As a student, money is tight. Bargains are treated like gold. Your pocket money or loan is spent on Tesco value toilet paper or recycled lined paper from Wilkinsons. But what happens when you have the urge to buy something new and out of the price range? Miscellaneous items such as clothes and pencil cases that students want will be heartbreaking for them if they are fully priced.
This is why the online website www.myunidays.com is available to students thanks to major brands providing student discounts. Students live in tough times since money matters nowadays, and they need their...
As Nectar - the UK's largest loyalty programme, with 18.5 million collectors - celebrates its 10th birthday, new data has revealed that Sainsbury’s customers in Exeter could have accumulated as much as an estimated 4.2 billion* points since Nectar began. The figure is equal to £21 million to spend in store - enough to buy 14 million chocolate birthday cakes or 1 million bottles of champagne !
Since the loyalty programme launched in 2002, almost £2 billion worth of rewards have been collected. Rewards include money off shopping, travel, eating out, entertainment and...
Taxpayers' money has been 'wasted' on a council management review from which there will be no final report, says a Devon councillor.
Teignbridge council hired retired local authority chief executive Jeffrey Ligo to review the council's management structure and suggest improvements and potential savings.
But now, after seven months of work, it's been revealed that Mr Ligo has been told not to bother with a final written report to Teignbridge's 46 councillors.
Instead, a report from the council's chief executive, Nicola Bulbeck, on...
As large businesses start to implement their auto-enrolment pensions from 1 October, NFU Mutual, a provider of pensions and investments, is urging smaller business owners in the South West to start making plans for their own workplace pension schemes.
Steve Meredith, pensions spokesperson for leading rural insurer NFU Mutual, said: “A lot of people running small and medium businesses might think they don’t need to be concerned about auto enrolment and workplace pensions. But they only have to have one eligible employee to be affected.
