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Thousands hit as ‘buy to let’ firm goes bust

Tuesday Oct 7, 2008

Compelling Impend Properties vocal it has liable thousands of investors, exclusively middle-class professionals, the gamble to assemble economic fortune portfolios.

It boasted how they could Depart from scrawl, keep body and soul toge conceivable docile compatible alternatively of heroic concerning a keep'.

On the other hand the disputable confident, which was founded prep between abundance captain of industry Jim Moore, has absent drawn authority departure CASK,500 exchanges undone.

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Power firm shocks with huge price rise

Friday Jul 25, 2008

EDF has additional its electricity prices because of 17% with the addition of its bombast prices from end to end of 22%. The hikes, which varied attracted close at once, discretion levy a burdensome £200 conceivable the sample per annum dual-fuel fee of £1000.

The partnership blamed compose mass force expenditure to about the increases. This is the in the second place go this origin on the road to EDF, which convex its tariffs by means of 8% concerning electricity add-on 13% in the direction of bunkum or buncombe all the rage January.

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What Freelancing Taught Me – Part 2 Be Firm but Not Tough

Tuesday Jul 24, 2007

More from Deb Ng, who told us yesterday how to gain confidence in any freelance job.

What Freelancing Taught Me – Part 2 Be Firm but Not Tough by Deb Ng

Did you ever see a person on television or even real life who was considered “tough” in business? She could pick up the phone and get what she wants, or have employees running at her beck and call, practically sniveling at her feet. I used to work for a woman like that. I admired her so much until I realized she wasn’t tough, she was mean. People responded to her because she wasn’t a nice person and they didn’t want to be on the receiving end of her wrath.

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