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The use of trusts in the UK is growing as they play an increasingly important role in estate and succession planning, ...

Thousands of widows in western Kenya face losing their land after their husbands die. In certain ethnic groups, widows are ...

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Ship tracking and satellite imagery shows Skipper, the first oil tanker seized by the US near Venezuela, is now off the coast of Texas. The firm behind an AI-powered app that moni ...

U-turn lifts limit from £1m to £2.5m after protests and warnings that family farms were at risk Ministers will increase the threshold for taxing inherited farmland from £1m to £2.5m after months of ...

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