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How mortgages work: Your essential guide to paying for a home

Houses are expensive. The average home in the UK costs £268,000, according to the Office of National Statistics - and that's almost ten times the [...]

BBC viewers face more repeats due to corporation’s budget changes

Viewers are facing the prospect of yet more TV repeats under cost-cutting changes at the BBC.A raft of measures to cut the corporation’s massive budget [...]

Why shopping at Aldi may only save you £5 a month: Meagre savings because middle-class still only do part of the shopping at budget retailers

Middle class shoppers switching to Aldi and Lidl are only saving £5 a month on groceries, figures show.The average customer of the budget chains is [...]

Police must merge 43 forces in England and Wales to cope with budget cuts

Police forces will have to merge to cope with having their budgets slashed by up to a quarter, senior officers have warned.The existing 43 forces [...]

Now police won’t visit even if your home was burgled because of budget cuts

Chief Constable Sara Thornton (pictured), the £252,000-a-year head of the National Police Chiefs’ Council, said burglary victims should no longer expect police officers to come [...]

Inheritance tax Budget reforms a boon to retirement apartment builders

Inheritance tax Budget reforms a boon to retirement apartment builders By Laura Chesters For The Daily Mail Published: 22:16 BST, 26 July 2015 | Updated: [...]

Defence budget ‘widened’ to hit Nato’s 2% target

Michael Fallon effectively admitted to 'creative accounting' yesterday in a bid to comfortably hit the Nato target of two per centMichael Fallon effectively admitted to [...]

George Osborne’s ‘living wage’ means councils face extra £1 BILLION budget cut

Councils face a £1billion a year increase in their wage bills because of George Osborne's 'living wage' pay hike, Town Hall chiefs claimed today.The Local [...]

BUDGET 2015: Winners and losers from George Osborne’s reforms of inheritance tax, minimum wage and pensions

Wednesday's Budget rolled out big reforms – of inheritance tax, the minimum wage and pensions. In this must-read special report, The Mail on Sunday’s awardwinning [...]

George Osborne and his 13m Budget losers as families to lose £260 a year

Thirteen million families will lose an average of £260 a year thanks to George Osborne’s decision to freeze working-age benefits, independent experts said last night.The [...]

Treasury at war over £39b tax grab as George Osborne’s Budget transforms pensions

Radical plans to axe up to £34billion worth of annual tax perks on pension pots has triggered a fierce row within the Treasury.Branded risky and [...]

George Osborne’s Budget has given the taxman powers to raid your accounts

The taxman has been given sweeping new powers to raid bank accounts and cash Isas to recover debts in a matter of weeks.Small print in [...]

Summer Budget 2015 income tax changes at a glance: How much less will you pay from next April?

How much better or worse off will you be from April this and next year following the summer Budget announced yesterday?The Chancellor George Osborne tinkered [...]

What the Budget dividend tax changes mean and 10 tips for minimising income tax

George Osborne revealed a shake-up in the way dividend income is taxed In the summer Budget yesterday. All taxpayers will have a tax-free dividend allowance of [...]

Alistair Darling says Labour ‘in disarray’ by Budget 2015 and has no economic policy

Labour has been left in 'complete disarray' by George Osborne's Budget, the former chancellor Alistair Darling has admitted.The Labour heavyweight, who spent 13 years in [...]

Budget 2015 to give HMRC power to raid current accounts and cash Isas

HMRC will be able to dip into individuals' current accounts and savings held in cash Isas to recover tax debts from the autumn, it was [...]

Interest rates to be left on hold as policymakers weigh Budget plans

Bank of England policymakers chewed over George Osborne's action-packed Budget today and assessed the state of the UK's economic recovery in the face of global [...]

George Osborne donned a more traditional suit for Budget 2015 speech

He was widely ridiculed earlier in the year for turning up to deliver the Budget in a pair of ankle-grazing trousers.But the Chancellor donned a [...]

