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Nearly 12 million homes have increased in value by £49,000 or more since 2016. How much could your home be worth?The total value of British homes has soared by 20% in the past five years. That’s a whopping £1.6 trillion (tn), around the same figure as the market cap of Apple – the world’s most valuable company.It means that almost 12 million homes have jumped in value by the national average of £49,000 or more since 2016, according to our latest research. T...

Glide beneath the skyscrapers at the Canary Wharf ice rink. Though London is blessed with an abundance of spectacular ice rinks, it’s been a little while since we’ve seen the charming one at the heart of London’s financial hub. The Canary Wharf ice rink last made an appearance back in 2018, and whilst that seems an inordinately long time to wait to glide beneath the gleaming towers of Canary Wharf once more, there’s some good news: the rink is making a long-overdue comeb...

Amazon is expanding its presence on the High Street by opening its first non-food store in the UK. The shop, in the Bluewater shopping mall near Dartford, will sell around 2,000 of its most popular and best-rated products. It's called Amazon 4-star because every item has been given more than four stars by customers. However, one retail expert said the shop could be "muddled and uninspiring". This will be the first Amazon 4-star store outside the US, where there are already more t...

A mansion in Sussex that was once the most expensive private house in Britain has been left derelict for over three decades – and the property could even be haunted If you’ve ever driven over the East Sussex border, you may have seen a glimpse of an incredible sprawling mansion property known as Hamilton Place. Kent Live reports the home is hidden away just off an unassuming junction on the A22 south of Uckfield in East Sussex, and although the property was once the most expensiv...

Annual house price growth of 10% or more has been recorded for each of the past five months, according to data from Nationwide. The UK's largest building society said that prices in September were up 10% compared with a year earlier, a slight slowdown from 11% in August. The double-digit rise was driven by recent activity in Wales and Northern Ireland, the lender said, with London still seeing the slowest growth. The typical home now costs £248,742. Rapidly rising house price...

British soldiers will start driving tankers soon to replenish empty pumps as drivers queued again for fuel after days of shortages, despite Prime Minister Boris Johnson saying the situation was improving. Britain has been gripped by a rush of panic buying for almost a week that has left pumps dry across major cities after oil companies warned they did not have enough tanker drivers to move gasoline and diesel from refineries to filling stations. Business minister Kwasi Kwarteng said 150 so...

ENVIRONMENTAL health authorities have issued an urgent warning to those stockpiling fuel as more scenes of chaos from the weekend emerge. Over the weekend, garages in West Berkshire saw drivers pile up on the roads to buy petrol and diesel over fears they would run out of fuel. The problem ignited people to panic buy with one man pictured filling up three jerry cans in order to have fuel in reserve. As a result of panic buying, petrol station forecourts were forced to close after running out of...

LONDON, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Tech start-ups in London raised nearly as much in the first six months of 2021 as they did in the whole of last year, helping the British capital to retain its joint status with New York as the top location outside of Silicon Valley, new data shows. According to rankings compiled by Startup Genome, London scored highly for funding, talent and connections, despite the upheaval caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and Brexit. It maintained its second position tied with...