Snob Falls on Hard Times

Daily Mail readers are having hissy fits about this article. To sum it up a man was left a house in the nineties and did it up and made £600,000 profit, this enabled him to buy a country mansion, and he built up a portfolio of 84 properties in Barnsely. He and his wife had 4 kids and sent them all to boarding school. He then got a multi million pound loan to buy land in a Romanian property deal. Well suprise, suprise, the deal was not as amazing as he hoped and now the bank is calling in his debts. I won'y spoil the story too much heres the link, but here is just one of his comments to give you a taster as to why readers are so fuming.

"I am worried about losing my place in the world and am deeply worried that my children have lost their place in society."

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2085486/As-family-led-life-privilege-face-5m-debt-said-upper-crust-recession-proof.html#ixzz1jHDymcyE

Daily Mail Money Section - Ask the Experts

This section of the Daily Mail website is tucked away, but is really interesting. There is answers to a whole host of money and personal finance related questions.

Example questions with expert answers include;

How should I take my first ever £1,000 punt on the stock market?
Can you really save money by switching off the lights?
Why was my Friends Life pension fund £13k less than I was expecting?
Is it okay to haggle in shops?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/experts/index.html