Only with the boost of North Sea oil, though. Any fool could do a lot with North Sea oil money. No sovereign wealth fund, either. Compare and contrast: Norway. (View Post)

I'd been prepared for the issue by the experiences of a friend whose parents died younger than mine. But we did get a pro valuer in - partly to get the cast iron valuation for IHT (not that it was ne… (View Post)

TBF the fire cert is actually a label - not a piece of paperwork. But it is an issue. Another problem with upholstery is whether the owners were smokers. Impossible to get the smell out. (View Post)

'The author's best-selling biographies have a habit of changing the reputation of famous figures, such as establishing the Nazi intrigues around the Duke of Windsor, the former Edward VIII. Although … (View Post)

Got done for it, too (though not in the way one might now imagine). But TBF he started from Galloway. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-55280466 "A man who crossed the Irish Se… (View Post)