MOST first-time buyers have to make sacrifices when it comes to saving for a deposit - and for Jay Macklin that meant selling his dream car. The mechanical engineer flogged his six-year-old Audi TTS for £13,000 six months after he bought it so that he and his wife Sarah, 24, could get their foot on the property ladder. Two years on, the couple say it was totally worth it to buy their £145,000 three-bed semi-detached house outside Chester by the time Sarah turned 22. It took more than just selling the car for the pair to get the funds together for a 10 per cent deposit and enough to cover legal fees, which worked out at £17,000 in total. They both opened Help To Buy Isas which they paid £200 into each every month, as well as giving up eating out, shopping for new clothes and going to the cinema to help save an extra £400 a month between them. But Sarah, who works in marketing, and Jay, 25, couldn't celebrate becoming homeowners straightaway, as the dated decor … [Read more...] about Couple sell £13k ‘dream’ sports car to help buy £145k three-bed first home in Chester
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Council backs off banning dogs from sports pitches – but ‘foulers’ face fines
0 Post a comment Thursday, 14 March 2019 - Local People by Matt Discombe - GEM Local Democracy Reporter [email protected] Plans to ban dogs from sports pitches in the Vale have been dropped. Dog walkers will still face fines of £100 if they do not pick up dog faeces on sports pitches and other public spaces or break any other part of a proposed public spaces protection order (PSPO).But the ban from sports pitches, proposed in the initial consultation on the PSPO, has now been withdrawn. Seasonal bans of dogs from Penarth seafront and the Knap beach are also set to be removed but dog bans will still apply on a seasonal basis on beaches at Whitmore Bay, Dunraven Bay, and Cwm Colhuw.Dogs would still be banned from all children’s play areas, ecological conservation areas and bowling greens in the Vale, and they would be required to be on leads all year round on the promenade at Whitmore Bay, and on Penarth seafront and Pier.The sports pitch ban was … [Read more...] about Council backs off banning dogs from sports pitches – but ‘foulers’ face fines
Debenhams to consider Sports Direct loan amid escalating tussle
Debenhams to consider Sports Direct loan amid escalating tussle BelfastTelegraph.co.uk Beleaguered retailer Debenhams has said it will give “careful consideration” to a £150 million loan proposal from Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct amid an escalating row between the pair. https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/debenhams-to-consider-sports-direct-loan-amid-escalating-tussle-37912467.html https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/article37912468.ece/624e1/AUTOCROP/h342/bpanews_b360ab8f-95ef-42f0-a87b-b76de95e055f_1 Email Beleaguered retailer Debenhams has said it will give “careful consideration” to a £150 million loan proposal from Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct amid an escalating row between the pair. Its response followed Sports Direct’s confirmation late on Wednesday that it had made an offer of a loan to Debenhams as part of an arrangement which would install Mr Ashley as chief executive of the company. This came as Sports … [Read more...] about Debenhams to consider Sports Direct loan amid escalating tussle
Why Sheffield Wednesday fans are furious after Sky Sports change Norwich City kick-off time
0 Have your say Sheffield Wednesday fans have hit out at Sky Sports after their away match against Norwich City was chosen to be broadcast live. The Owls travel to Carrow Road on Friday, April 19, as they look to make a late surge for a play-off place with the game originally due to kick off at 3pm. However, the match is one of eight chosen by Sky Sports to be shown live over Easter and has now been moved to 7.45pm. Sheffield United’s home clash against Nottingham Forest will also be shown live on Good Friday and the match will now be played at 12.30pm. However, the news has not gone down well with Wednesday supporters who have hit out at Sky Sports for changing the kick-off time ‘without thinking of the fans’. Travelling away fans, who already face a seven-hour round trip down to Norwich on Good Friday, will only finish watching their team at Carrow Road at around 9.30pm. This means fans will only be … [Read more...] about Why Sheffield Wednesday fans are furious after Sky Sports change Norwich City kick-off time
Charlie Whiting dies aged 66: F1 race director hailed as ‘giant of the sport’
Formula One race director Charlie Whiting, a popular and key figure in the sport, has died three days before the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, the governing FIA said in a statement on Thursday. He was 66. The Briton, who started his career working for the Hesketh team in 1977, died in Melbourne of a pulmonary embolism, it said. "It is with immense sadness that I learned of Charlie's sudden passing," said Jean Todt, president of the International Automobile Federation. "He has been a great race director, a central and inimitable figure in Formula One who embodied the ethics and spirit of this fantastic sport. Formula One has lost a faithful friend and a charismatic ambassador in Charlie." Whiting, who had been race director since 1997, first worked in Formula One for defunct British outfit Hesketh before crossing to Brabham to work with the sport's former commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone in the 1980s. He joined the FIA as a technical delegate in 1988. As FIA … [Read more...] about Charlie Whiting dies aged 66: F1 race director hailed as ‘giant of the sport’