Archive for May 2009

New life for old Woolies - Express & Star 16th May 2009

A former Woolworths in Wednesbury town centre is to reopen on June 27 as homeware and electrical store BrightHouse. At least seven new jobs are expected to be created. BrightHouse, which offers weekly repayment deals on household items, is also taking over a Woolworths in Bloxwich.
Dated: Sat 16 May, 2009
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The future’s bright - Credit Today May 2009

One of the hard-won lessons the UK is meant to have drawn from the credit crunch is to resist credit as a way of buying luxury items we can’t afford. But for many in the UK, credit is one way to secure the necessities they can’t afford – and this is where the ‘save to buy’ theory becomes problematic.
Dated: Fri 1 May, 2009
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