
Ethical investments are no longer limited to investment funds! With the opening of the word’s first zero carbon supermarket in Cambridgeshire, we can cast an ethical vote with our cash every day.

Ethical investments are no longer limited to investment funds! With the opening of the word’s first zero carbon supermarket in Cambridgeshire, we can cast an ethical vote with our cash every day.
Eight of the top nine UK bank lenders are currently ‘battening down the hatches’ and considering loan applications only from existing customers, according to new research*.
Loans are most readily available to existing current account customers and this ‘lender reluctance’ is the latest symptom of how banks continue to tighten up on loan availability in the current unfavourable climate.
The government has promised a new personal tax to help the environment, in the week when Copenhagen gears up for its international conference on climate change. The new ‘eco-tax’ would aim to vastly reduce the amount of plastic in circulation, by imposing a charge on the use of plastic carrier bags in shops and supermarkets. Despite [...]
Banks are loosening up again on mortgage lending for first time buyers on the high street, according to new figures just released.
The British Banker’s Association (BBA), which monitors the mortgage lending activity of all the main high street banks, has revealed that latest mortgage lending statistics for October show that the number of new mortgages approved almost doubled compared to the (admittedly stagnant) levels of the previous-year period.







