The country’s leading professional body for the will writing industry claims the August 9 Panorama programme supported what it has always said: that a will is one of the most important documents a person will ever write and should be carried out by a qualified, person belonging to a regulated body.
However, Brian McMillan, Director General […]
Posted on August 12th, 2010 by Stephen
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The BBC television channel featured Will Writing in its Panorama programme this week. It tried to show problems in the industry, but does it from a biased point of view and as they say themselves at Panorama, it is an entertainment programme so it is ‘edited’ to show itself as such.
They didn’t give the industry […]
Posted on August 11th, 2010 by Stephen
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A legal encounter has been launched by the family of two sisters over the content of a last will and testament that has seen £400,000 go to the ladies’ hairdresser.
The sisters, Ethel Wilson and Mabel Cook had their hair set each week by Jill Fraser for more than 40 years. The widowed sisters had […]
Posted on August 5th, 2010 by Stephen
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A Filipina maid has changed from being a poor person to a multi millionaire.
The person she worked for died recently aged just 66. In her will the lady left her maid a total of around 6 million Singapore dollars, for the maid’s hard work over the previous 20 years. That’s around US$ 4.4 at today’s […]
Posted on August 3rd, 2010 by Stephen
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Following his death last week, aged 61, from cancer, the former world champion snooker player was laid to rest today, in Belfast.
During the service, his 29 year old daughter, Lauren Higgins, read a poem she’d written, as a tribute to her father.
It read:
You never said I’m leaving, you never said goodbye.
You were gone before […]
Posted on August 2nd, 2010 by Stephen
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Inception is the new film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page and Michael Caine. It starts by telling us about the ways that dreams can be implanted into people so they dream what they’re told to dream about. Whether it’s possible or not isn’t the problem; the difficulty is in the legal services they need to […]
Posted on July 26th, 2010 by Stephen
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Did your family throw away most of your inheritance by giving it to the government in speeding fines?
New figures show speed cameras earn money for the Government, but do not reduce casualties on the road. Immediately people will agree with this statement because they believed it all along (Canada withdrew them for this very reason […]
Posted on July 15th, 2010 by Stephen
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Paul the octopus has retired. There’s always the question of when you should retire, providing health doesn’t stop you from making that choice. It’s how you’ve planned for your time in retirement that really dictates when you can retire.
Paul has been extremely lucky or in some people’s eyes, skillful, recently. He managed to guess the […]
Posted on July 13th, 2010 by Stephen
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Brits now have the opportunity to go online to a special government website and suggest which laws should be changed and which red tape should be finished.
There’s no doubt that the previous government had gone new law ‘crazy’ and introduced ‘red tape’ burdens on both individuals and family. They hid behind the threat or terrorism […]
Posted on July 8th, 2010 by Stephen
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This would be a welcoming sign among many families, but it’s also an unwelcome indication among many other families. It all depends upon how the children get on with the new step-mother.
Leo Abse died in 2008, aged 91. The first point is that he’s regarded as being of sound mind when he updated his will […]
Posted on June 28th, 2010 by Stephen
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