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  • Post Office Launches New Mortgage Rates

    Post Office has today launched six market-leading mortgage deals. The new products include a two year fixed deal at 60% LTV at a rate of 1.54% (£1,995 arrangement fee), as Post Office enters the current rate fray.

  • Parents Set To Spend Over £200 Entertaining The Kids This Half Term

    - Parents expect to spend £2291 on keeping their children amused over half term - Week of woe: Nearly two thirds of parents (62 per cent) are worried about covering the costs - A third (31 per cent) will dip into their savings and 22 per cent plan to work overtime to make up the shortfall

  • Average UK Household Savings Fall

    - UK currently sits eleventh in league table of average potential savings below Spain and Italy - Amount UK households could be saving is down by more than 10 per cent since 2010 - Post Office predicts that by 2018 the UK will remain below the majority of advanced European economies in the savings league table

  • Close Knit Families: The UK's Space Starved Children Struggle For Room

    - Children forced to share a bedroom in a fifth of households - this is due to lack of space in one in ten UK homes - Adults have a smaller bedroom than children in a third of households - Aspiring movers can expect to wait four years before moving to a bigger house, but almost a third doubt they’ll ever be able to do so