Alternative gothic clothing

Alternative X is all about the “alternative” experience in terms of music, attitude, and clothing. At the Alternative X gothic website shop, you can browse the best in men’s and women’s alternative fashion, and be assured of competitive prices for quality goods – and a safe online shopping environment. Free delivery is an added bonus. Alternative X’s range of gothic clothing is a substantial one, with quality pieces picked out by our buyers (who, incidentally, are keen nightclub goers themselves). Whether you want an underbust or overbust corset, or a simple vest or shirt, there’s plenty of gothic clothing to like here. Women’s gothic tops are an Alternative X speciality, with a range of lace and netted tops, boleros, velvet blouses/basques, or long sleeved and short sleeved T-shirts. The latter include dragon, angel and fairy themed gothic tops. Alternative X promises free delivery to anywhere in the UK, so whatever the price displayed on the website, that’s the price you’ll pay for the item in question. There are no hidden shocks or surprises. More: http://www.cee.org.uk/clothing/

LED lighting

LED-Lights.co.uk is the stockist of a massive range of LED bulbs, and serves a diverse set of customer needs, from basic bulbs to colour changing bulbs, LED tubes and so forth. The LED bulbs on sale at LED-Lights.co.uk are top quality, competitively priced, and they’re used in hotels, and sold by select retailers such as John Lewis. When it comes to colour-change LED bulbs, one of the most popular in LED-lights.co.uk’s colour changing LEDs range is the Auraglow Remote Control Colour Changing LED Light Bulb. This inexpensive energy saving bulb comes with a small remote that lets you switch between a rainbow of colours, and it’s possible to select fading or strobing modes. LEDs-lights.co.uk also provides a range of LED tube lights, from 600mm to 1500mm in length, with some impressive quantity discounts for bulk buyers (buying 50 or more LED tubes gains you a £3.50 discount off each light). LEDs-lights.co.uk is also a trusted supplier of LED bulbs to businesses, which when given a large organisation’s lighting bills, can mean massive savings with LEDs-lights.co.uk’s bargain prices – and bulk buying discounts. More: http://www.savethemoorings.org.uk/Lights.htm

Telephones online

PMC Telecom is a telecom solution specialist which offers a vast range of corded and cordless phones, fax machines, headsets, answering machines and multi-line phone systems. PMC prides itself on its superb customer service, and deals directly with major telecoms distributors to ensure competitive prices on its quality merchandise. PMC Telecom offers an expansive range of cordless phones, including cordless phone and headset packages, and DECT phone repeaters (range expanders). And these excellent products are offered at very competitive prices. PMC also boasts a range from the world’s leading designer of lightweight communications headsets, Plantronics, including bluetooth headsets such as the Plantronics Savi Office W730 blutooth headset with a range of up to 120 metres. Should you wish to purchase a telephone and headset bundle, PMC also sell these. Headsets which are noise cancelling, or non-noise cancelling can be selected, and there’s a great range of money savers here. More: http://www.culturenorthwest.org.uk/?page_id=13

Injury Lawyers

The Injury Lawyers is a leading firm of legal experts who can pursue compensation on behalf of those who have suffered whiplash, work injuries, or any type of accident. The company operates on a no-win, no-fee basis, and offers free online advice from qualified operators on its website The Injury Claims Lawyers. The Injury Lawyers handle a vast range of personal injury claims – pretty much everything under the sun, in fact. So whether you’ve been involved in a road traffic accident, or a slip on a wet supermarket floor resulting in an injury, The Injury Lawyers will be on your side in the battle to get compensation for personal injury claims. Those who have had an accident at work could be entitled to compensation if their employee has been negligent or failed to observe health and safety best practice. The Injury Lawyers can swiftly evaluate any potential case for an injury at work, and pursue it with full force if there are grounds for compensation. No-win, no-fee really means what it says when it comes to The Injury Lawyers: If they don’t win, the client pays nothing – but it isn’t just this. The Injury Lawyers also don’t take money from the client if they do win, instead recovering their fees from the other party/insurer. More: http://www.the-wallace-collection.org.uk/claims.htm

Incahoot offers mobile and broadband deals

Incahoot is a website with one primary aim: To save you money. It’s a group buying organisation, meaning that Incahoot users get together and use their group buying power to leverage the best deals on mobile phones, broadband, landline phones, insurance, and energy tariffs. You could save over £1,000 with group buying energy deals coupled with mobile and broadband savings.

If you’re looking for a good deal on a mobile phone, then look no further than Incahoot. The site boasts a range of mobile phone contract offers, including some stand-out offers on iPhones, the Samsung Galaxy S3, and BlackBerry Curve 9320 (many with cashback or £100 bill credit). Check out Incahoot's mobile phone offers.

Incahoot also specialises in ferreting out the best home broadband deals. Some of the cheapest deals in the UK are put up on the website, such as half price broadband for a full year with Plusnet. For more information, check out the company's cheap broadband plans.

Money can also be saved in the world of insurance with Incahoot – but the service also takes into account results, too. In other words, these aren’t just the lowest charging insurance firms available, but the trustworthy ones too, so you can breathe easier if you do have to make a claim. Read more about Incahoot's insurance services. More: http://www.sportscouncil-ni.org.uk/Incahoot.htm

Argos and Homebase see profits fall

The Home Retail Group has observed a fall in its 12-monthly profit of just beneath 10%. The group who own Argos and Homebase have submitted full year profits of £265.2m which has been envisioned as the group had posted a profit warning last month, the firm reports revenue had fallen 2.8% to £5.85bn along with the cash gross margin fell 4% to £2.18bn. During the past year they saw a profit of £292.9m even so the DIY marketplace that Homebase competes in has been reducing.

A significant proportion of the Property Retail Group’s business is transferring to internet retail, reaching practically 50 % of all sales within the case of Argos. Argos is all so establishing a shopping channel to contend within the home buyer marketplace.

The group also have cut the costs of distribution and operation by 3%. Share costs remain around the 200p mark with a rise of 5% in early trading.

Home Retail Group chairman Oliver Stocken said:

"Economic uncertainty as well as a low level of consumer confidence continue to adversely impact customer spending patterns, despite these challenges, the group continues to construct on its strategic advantages to guarantee that it will be well-positioned for the economic recovery over the longer term."

Banks still losing money, crisis not over yet

Reminder: the financial crisis is anything but over. This is underlined by the fact the Royal Bank of Scotland posted a £1.1 billion loss.

While the loss is particularly linked to Ulster Bank, which is a RBS subsidiary and has guaranteed 100% mortgages in the Irish Republic, it demonstrates how the European banking system is still in crisis.

We still have issues of denial about the extent of problems in the Irish Republic, not least triggered by the European bond crisis which affected Ireland. And there are continued policy fights within the European Central Bank as to whether existing securities are enough, or whether a sea-change in fiscal policy is required which would see the ECB buying up European sovereign bonds.

In the meantime, everyone else seems to have forgotten that we haven't yet faced down the threat of a sovereign bond crisis in Europe. While there is a degree of optimism in the markets at present, it's worth noting that Portugal may yet require a bail-out, and if that happens then Spain is almost certainly next as the sovereign bond crisis slowly but surely unfolds.

And here's the elephant in the room - if UK property begins to fall in price as all trend indicators suggest they must, then you can expect a new round of financial problems to adversely impact Britain's banks, and our economy with it.

And then, of course, there are public sector cuts looming.

The financial crisis is anything but over yet.