A selection of Debt Statistics from www.creditaction.org.uk released in September 2010.
July 2010
The United Kingdom Minimum Wage Rates:
2012 from 1 October – £ 6.19 per hour (£ 235.22 per 38 hour week)
Hourly Minimum Rates
£ 6.19 Adult aged 21 and over
£ 4.98 18-20 year olds
£ 3.68 16-17 year … Read the rest
I know that there are many British in Australia, but I have never really looked into how many Aussies there are in Britain. (Britain or UK, I can never decide which to use).
The 2001 UK Census recorded … Read the rest
A question or two, that is often thought, probably by many people:
A report in 2008 showed that the cost of the Monarchy to the tax payer is … Read the rest
Reforms to the British Monarchy now being implemented include:
The FIRST child of a current Monarch will now become King or Queen, this marks the end of the male primogeniture rule.
Any heir to the throne who marries a Roman … Read the rest
Since 1826, the Pulteney Distillery has crafted a Single Malt Scotch Whisky that is the very essence of it’s remarkable location, and in the Jim Murray Whisky Bible 2012 Awards, their Old Pulteney 21 Year Old, has beaten 1,200 others … Read the rest
The Office for National Statistics Labour Market Statistics, October 2011 report is showing that the UK unemployment rate has now risen to 8.1%, up from 7.7% for the previous quarter.
There was an increase of 114,000 unemployed to bring the … Read the rest
UK population figures for 2010 sourced from www.statistics.gov.uk, with calculations to show differing birthplaces.
| Population | Location | Born in UK | Born in Europe | Born Elsewhere |
| 61,354,000 | United Kingdom | 88.36% | 3.72% | 7.91% |
| 51,454,000 | England | 87.24% | 3.93% | 8.83% |
| 2,553,000 | North East | 94.91% |
English-only rule ‘breaches human rights’…
Polish and Latvian employees at a UK warehouse accused their bosses of breaching their human rights by ordering them to speak only in English to colleagues.
The mainly Polish and Latvian staff at a Midlands … Read the rest
It has now been two years since we bought one of these Halogen Cookers, and I am pleasantly surprised at how worthwhile it turned out to be.
We bought it when our main oven packed in, and we needed something … Read the rest