Having an accurate credit score is even more important as the financial crisis bites, writes Rob Murray.

Landlords who get into the sale and rent-back (Sarb) market can offer a service which is both ethical and profitable, says Emma Tyrrell.

You owe all visitors to your property a basic duty of care, writes Kara Gammell.

Miranda Richardson, 50, has been critically acclaimed for many film and theatre roles, but is arguably still best known for her comedy portrayal of the infantile 'Queenie' Elizabeth I opposite Rowan Atkinson in Blackadder. She lives alone in Notting Hill,

Now's the right time to back dull - but safe - dividend growth

Barclays has announced changes to its current accounts for personal customers, including the launch of an overdraft service called Personal Reserve and the introduction of new accounts.

Nationwide's latest house price index has recorded a 2.5 per cent drop in May, meaning house prices are now 4.4 per cent lower than they were this time last year.

It is currently a buyer's market in the UK, which some people have not yet realised, the chief executive of Firstrung has claimed.

Zurich has launched a new capital account - the Green Guaranteed Account - which offers access to potential stock market growth linked with the green business sector.

Those looking to invest in buy-to-let property should be aiming for a 40 per cent discount in today's market, according to the managing director of Landlord Mortgages.

Abbey has raised the rates on some of its fixed-rate mortgages by up to 0.56 per cent, reversing the cuts it made only a week ago.

Halifax Home Insurance has found that some 22 per cent of parents with children under the age of five have had kids' equipment or toys stolen from outside their home in the last year.

Alliance & Leicester's Business Cost Monitor has found that Milton Keynes is the most expensive place to run a small business in the UK outside of London.

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) has warned that the current difficulties in the mortgage market, with providers tightening their lending criteria and raising rates, are "stretching accessibility" and could reduce transaction levels by 40 per cent this year.

Tesco Health Insurance is offering to cover new customer's children free for the first year of the policy, provided they apply between May 29th and July 23rd 2008.

President Mwai Kibaki aggressively campaigned for Kenya's tourism sector and called for action to enable the national airlines of Kenya and Japan to begin flights between the two countries.

Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Thursday urged Japanese business people who are not yet investing in Africa, thinking that African markets are risky, to do so as a matter of urgency, because "Africa is now a safe destination" for their

Private schools are set to benefit from the newly signed partnership between International Finance Cooperation (IFC) and the Rwanda Development Bank (BRD) which is aimed at supporting lending to private schools and education service providers in Rwanda.

By around one o'clock when Industrialisation minister Henry Kosgey finished a tour of the Export Processing Zones (EPZ) at Athi River, thousands of job seekers - some previously laid off - had gathered at the entrance with various grievances.

The World Bank Group is proud to be a co-organiser of this event, and I'm pleased that we're joined by many partner countries and organisations, including from the private sector and civil society. And I'm absolutely delighted that so many