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Archive for September, 2015

Christopher William Hill doesn’t travel light. Setting off on the Scottish Friendly Children’s Book Tour his suitcase was packed full of travel essentials; a preserved human heart, the bottled smell of freshly spewed child vomit, a Christmas bauble filled with poisoned pills, a gas mask and a pair of plastic safety goggles. Armed with these unusual props the author of the fantastically macabre Tales from…


Thinking of putting something away for a special treat in the future? Planning ahead usually helps, and with time on your side, a long term investments strategy using a Scottish Friendly ISA could be part of a wider savings and investment plan. Listed below are some points you may or may not have been aware of regarding Investment ISAs. #1 You can have two ISAs…


  “If things go on the way they are,” many people say in relation to the many changes there have been in pensions over the years, “I’m going to have to work until I drop.” One person who literally is set to continue “working” until she drops is HM The Queen who on Wednesday 9th September will become the longest-reigning British monarch. The record had…


The results are in! And, phew!, the Government will be relieved and Lamborghini will be disappointed to learn that the Great British public haven’t been blowing their hard-earned pension savings on top of the range gas-guzzlers. Indeed, the figures from the Association of British Insurers show that where people have built up a pension pot of a reasonable size, many of us are not in…


Schools are back and the Scottish Friendly Children’s Book Tour is revving up the book bus and getting ready to head out for our first tour of the Autumn Term. We are thrilled to be taking best-selling author Christopher William Hill, author of the deliciously gruesome Tales from Schwartzgarten series, to primary schools in Moray, Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen. Competition Time! To celebrate Christopher’s upcoming tour…


In the new BBC1 TV series “Britain’s Spending Secrets” aired last week, former Weakest Link and Watchdog host, Anne Robinson, takes a peek into the savings habits of people in the UK, specifically looking into the differing lifestyles of a single mum on benefits, a self-made multi-millionaire, a low income family, an aspiring middle income family and an old-money member of the aristocracy. Anne readily…


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