THE LOCAL ECONOMY “It’s the economy, stupid” is not the newest phrase in the political lexicon, having been around since Bill Clinton’s successful Presidential campaign in 1992. Yet today it survives perhaps with greater resonance in view of the recent…
Bournemouth Council has set aside £15M to promote a bank that would assist its Council Tax payers who find sourcing a mortgage challenging, because the criteria of main stream banks and Building Societies effectively excludes them. There will also be…
The 2008 banking crisis forced a major rethink about how the UK financial system worked and what might be done to improve and stabilise it for the future. The banking paralysis that followed the crash produced a number of new…
