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Quoting Napoleon Bonaparte from more than two centuries ago: "China is a sleeping lion. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will shake the world."

One of my daughters has applied to take over a room in an existing shared tenancy for a London flat which will be vacant when one of the 3 existing tenants moves out soon. In order for the take-over to be accepted, and prior to obtaining her references, she was required to pay the outgoing tenant's share of the deposit, equal to 6 weeks rent in advance by direct bank transfer and for this tenant to confirm back to the agency that they had received it. Is this usual practice ? What would happen if the references failed ? This is all being organized by a local bona-fide rental agency with a main street office..

I had waged a fiver on A50 is Revoked in march, placed at Christmas odds at 9/1

https://dailym.ai/2Qamfpa

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-24637628

See the bomb going off !

so perhaps it's not "worth" £250,000 then

+1 I really appreciate the folks who spend ££££ of their own cash paying the VAT, sales tax and eye-watering levels of depreciation on new cars - these folks provide the used car market with it's reasonably priced stock. .. and, as I work in the OE motor components industry, they are paying my salary (which I use to buy a quality used car from an Auction). My current car was over £19,500 list price new in 2004 and I successfully bid £3,600 for it when it was less than 4 years old.

One of the comments.. "So if a 56 year old wants to move home and needs a 50% mortgage to buy their dream home, they won't be able to get an interest only mortgage. Instead they will be forced to either take a crippling repayment mortgage or save large amounts of money in risky investments" It really is that bad these days - are the lenders now wanting the loans paid back !!

I must pass by this house several times a week and I cant recall ever noticing it

Philosophically - I hope Greece win again 1 -0 (Socrates)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qk11 Michael Buerk and guests look at the morality of money. Theft from savers to help the feckless

That would make a plot for a Movie