Author: Danielle

As autumn colours deepen and the evenings shorten, attention in Westminster, and across the rest of the country, is being turned towards the Chancellor’s forthcoming Autumn Budget. After a stretch of comparative economic calm, though with inflation still lingering as a worry and public services in need of funding, this year’s statement looks set to be a delicate balancing act. The famous red briefcase will not be opened for a few weeks yet, but speculation is already being churned out at full tilt. Decisions taken at the dispatch box, whether on property taxation or on personal allowances, will be felt…

Studio expertise is to be handed over and international production cooperation reinforced through an agreement formalised at MIPCOM Cannes. The first phase of Shams Production Hub, centred on five purpose-built sound stages, has a scheduled start of Q1 2027. CANNES, France: Backing for the development of Shams Production Hub in Sharjah, UAE now comes from a strategic partnership that Sharjah Media City (Shams), a leading UAE freezone authority, formalised at MIPCOM Cannes alongside Origo Studios, counted among Hungary’s leading film studio complexes. A three-phase training and knowledge-transfer programme will be provided by Origo Studios under the terms of the deal,…

Sports prop firms are a newer business model that brings the familiar prop firm concept into the sports space. If you are considering starting one, you can create challenge-based programs where users join a program, follow specific rules, and work toward defined performance goals. You can build different types of sports challenges around an audience interested in sports, statistics, and competition. Setting up the business also means choosing the right technology, creating program rules, handling payments, managing risk, and running the day-to-day operation. Keep reading to learn how sports prop firms work, how they can generate revenue, and what you…

MetaTrader 5 is a familiar choice for traders who use custom indicators, Expert Advisors, detailed charting, and different order types. If you already trade on MT5, joining a prop firm that supports the platform means you can continue working with tools and features you already understand. If you’re looking for a prop firm that offers MT5, compare your options. Each firm has its own evaluation models, drawdown rules, profit targets, payout terms, and trading restrictions.  The prop firms in this list are not presented in any particular order, and the list is not intended to rank one company above another. …

Strain on the finances can make even ordinary decisions about what to buy feel overwhelming. When a budget is stretched thin, an unexpected buy can look like something demanding immediate attention, leaving the household with little room to stop and think the choice through sensibly. For some homes the result is a cycle: hurried buys, growing reliance on credit, and increasing difficulty keeping pace with the sums due. Each of these raises the chance that the household ends up in financial distress. Halting panic spending seldom calls for dismantling the whole of a household’s money setup. Carving out time to…

Alto has highlighted the UK’s top ten fastest rising picture postcard villages and towns – where values have soared over the last decade. Tourism hotspot Fowey in Cornwall tops the list, bucking the overall downturn to shoot up by 67% in the last ten years – average prices rising from £350,000 to £585,000. Alto software is connected to more than 6,000 estate agents across the UK and it tracks thousands of sales going back decades. Alto CEO Riccardo Iannucci-Dawson said: “Even in a depressed property market you will find bubbles which out perform other areas because they are gorgeous places…

You just sold your old iPhone on Facebook Marketplace. You hit “Erase All Content and Settings,” watched the little progress bar fill up, and handed it over for a crisp stack of cash. You feel good. Your data is safe, right? Maybe. But if the person who bought it knows their way around data recovery software, they might just be looking at your old WhatsApp chats, your cached banking logins, or that embarrassing photo you deleted three years ago but never actually overwrote. We all trust the native Apple reset button way too much. It’s a great tool for fixing…

Across the past couple of years, pensions have claimed a strikingly big slice of the money headlines. Tax reform, pre-Budget rumour and the forthcoming inheritance tax regime have, between them, prompted savers to look hard at money which, for many, had merely sat there undisturbed. The upshot, apparently, is a change in behaviour. Financial Conduct Authority data, relayed by the Financial Times, record £22 billion of tax-free pension withdrawals in 2025-26. In 2023-24 the comparable total stood at £11.2 billion, so across those two years almost £40 billion has come out free of tax. Those sums could be explained in…

Istanbul, Türkiye – For its 31st edition, Eurasia Packaging Istanbul, counted among the packaging sector’s foremost commercial meeting grounds throughout the Eurasian region, comes back to Tüyap Fair and Congress Center on 13 to 16 October 2026. Reed Tüyap Fairs Inc. runs the show jointly with the Turkish Packaging Manufacturers Association (ASD) plus further sector bodies, with backing from the Republic of Türkiye Ministry of Trade, and the gathering will assemble technology suppliers, packaging producers, investors, purchasers and professionals drawn from both Türkiye and markets abroad. Packaging goods, manufacturing technologies, processing answers, printing and converting will all fall within the…