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Opinion: Uncomfortable home truths about being retirement ready

Blacktower Financial Management Group report showing maps of areas that have saved most for retirement

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Peter Sharkey

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Financial expert Peter Sharkey takes a look at the ‘retirement ready’ league table and confronts some uncomfortable home truths.
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Opinion: Shock tactics needed for retirement saving

Peter Sharkey

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Lisbon, Portugal old town cityscape at dusk

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Opinion: Is Portugal the best place to retire to?

Peter Sharkey

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There With You This Winter

What to do if your energy supplier goes bust

Jon King

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Unrecognizable male reading email on laptop while relaxing on beach

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Opinion: Are stock markets looking frothy?

Peter Sharkey

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Aklu Miah

Retail

Romford Debenhams: New shopping mall could open before Christmas

Michael Cox

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The Liberty Shopping Centre. Photo: Google Maps

Planning and Development

New salon and spa planned for Romford shopping centre

Michael Cox

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Senior active couple running, walking and talking in the park. Healthy lifestyle

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Personal finance: What price do you put on contentment?

Peter Sharkey

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Portrait of senior tourist couple in town using a map. Mature man and woman using map while sightsee

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Opinion: More people expected to choose retirement after pandemic

Peter Sharkey

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Young family couple talking with property real estate agent about home loan contract purchase agreem

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Could equity release solve the problem of interest-only mortgages?

Peter Sharkey

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Man playing piano

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Opinion: How to save 'little and often'

Charles Bliss

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Indoor shot of young European Caucasian girl looking at financial documents at home with deeply bore

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Opinion: Research is important to your investment portfolio

Peter Sharkey

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An adult hipster son with glasses and senior father indoors at home, hugging.

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Opinion: Simple planning could help save money on Inheritance Tax

Peter Sharkey

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Aged couple signing and filling documents at home

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Opinion: Is the pension ‘triple lock’ under threat?

Peter Sharkey

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Unclaimed estates in Havering

Personal Finance | Special Report

Time running out for long-lost relatives to claim Havering fortunes

Charles Thomson

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Santander

Santander 'to close' Harold Hill and Dagenham branches

William Mata

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Louisa Ingleton puts out a menu for a free breakfast for children at the Rumour Cafe in Sheerness Ke

Havering’s small businesses can claim licence fee refund

Chantelle Billson

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Regional media company Archant has a range of opportunities across the country

Archant announces major recruitment drive

Archant reporters

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Craft Arts

Romford's Crafty Arts shop celebrates 30th anniversary

Sally Patterson

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Curator Kate Sumnall unveils rare Bronze Age terret ring used to prevent the reins from tangling on horse-drawn carts 

Bronze Age hoard to go on show after 3,000 years and an extra year's delay

Mike Brooke

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Peter Barrett

New Harrow Lodge Leisure Centre set to open

Adriana Elgueta

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Romford's Funktion will not be returning after the pandemic.

'Lose-lose situation': Romford's Funktion nightclub to close permanently

Adriana Elgueta

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Crow Metals in Romford has faced repeated Environment Agency inspections

Investigations | Special Report

Romford scrap yard faces action over 'unacceptable' noise

Archant Investigations

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A new Lidl could be coming to 5 Rainham Road, Rainham.

Consumer

Lidl to submit a planning application for a Rainham store

Adriana Elgueta

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Wesley Mendy Prestige Events

Coronavirus

Events firm refused Covid-19 help, despite rules banning public gatherings

Charles Thomson

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Barry Rose, manager of The Emporium, Brentwood.

Brentwood multi-retailer forced to close as it's 'not an essential store'

Adriana Elgueta

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Structural engineer and architect working with blueprints discuss at the outdoors construction site.

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Plan for Jobs scheme is helping economy bounce back

Sophie Stainthorpe

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Scallywags Nursery in Suttons Lane, Hornchurch. Picture: Scallywags Hornchurch

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Havering nurseries warn they could go out of business without more support

Victoria Munro, Local Democracy Reporting Service

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Shipping containers are unloaded from a cargo ship at the Port of Felixstowe in Suffolk

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Why your business must act now to continue trading with Europe

Sophie Stainthorpe

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Why not take part in one of Archant's business webinars?

Local businesses invited to series of digital marketing webinars

Matt Adams

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