Liftshare’s Christmas charity
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and it is also the time of charity and giving. This festive season, Liftshare will be supporting a local charity: Your Own Place. Your Own Place was established by Rebecca White in 2013. The charity was set-up to help find innovative and creative solutions to preventing homelessness and a life…
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“Driving home for Christmas, I can’t wait to see those faces”. It’s official. It’s Monday 3rd of December and Christmas has begun at Liftshare HQ (although, we admit, the Christmas lights have been hung since the local Christmas lights were switched on in November, complete with Laura’s rendition of ‘Silent Night’).
And with Christmas, comes the never-ending expenditure list…
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The looming threat of strike action and ongoing disruption looms over most of the country as Unions and rail franchises continue to butt heads over a range of issues. This, combined with the hectic festive period and extensive maintenance work taking place on rail lines in London (to make way for the Crossrail project), many will find it difficult…
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Rail passengers have been warned by the boss of Network Rail of severe disruption to travel over the Christmas period, with record levels of maintenance and work taking place for the third year running.
Preparations to complete both the Crossrail and Thameslink projects form part of the biggest ever programme of work undertaken by Network Rail. It will see Paddington,…
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We continue our look at some of the UK’s finest Christmas markets with a look at Nottingham. The market and winter wonder attractions run from Thursday 20th November to Sunday 4th January, so there’s plenty of time to head there and drink in the festive atmosphere.
Like all of the Christmas events we’ve feature on the blog, this is another perfect…
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Christmas is a magical time of year where communities come together in the name of sharing and make their local area a truly wonderful place to be. London is no different thanks to this year’s Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park, which kicks off our run-down of the UK’s best festive markets and attractions.
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Christmas is a magical time of year where communities come together in the name of sharing and make their local area a truly wonderful place to be. The city of Manchester is no different, as its festive hubs enjoyed over 1.8 million visitors in 2013, which amounts to a lot of mulled wine, bratwurst and pretzels, but also a lot of expensive…
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It’s no secret that Christmas is an expensive time of year. You’ll probably be too scared to look at your bank balance after all of the gift-buying and food shopping is done, but if you play it smart and tap into the sharing economy there are many ways to avoid being broke over the festive season.
Liftshare is
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Car Tetris is a term often used when all of your shopping won’t fit in the car and you have to move things about to make space. You might have played this most dastardly of games before when moving home and that old IKEA side-table you wish you had thrown out years ago refuses to slot neatly into the…
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Towards the end of the year saving becomes ever-more urgent as the demands on our personal finances increase significantly in December. And Christmas is only 10 weekends away!
So, as petrol prices continue to rise to record highs and Christmas creeps around the corner, the number of people signing up to the UK’s leading…
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Did you know a Christmas turkey can produce fuel?
Well, the guts and bone can anyway!
“Thermal depolymerization (TDP) is a depolymerization process using hydrous pyrolysis for the reduction of complex organic materials into oil.”
Which in English basically means wasted turkey parts, such as guts and bone, can be broken down under very high heat and pressure and as a result…
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Christmas shopping in-store has its fair share of deterrents; traffic to get to high streets and shopping centers, checkout queues, sharp elbows, cold weather and – thanks to new government guidelines reported this week – the increasing cost of parking!
But nothing is ever black or white…
Take the new government guidelines to raise parking prices for instance; presented with an…
It’s likely we’re going to get another harsh winter and, like the boy scouts, it’s always good to be prepared!
If you need to travel in severe weather there are some simple steps that can reduce the risk of being caught out:
• Be informed – just a few minutes checking the weather forecast and traffic reports for your journey could make all…
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