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Budget makes Britain a better place to work

It was almost possible to feel sorry for Labour’s acting leader Harriet Harman, who had the hopeless task of replying for her partyAfter such a [...]

Winner or loser: What was in the Budget for you?

In the first fully Conservative budget in 19 years, Chancellor George Osborne has opted to help the lowest paid, while also providing a boost for [...]

ALEX BRUMMER: Antony Jenkins slipped a Budget day Mickey Finn

Not for the first time Barclays has produced a Budget day bombshell. The timing may be unfortunate, but the axing of the chief executive Antony [...]

George Osborne commits to NATO defence spending with yearly budget increases

Military spending will increase every year until the next election to meet the Nato defence target, George Osborne announced to cheers today.The Chancellor committed the [...]

Budget 2015 speech by George Osborne announces £12bn tax and welfare cuts

George Osborne froze benefits for four years and took an axe to tax credits today, but admitted it would take twice as long as originally [...]

Budget 2015 slashes buy-to-let landlords profits over mortgage interest tax relief

Thousands of buy-to-let landlords will see their earnings hit after George Osborne cracked down on mortgage interest tax relief in his summer Budget today.In a [...]

Budget 2015 unveils tax cuts for 29m people and vows ‘higher wage, lower tax’

Almost 30million people were promised an income tax cut as George Osborne brought forward help for low earners and the middle classes.From next April workers [...]

Budget 2015 analysis, reaction and verdict and what it means for you

BUDGET 2015 BLOG: Analysis, reaction and the verdict on the Chancellor's speech - and what it means for YOU By Rachel Rickard Straus for Thisismoney.co.uk [...]

Income boost for 29m workers next year as Budget raises tax-free allowance to £11k and 40p threshold is hiked to £43.3k

Some 29million British workers will be in line for a pay rise next year when the tax threshold is raised from £10,600 to £11,000, George [...]

George Osborne mocked after posing with pen over Budget 2015 printed speech

Can George Osborne write like an injket printer? Chancellor mocked after posing with pen over printed Budget speech By Matt Chorley, Political Editor for MailOnline [...]

Budget 2015 tax cut for middle class as George Osborne raises 40p threshold

George Osborne will announce a significant increase in the starting point for paying 40p tax – rewarding employees squeezed in the last ParliamentGeorge Osborne will [...]

More cuts are feared at next week’s Budget as the Chancellor lines up surplus law

Chancellor George Osborne could this week usher in deeper than expected spending cuts by forcing the Government to run a budget surplus within two years.Wednesday’s [...]

BBC is threat to free press and faces cuts in the Budget warns George Osborne

Mr Osborne has said the BBC must also contribute to the Government's money saving effortsGeorge Osborne has accused the BBC of being ‘imperial in its [...]

George Osborne to deliver a true blue Budget says JAMES FORSYTH IN THE CORRIDORS OF POWER

On Wednesday, George Osborne will stand up to deliver the first purely Tory Budget in more than 18 yearsOn Wednesday, George Osborne will stand up [...]

George Osborne enjoys Budget boost as economy gets its spring back

George Osborne enjoys Budget boost as economy gets its spring back By Hugo Duncan for the Daily Mail Published: 09:23 BST, 4 July 2015 | [...]

George Osborne urged to use first Tory budget to slash the 45p top rate of tax

Osborne urged to use the first Tory budget in 20 years to slash the 45p top rate of tax on those earning more than £150,000 [...]

Defence Secretary Michael Fallon says UK to use aid budget to stop migrant crisis

Britain will significantly scale back its efforts to rescue desperate migrants taking boats from Libya to Europe and instead send in elite forces to smash [...]

Chancellor on Budget tightrope as government borrowing falls to eight-year low … but national debt tops £1.5 TRILLION for the first time

Chancellor on Budget tightrope as government borrowing falls to eight-year low ... but national debt tops £1.5 TRILLION for the first time By Daily Mail [...]