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Tory Minister calls for house price stability
Home ownership should no longer be seen as a long-term financial investment, Grant Shapps, the Housing Minister, has declared.
- House prices rise but 'slow drift down' forecast
- House Doctor: 'We've exchanged but are having second thoughts. Can we pull out?'
- From free white goods to competitive mortgages: How developers are attracting first-time buyers
- First-time buyers 'need average £29,000 deposit'
- House prices face hard year after 1.6 per cent fall in 2010
- House Doctor: 'We'll be nearly 70 when we pay off our mortgage. What can we do?'
The Secret History Of: The Peugeot Peppermill
It looks like a classic wooden peppermill. You've probably used one without realising. But it is, in fact, a Peugeot peppermill. Yes, it turns out that the French company has been making pepper, salt and coffee mills for longer than it has been making cars. Who knew?
The spy who loved magnolias. Does Peter Smithers' green-fingered guide still cut it?
The inspiration for James Bond was also a keen gardener...
- Weekend Work: Time to secure ricketty boundaries
- Flower show's answer when nature calls
- Deck the halls: The best Christmas decorations are to be found in the garden
- Weekend Work: Time to tend to sweet peas
- Tool story: Heard the one about the couple who set up a company repairing beautiful old trowels and spades?
- Weekend Work: Time to cut the Christmas rose
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