Kenneth Elliott + Rowe Solicitors

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has unveiled a new plan to help first time buyers by allowing them to use their parents' and grandparents' pension funds to help raise deposits.

A major building company has been fined by Westminster Magistrates’ Court after a woman waiting for a bus was struck by a piece of machinery being lifted to the fifth floor of a nearby office block.

More and more elderly couples are filing for divorce in the UK, new figures have revealed.

Data published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows that despite falling rates of separation across the UK, couples over 60 are showing a spike in divorce cases over recent years.

A motion by a former hairdressing MP to force all salons to register with a professional body has been blocked in the commons.  Tory MP David Morris, who ran salons for 28 years before becoming an MP, hoped his bill would prevent serious injury and even death caused by improper use of chemicals by the industry.

The Bribery Act, the single biggest change in UK legislation for decades, has rightly forced companies to reassess their conduct, but officials have urged businesses not to over-react when it comes to giving at Christmas this year.