Ensure you’re insured

Award winning journalist Stephanie Hawthorne offers words of warning. MAKING sure your home is covered in the event of frozen or burst pipes, floods or storms may not be at the forefront of your mind

You don’t have to be loaded to get into boating as Glen Stanford discovered after a chance encounter with a boat-owning colleague

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None of us plans to be caught in a gale, but if it happens then both the boat and the crew must cope. Jake Kavanagh speaks to Jester Challenge skippers and asks how they get ready for stormy weather

After some pretty tumultuous years in the insurance industry, things seem to have calmed down. That’s not to say the many and various problems have been fixed, though; just that most of them don’t see

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