5 Lessons we learned from their celebrity custody battles – All4Women

Celebrity splits are common in Celebville but things often turn ugly when children are involved From fighting over child support to arguing over visitation rights, custody battles can turn into a nightmare. There is always a lesson to be learned, not only for the families involved, but also for onlookers who might be going through …

How the crisis in UK retailing is reshaping employment

Almost 60,000 retail jobs were lost in the UK over the past year, prompting calls from industry bodies for more action to help high streets, despite evidence that many of the people affected found alternative employment.  Retail employment is difficult to measure accurately because it is highly seasonal, but the British Retail Consortium, the retail …

UK’s biggest EuroMillions winners who scooped £161million divorce after 38 years – Mirror Onli…

The UK’s biggest ever lottery winners have divorced eight years after bagging a £161 million jackpot. EuroMillions winners Colin and Christine Weir were granted a quickie divorce by a judge at the Court of Session in Edinburgh just days after they put their £3million former home on the market. They had reportedly been living in …

Careful now, UK court ruling says email signature blocks can sign binding contracts – The Register

Your work email signature block can be used to form a binding and legal contract, the Manchester County Court has ruled – costing an unfortunate land seller £25,000 from her hoped-for sale price. In a 2016 property dispute over a boat jetty and linked plot of land by Lake Windermere, one side’s solicitor sent a …

Coping Support Is Needed for Children of Divorce, Particularly in High-Conflict Situations

  A study of children of divorce has found that differences in children’s coping styles during the first three years after the divorce predict the degree to which they experience mood/anxiety problems (“internalising”) and behaviour problems such as delinquency (“externalising”) when these are measured six years later. On this basis, the researchers recommend that children …

Couple discover they can’t remarry as their divorce was never actually successful – Daily Mail

A couple who rekindled their romance after a decade a part discovered they couldn’t remarry because their divorce was never completed. Cindy Cassin, 57, from Erdington, Birmingham, restarted her relationship with former partner, Dave, 62, after nine years apart in 2015. The pair had applied for a divorce in 2006, but it wasn’t until they …

Sir Philip Green's Miss Selfridge slumps to £17.5m loss as sales plummet

Sir Philip Green’s Miss Selfridge slumps to £17.5m loss as sales plummet Sales fell by more than 15% to £102m in the year to September 2018 The firm took a £12.1m hit to get out of leases on loss-making stores  By City & Finance Reporter for the Daily Mail Published: 22:00, 29 September 2019 | Updated: …

Meet the 23 fintech startups ready to scale up

London startups dominate the list of 23 fintechs that have joined government-backed Tech Nation’s 2019 growth programme. Sixty per cent of the new cohort of financial technology firms hail from the capital, while 40 per cent boast at least one female co-founder, Tech Nation revealed today. Read more: Fintech is all the rage, but is …