Sent in by Paddy Carter:
Evidence emerged today that last
month’s cut in the cost of borrowing is already beginning to have an
effect on consumer confidence, when Halifax, the mortgage lender,
claimed that house prices rose in August at four times the rate of the
previous month.
That’s fair enough. But the sub who wrote the headline? Slapped wrist I think:
House prices rise fourfold says Halifax
Or do we impale him on his blue pencil?
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