Your council tax bill for 2010/2011 will be coming through the door any day now, but you might be pleasantly surprised - the average cost is set to increase by the lowest percentage since this tax was introduced in 1993.
Give us a break
Guilt-free jobs
For some people the battle against climate change is all in a day’s work
The good life
Holly Radford, 31, gave up her successful TV career in London to work as an assistant farm hand on an eco farm in Cornwall
Looking up
Unemployment has fallen slightly but the number of people claiming Jobseekers Allowance is on the rise. Total unemployment stood at 2.46 million for the three months to December, down 3,000 on the figure for the previous three months.
Lost in space
Maps could come back into vogue again as the sun is set to go into a period of activity, which could wreak havoc with sat nav systems.
The sun is due a ‘solar maximum’ which could generate sat nav errors. Researchers have only recently discovered that the signals beamed down from satellites orbiting the earth are actually very weak and are also sensitive to the activity on the sun.
The issues are big
at home’s very own business expert, James Caan has been appointed as chairman of The Big Issue magazine, which helps homeless people.
The Dragons’ Den panellist and entrepreneur has been signed up to help bring the magazine into the digital age and stimulate corporate giving.
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