Fraudsters are taking advantage of lonely singles on Valentine’s Day February 12, 2016 Haven't completely lost your faith in humanity yet? We suggest you sit down… Research by KPMG has found dastardly fraudsters are using dating sites to target lonely singles on Valentine's Day. In fact, according to its fraud barometer, people lost £3.2m to dating scams in 2015. One fraudster conned five women out of £180,000 – and used [...]
Valentine’s Day 2016: City folk and MPs have different approches to Valentine’s gift-giving February 11, 2016 In the run-up to the big day, news reaches us that Londoners are some of the most disorganised romantics out there, but most of us are still better than the politicians. Londoners may be the most generous Valentine’s gift-givers in the country, spending over twice as much on each other than the rest of the UK, [...]
Pro-Heathrow group sends Valentine’s Day message to “commitment-phobe” Prime Minister David Cameron February 11, 2016 Pro-Heathrow expansion group Back Heathrow is hoping to find love this Valentine's day from Prime Minister David Cameron, sending him a romantic message urging him to "make a commitment" to Heathrow. The message is from a "busy west London airport, well-built, popular, looking for a commitment (to a third runway), hoping "David Cameron will make my [...]
Need some Valentine’s Day ideas? We’ve got you covered with our expert guide to the perfect date February 10, 2016 It’s almost Valentine’s Day, the yearly celebration of big kisses on the mouth, so you know what that means: candle-lit dinners, small boxes of chocolate cubes, asking your beloved to turn all the lights on and off in quick succession to create a strobe effect as you dance every kind of forbidden sex-dance there is. But [...]
Almost half of UK professionals wish they had a workplace spouse, as they can be a great source for mentorship and advice February 10, 2016 Valentine's Day is now a mere four days away and love is in the air – and, apparently, the office, but not in the way you might be thinking. A survey released today by jobs website CV-Library has discovered that almost half (47 per cent) of UK professionals either have or wish they had a workplace spouse, a [...]
To fuel the pensions revolution, we need to put passion into pensions – and that means opening them up to social investing February 9, 2016 The humble nudge has worked. With around six million people now automatically enrolled into their first pension, we have reason to be hopeful that the UK is now saving for its future. However, it’s much too early to declare mission accomplished. We’re still waiting for the large number of smaller companies to enrol their employees into schemes, and they [...]
UK retail sales climbed in January, according to data from the British Retail Consortium and KPMG February 9, 2016 British retailers enjoyed some therapy last month as shoppers cast off the January blues and returned to the high street, according to new figures out today. UK retail sales rose by 2.6 per cent on a like-for-like basis from January 2015, when they had increased 0.2 per cent from the preceding year, according to figures from the [...]
Valentine’s Day 2016: Morrisons is selling oysters for 25p each ahead of Valentine’s Day – the same price as a Cadbury Freddo February 8, 2016 Lidl may be famous for its champagne, but one of the big four supermarkets appears to be fighting the competition by slashing the price of oysters ahead of Valentine's Day this year. Morrisons is to sell fresh British oysters for just 25p each – the price of an average Cadbury Freddo in a move to try to outshine its [...]
London’s cheapest and most boring Valentine’s Day gift-givers revealed in research February 8, 2016 London’s most miserly Valentine’s Day gift-givers have been exposed. West Londoners are set to receive presents worth just £40 on average this year, research by parcel company Doddle found. That's less than half the £83 East London’s romantics have splurged on their better halves so far this February. South Londoners have also been generous, with gifts [...]
Valentine’s Day 2016: Forget about Black Friday and Cyber Monday – today’s the day for peak online hunting for the perfect Valentine’s Day gift February 8, 2016 If your colleagues' computer screens have taken on a pink and red hue, don't fire off a concerned email to IT. They're probably just on the hunt for a gift for their significant other as Valentine's Day looms. According to an analysis of Google Trends data released today by the Post Office, the Monday before Valentine's Day [...]