Top tips for the tax year
Christmas is already a memory but no sooner are the festivities out of the way than we are returned to the financial realities of life. First, there is the credit card bill for all those expensive presents and then, at the end of January, many of us will have to pay our tax bills.
Video guide: Time to get your finances in order
In our latest Money Matters video Chris McDonald of Cumberland Building Society gives some tips on how to ensure your finances are set up to ease the pain of the credit crunch.
Keeping your money safe with banks
Paul Dickson, of Armstrong Watson, talks about the crisis currently engulfing the British banking system and offers advice about which banks to use and why you should think seriously about putting your money outside the UK.
Advice from the experts
After Santa, expect the tax man
The nights are getting longer and many people’s thoughts will be turning to Christmas and festivities.
Personal finance news
Ageing, struggling Yuppies wish they’d done it different
Most Del Boy-style ‘Yuppies’ of the 1980s say they are now struggling financially. So-called Yuppies, or Young Urban Professionals epitomised 1980s success, and were infamous for their high spending, Filofaxes, having the latest gadgets and splashing out on expensive dining.
Rising fuel costs and food bills have left us all feeling the pinch. Phillip Ward of the Cumberlnad Building Society has some tips on surviving the credit crunch.
CARLISLE shops are set for a bumper Christmas despite a gloomy outlook nationwide, a city retail boss has predicted.
In our latest Money Matters video Chris McDonald, of the Cumberland Building Society, offers advise to home owners facing the end of a fixed-rate mortgage deal.
