Research From Legal & General Shows up to Three Quarters of Over 50’s Would use Their Extra ISA Savings Alowance

October 1st, 2009 TADWORTH, England - Based on a targeted ISA research study(1) Legal & General, the UK's second largest stocks and shares ISA provider (see note to editors 3), estimates around one million investors age 50 and over will top up under the new ISA rules. Based on these figures we estimate the realistic value of the top up stocks and shares ISA market created by the increase in allowances for the over 50(2) age group, is GBP2.85 billion in the 2009/2010 tax year.

September 15th, 2009 LONDON - - Parents Believe 'Celebrity' Role Models Have Greatest Influence on Children When it Comes to Eating Their Greens Every parent knows that getting children to eat vegetables can sometimes be challenging; however, new research suggests parents today are more relaxed with their children when it comes to insisting how they eat their greens. With 65%* of UK kids turning up their noses at vegetables because of their taste, texture or smell, parents today have admitted to employing a wide range of tactics to encourage them to eat up.

September 10th, 2009 PARIS - - Turn Your iPhone into an Evidence Creation Machine! Shoot&Proof(TM) enables you to take certified photos which constitute legally valid evidence (as shown by audits and cases won). When doing a rental inventory, after a car accident or a water damage, to prove the time of delivery and condition of a package, to record defects in work done by a contractor, or to strengthen your insurance case ...

August 2nd, 2009 LONDON - - Every Time you top up, We'll Give you 10% Back - For Example, top up GBP10 and we'll put an Extra Pound in to Your Vodafone Bonus Bank From 29th July, Vodafone UK pay as you go customers will be rewarded for their loyalty with Vodafone Bonus Bank. Every time a customer tops up, we'll give 10% back.

July 6th, 2009 ST HELIER, Jersey - - Clients Benefiting From Major Cost Savings in Document Review ST HELIER, Jersey, July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- CPA Global, one of the world's leading providers of outsourced legal support services, and electronic discovery industry leader Applied Discovery Inc. (a division of LexisNexis), announced today that they have passed a major milestone since forming a strategic alliance in 2008, having jointly processed and reviewed over 50 million pages of evidence.

June 17th, 2009 LONDON - Major Cost Savings Projected From New Approach to Legal Work Rio Tinto today announced that it has entered into a legal services outsourcing agreement with CPA Global that is projected to save Rio Tinto up to 20% annually in legal costs. Under the agreement, CPA Global, one of the world's leading providers of outsourced legal support services, are providing a team of lawyers in India to support Rio Tinto's in-house legal function on a global basis.

April 21st, 2009 LONDON - David White, Chief Executive, The Children's Mutual (www.thechildrensmutual.co.uk) welcomed today's Budget announcement, "Children who receive disability living allowance in a tax year will qualify for additional annual payments of GBP100 or GBP200 into their Child Trust Funds. This means that next year approximately 100,000 children will benefit from the additional annual payments of which an estimated 40,000 will qualify for the higher GBP200 allowance.

March 25th, 2009 LONDON - Virgin Trains will be providing nearly 3,000 extra seats for Manchester United and Everton fans travelling to and from London for the FA Cup Semi-Final. The company will be running six extra trains on Sunday 19 April.

March 23rd, 2009 LONDON - A new survey of consumer trends reveals that people are increasingly looking to enjoy themselves at home as the recession continues to bite. And 45% have declared "We just want to have fun".

March 10th, 2009 MOSCOW - published an article by Vladislav Malkevich, Director General of Expocentre (Moscow). The theme of the article: the impact of the world financial crisis in its broad economic context on exhibition activities in Russia.

May 29th, 2009 Renault, Nissan seek euro1.5 billion in new synergiesPARIS — The head of the alliance between Renault SA and Nissan Motor Co. said Friday he wants to squeeze out an extra euro1.5 billion ($2.08 billion) in cost savings this year to get the French and Japanese automakers through the economic crisis.

September 17th, 2009 Professors, researchers sought investment adviceDES MOINES, Iowa — A recent survey of retirement account investors at colleges and universities shows even professors and researchers sought out investment advice as the stock market downturn began draining retirement accounts. The TIAA-CREF Institute surveyed 1,002 higher education employees between the ages of 50 and 70 during April and May.

January 25th, 2009 LONDON - US pop superstar Britney Spears is doing a lot of research as she wants to make her upcoming performance at London's O2 arena memorable. According to thesun.co.uk, Spears spent more than a week in London and has been reviewing video footage of shows there.

June 9th, 2009 Times Co.: 23 percent cut means no Globe closureBOSTON — The Boston Globe's parent company, The New York Times Co., says it won't close the 137-year-old newspaper, after identifying $20 million in annual savings. The Times said Tuesday it would now focus "on executing the Globe's turnaround plan." On Monday, it imposed a 23 percent pay cut on members of its largest labor union, the Boston Newspaper Guild.

August 17th, 2009 TOKYO - Japan's economy grew 3.7 percent in the second quarter, the first positive increase in five quarters, according to preliminary estimates released Monday by the Japanese government. The figure represented a huge swing upward from the first quarter, when the gross domestic product (GDP) fell by an annualized 11.7 percent, and the quarter before that, which saw a dive of 13.1 percent.

September 9th, 2009 Hot Springs park to lead off new line of quartersHOT SPRINGS, Ark. — Hot Springs National Park will be the first site featured in a line of "America the Beautiful" quarters starting next year that will feature a national park from each state and U.S.

April 30th, 2009 Sycamore Networks to cut 30 percent of work forceCHELMSFORD, Mass. — Sycamore Networks Inc.

July 9th, 2009 LONDON - For years, Britain's biggest UFO mystery had been kept under wraps, but now an Air Force official has admitted that an "extra-terrestrial" craft did visit the air base at Rendlesham Forest in 1980. Former Deputy Base Commander Col Charles Halt claimed that even though the incident was later covered up, "extra-terrestrials" had been the cause of the close encounter in Suffolk.

September 9th, 2009 Geithner pushes changes to college savings plansWASHINGTON — The Obama administration wants states to make changes to college savings plans that it hopes will expand their use by middle class families. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the Section 529 savings plans can help Americans to save for college because of the tax savings they offer.

April 21st, 2009 Kiwi quandary: New Zealand's islands need namesWELLINGTON, New Zealand — Experts searching for alternative Maori names for New Zealand's two main islands were startled to find that their commonly used English names — North Island and South Island — were never made legal, officials said Tuesday. To repair the 200-year-old oversight, the country's Geographic Board, which assigns and approves names for all New Zealand places, said it would take steps to legally name the two South Pacific islands that make up more than 95 percent of the country's land mass.