Legal hurdles to super-fast broadband deal with Openreach A proposed £600 million deal has been announced between the UK government and BT Group’s network subsidiary OpenReach. The deal which aimed to deliver superfast broadband to 1.4 million rural homes, now

Information Commissioner’s Office dispels GDPR Myths From May 25 2018 the new EU General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) will come into force.  The new EU GDPR has been designed to strengthen online privacy rights. This will cover everything from data

Insolvencies up amongst the young The numbers of young people struggling to pay back debt has had a sharp rise. Insolvency rates amongst 18-34 year-olds are growing faster than any other age group, they shot up from 6.4 per 10,000

Growth figures raise chances of rate rise The UK’s economy is getting stronger. According to the latest Office for National Figures statistics, we  had a higher than expected growth  in the three months through to September. This in turn could

Markets Round-Up 26th October 2017. Stock Markets U.S. stocks slumped last night as, as a round of disappointing corporate earnings and a spike in bond yields put both the Dow (23329.46 ⇓0.48%)  S&P 500 index (2557.15 ⇓0.47%)   and Nasdaq (6563.89 ⇓0.52%)