP, Robin Torr, has recently won a claim for a gentleman who stood in a grid in which a piece of plywood had been inserted following the theft of the grid cover. Liability was denied. The Council claimed that they had a reasonable…

A fresh investigation has been launched into care at Leeds children's heart surgery unit after claims that mothers have been put under undue pressure to abort babies with 'untreatable' heart defects rather than refer them to a rival centre. The article in the Sunday Times goes on to say that…

More than 8,000 police officers have successfully claimed compensation worth nearly £70 million in the past four years, official figures have revealed. Data released from the Police Federation of England and Wales, the staff union that represents more than 120,000 rank and file officers, reveals for the first time the…