With the warmest February day on record reminding us that long, sunny days are just around the corner, everyone is thinking about getting outdoors and enjoying everything that’s great about the British summer. One of the biggest growth areas in outdoor activities over the past couple of years has been ‘wild’ swimming. As splash-happy kids…
Those thinking about Spring and the changes it may bring are likely to be focused on the countdown towards the Brexit deadline of 29th March, but there are also homeowners, estate agents and solicitors up and down the country who are wondering whether to expect the traditional upsurge in the property market in April and…
An illegal waste wood stockpile on land in Devon has seen the landowner prosecuted and left with the clean-up bill after being held responsible for knowingly permitting the tenants’ activities. The tenants had leased the land for a wood recycling business, but none of the material that arrived on the site ever left, creating a…
Potholes. They’re the bane of every motorist, motorcyclist and cyclist in the land. They’ve even been known to claim the odd pedestrian or two, and it seems that the problem is getting worse. With hundreds of thousands of miles to look after, local councils and the Highways Agency freely admit that they’re stretched to the…
If you’re a property owner, one of the biggest worries is that ‘squatters’ will move into a vacant property and take up residency. If they are not removed quickly then there is the possibility that they can acquire the ownership of a property or a piece of land, simply by staying there for a long…
If there’s one place you’re pretty much guaranteed to spot a bargain, it’s an online auction site. Ebay is now one of the world’s biggest buying and selling portals, with millions of transactions taking place every year. It’s the site where you can find the unusual, the essential, and the downright weird, usually at a…
The sheer number of footpaths that criss-cross this green and pleasant land is a fabulous reason for lovers of the outdoors to strap on their boots and get roaming. But what you need to remember is that those seemingly empty fields and miles and miles of tracks, pathways, bridleways and trails usually go across land…
If there’s one thing that infuriates house sellers (other than being gazumped) it’s a buyer pulling out at the last moment without a good reason. However, the government have stepped in and announced that 2019 will see a trial for reservation agreements – which basically tells conveyancers that buyers who pull out of a transaction…
How in control of your online identity are you? If the case of consumer rights expert Martin Lewis is anything to go by, the answer is ‘not very’. The campaigner discovered that over a thousand adverts on social media giant Facebook had used either his image or quotations to promote their products, including fake endorsements…