MacNairs + Wilson

A woman has lost her legal bid in the French courts to overturn the will of her late husband, reports the Telegraph.

The UK’s Acceptance In Lieu scheme has helped to secure a wide number of truly exceptional works of art into public collections in the last year, according to the Arts Council’s Annual Report.

House buyers wishing to live in one of the UK’s National Parks will need to pay higher than average prices to secure such a location, new research has revealed.

The number of mortgages granted to first-time buyers in the third quarter of this year is at its highest level since 2007, according to new figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML). 

On the 10^th of February 2011, three debates were held at the Oxford Union, Cambridge Union, and in the House of Lords. These debates were all entitled “This house believes the institution of marriage is out of date” and in all three places the motion was defeated, with a clear majority unable to contemplate the possibility of marriage being out of date. Five years on, would they come to the same conclusion? We take a bird’s eye view of families today and attempt to come to a conclusion.