Wills, appeals and denied inheritance

I have written a will, being of sound mind, I hope, solely to ensure the future care of my two sons if the worst should happen to me. There are not many noughts at the end of my bequests, unlike that of Branislav Kostic, who left £8.3m in his will to the Conservative Party. It was successfully challenged by his only son Zoran, 50, at the High Court, who said his father was “deluded and...
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Education, education, education – £100 million axed from higher education

A guest post by Linda Hawkins, otherwise known as Zenfrog, on the government’s commitment to our future education by slashing £100 million from its funding. She describes how it turned her into an activist: I’m blogging about an issue that is very close to my heart – the catastrophic Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) higher education cuts. I don’t pretend to...
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