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Landlord Liabilities Question

A friend just told me of this situation with his landlord (an actual friend by the way, not me). When he moved into the flat there were no curtains, no window coverings at all. She agreed he could... ...
14:08 Wed 25th Sep 202417 answers, last by barry1010 15:47 Wed 25th Sep 2024
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What's The Best Wood For Open ('Floating') Bookshelves?

I have a U-shaped space to fill with open shelves for books, about 19m of shelving in total. I've got a joiner coming in to put them up but I'm sourcing the wood. I've seen some really nice looking...
14:45 Wed 28th Jun 20235 answers, last by rowanwitch 05:23 Thu 29th Jun 2023
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Lawn To Meadow: Tips Welcome

Blimey, first gardening question here! I'd never imagine I, one of the least green-fingered people who ever lived, would be asking it. The house we recently bought has a large back garden, mostly...
13:44 Mon 26th Jun 202317 answers, last by KUSTARD 07:30 Wed 05th Jul 2023
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Removing Dog 'Fragrance' From House

We're moving into a house the previous owners of which had dogs. It wasn't too 'doggy' to start with, and after lots of cleaning and vacuuming it's further improved but there's still a lingering dog...
13:43 Mon 15th May 20239 answers, last by lankeela 08:51 Tue 04th Jul 2023
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Solicitor Not Accepting Screenshots For House Completion

We are due to complete a house purchase and have provided the solicitor screenshots of the passage of funds from our savings account to our current account to the solicitors account. Because we are...
13:19 Thu 27th Apr 202315 answers, last by Peter Pedant 13:07 Tue 05th Sep 2023
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Savings Interest Payments Tax Question

My partner and I have a joint NS&I account which contains the proceeds of a property sale. It's generating substantial interest payments into our joint current account. How is the tax on these...
13:52 Mon 09th Jan 202317 answers, last by SarraMarines 15:54 Thu 16th Mar 2023
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Intellectual Property Law Question

If a trade union member creates some IP on behalf of the union, authors something/makes posters, imagery etc, as part of their normal member duties - acting as a steward, serving on a union committee,...
13:14 Thu 16th Jun 20221 answer, last by Buenchico 17:46 Thu 16th Jun 2022
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Itunes Playlist Issue

I've made a few playlists on iTunes using tracks imported from cds as MP3 files. No problem with a number of artists until I got to REM. Tracks from 4 specific albums of theirs, while apparently...
08:46 Wed 08th Sep 20218 answers, last by Togo 10:19 Wed 08th Sep 2021
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Capital Gains Tax Question

3 years ago my partner and I moved from London to Scotland as she'd got a job there. Since then, we've been tenants in a rented house. During that period, we retained our London flat mainly as a...
14:07 Tue 29th Sep 20202 answers, last by Backdrifter 14:30 Tue 29th Sep 2020
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Do We Have The Right To Access Our Payroll Information From A Previous Employer?

Depending of course on what retention schedule they follow, or what statutory responsibility they may have. The issue in question is checking the frequency of pension contributions made through the...
12:26 Tue 13th Mar 20185 answers, last by fiction-factory 19:31 Tue 13th Mar 2018
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How Do Companies Prove They Are Based In The Uk?

My employer (a small college) has changed legal status after being acquired by another organisation and now run by a newly set-up subsidiary of this organisation, which means we have to apply for a...
13:26 Fri 09th Feb 20186 answers, last by Backdrifter 10:42 Tue 13th Feb 2018
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Inverness Question

Mrs Backdrifter and I might be moving to Inverness in the next few months. We've spent some time there during holidays over the years, so know it fairly well from that perspective, but that's...
12:19 Sun 27th Aug 20175 answers, last by Backdrifter 13:14 Tue 29th Aug 2017
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Renting Out Our Flat

We are looking into the possibility of moving into rented accommodation, and renting out our flat. Do we have to make any sort of change to our mortgage, such as changing it to a buy-to-let, and...
12:11 Sun 27th Aug 20172 answers, last by Backdrifter 17:17 Mon 28th Aug 2017
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Trying To Identify 1970S Tv Play

It was a play on TV, maybe circa '73/'74. It was about a bunch of public school boys who form a band. They gate crash a school play and it starts from there. They then become famous and slip into the...
13:32 Fri 31st Mar 2017
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Phone Provider Switch Question

Last summer, luddite that I am, I finally entered the realms of smartphone users and became a PAYG Vodafone customer. 7 months on, I am now ready to abandon Vodafone, as they have proved themselves to...
13:45 Sat 18th Mar 201712 answers, last by Backdrifter 14:42 Fri 31st Mar 2017
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Woman In Current Renault Clio Advert

Shallow as it is, I'm wondering what this actress's name is because I'm a bit in love with her. It's the Renault Clio advert currently on TV, with her tracking a man's journey via security cameras....
12:28 Wed 15th Mar 20177 answers, last by Dannyboy88 23:14 Sat 17th Aug 2019
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Who Can Tell Me What This One-Off Tv Drama Was?

This is a really long shot but here goes. I’m trying to recall the title of a slightly surreal one-off TV drama, probably BBC or C4, from around the early 1990s, maybe late 80s. Unfortunately I...
11:14 Tue 07th Mar 20174 answers, last by Backdrifter 10:31 Wed 08th Mar 2017
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Possibly Early 80S Canadian Film About Blind Dates

I’m trying to track this film title down but have no cast members, just a vague recollection of the story and that it’s probably a Canadian film from around the early 1980s. It featured a man who...
11:00 Tue 07th Mar 2017
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Supermarket Question

I'm sure I'm not imagining this, it seems it's no longer possible to buy supermarket own brand multipacks of matches. Well, at least in two of my local branches. I used to get packs of 6 boxes of...
08:49 Wed 07th Sep 201612 answers, last by Backdrifter 15:19 Wed 07th Sep 2016
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Caledonian Sleeper Fares Question

I was planning to travel London to Edinburgh just before xmas using the sleeper, a service I've used many times, from Scotrail days and on into its current operation by Serco. I expect fares to be...
16:00 Sat 07th May 201619 answers, last by Backdrifter 09:07 Wed 18th May 2016

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