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As a retired structural engineer, I know that modern buildings are designed by highly qualified architects and engineers, working within a framework of planning law and building control regulations. These professionals pay a substantial amount for professional indemnity insurance to cover the rare cases of failure through design error. In turn, it is expected that …
The billionaire investor Warren Buffett has warned of inflation hitting the US economy amid a “red hot” recovery from the worst of the coronavirus pandemic. Buffett said his portfolio companies were “seeing very substantial inflation” in a range of sectors amid shortages of raw materials and high savings among those who kept jobs but were …
When Penelope Ormerod appealed to the Observer for help, she wrote: “I am close to despair.” She had applied for probate on her late aunt’s estate in September. Nearly seven months later, she was still waiting. The application had been sent from her local register office in Oxford to Manchester and was never seen again, …
The text message from HMRC about a Covid-19 refund, the email about a mysterious DHL parcel that couldn’t be delivered, the breathless Facebook post from Martin Lewis, urging you to invest in bitcoin – scams are a daily hazard of modern life. Yet Lewis, the consumer champion who sued Facebook to force them to remove …
Parents earning more than £50,000 a year could gain thousands of pounds in child benefit by redirecting some of their earnings into a pension, figures issued this week show. Some who are fortunate enough to be able to stash hundreds of pounds away each month could end up being £120,000 better off in retirement as …