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CML: Gross mortage lending declines in April

Gross mortgage lending declined to an estimated £10.2 billion in April. Lending fell by 19% from £12.6 billion in March but was 2% higher than the total of £10.0 billion in April 2011, according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders.

BSA: UK consumers adopt self-build but lag behind Europe

One in 10 new homes in the UK are self built and the market generates £3 billion annually for the UK economy, says the BSA as it publishes a toolkit to provide information to encourage lenders not yet in this market to offer self-build mortgage finance.

Big Lottery Fund launches new £1.5bn England funding strategy

The Big Lottery Fund has today launched a new, £1.5bn England funding strategy to ensure that every pound spent on good causes gets maximum value for money in tough economic times.

Challenges ahead for consumers as financial services changes, warns BSA Chairman

Consumers will face increasing challenges as the fall-out from the financial crisis and economic pressures continue, warns out-going BSA Chairman, Peter Griffiths.

CPA: Construction Continues to Fall but Some Positive Signs

The latest Construction Trade Survey published today shows that construction continued to suffer during 2012 Q1 but there were positive signs for some parts of the industry.

BSA: Lending and Approvals Jump in March

Gross mortgage lending by building societies and other mutual lenders rose 58% in March 2012 compared to the same month last year, and by 40% in the first quarter of 2012 compared to the first quarter of 2011. Net lending by mutuals was positive for the sixth consecutive month.

NASUWT: Public services and economy "outrageously and unnecessarily sacrificed on the altar of coalition economic policy"

"The reason the country is facing a double dip recession is that a key driver of the Government's economic policy has not been about tackling the deficit, but to use the deficit as a smokescreen to pursue the ideologically driven destruction of public services." - Chris Keates, NASUWT. Read more here.

CML: Stamp duty deadline boosts March lending for house purchase

Gross mortgage lending in March was an estimated £13.4 billion, according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders. This represents a 30% rise from £10.3 billion in February and a 17% rise from March 2011 (£11.4 billion).

CML response to FSA mortgage market review consultation

To avoid causing problems in the mortgage market, the FSA needs to make some further amendments to its proposed package of regulatory reforms, says the Council of Mortgage Lenders in its consultation response submitted today.

BSA: February mortgage lending shows healthy trend for 2012

Gross mortgage lending by building societies and other mutual lenders rose 28% in February 2012, compared to the same month last year.

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Britain is a facing a "choppy" economic recovery which will take longer than previously anticipated.

A number of indicators out today demonstrate the bleak situation Britain faces itself in, triggering concern about the coalition government's policies announced in the emergency Budget.

The 20% rise in VAT has been blamed for inflation remaining higher than the Bank of England's two per cent target for longer than expected.

And the Bank's estimate of GDP growth in 2011, in its August inflation report published today, is significantly downgraded from around 3.4% to around 2.5%.

Meanwhile employment figures fell by 0.2% in the three months to June 2010 to 7.8%. But the good news from the jobs market is not expected to last.

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Paxman: "Your challenge will be to stop yourself becoming a total irrelevance."

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Festival of Social Sciences: 2 languages: 2 brains, 2 minds, 2 cultures?

As part of the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences, the Deafness Cognition And Language Research Centre (DCAL) hosted an event exploring the powerful benefits of bilingualism in spoken and sign languages, for hearing and deaf people alike - benefits that reach hearing and deaf people alike.

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BHA: The Marriage Debate - ‘This house would legalise same-sex marriage in England and Wales'

Two weeks before the Government’s consultation on same-sex marriage draws to a close, Andrew Copson, Chief Executive of the British Humanist Association is participating in a debate hosted by Catholic Voices on the motion, ‘This House Would Legalise Same-Sex Marriage’.

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No 10 unleashes Tory gay marriage opposition with free vote move

No eurozone answers as crisis drifts on

Must try harder: £35bn remains in uncollected tax

Leveson vs Paxman: 'You could become an irrelevance'

Cameron lashes out: Ed Balls branded a "muttering idiot"

Rees-Mogg: Coalition can't fix Britain

The Watson/Mensch love-in continues… sort of

Pseudo facts? New London Assembly gets off to a rocky start

Beecroft stings 'socialist' Cable

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