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Radio 2's Jeremy Vine Show
Andrew Skipwith, founder of Rated People, speaks to Jeremy Vine about the fall from grace of the traditional phonebooks.
Click here to listen to the audio broadcast. (Requires a media player that support an MP3 audio file).
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The Daily Telegraph (Front Page)
Million trees 'wasted on phone books'
The equivalent of one million trees are destroyed every year to make 44 million telephone books that are never opened, it was claimed yesterday. Two thirds of householders do not even remove the plastic from the 70 million books delivered annually, online traders said. read full article
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The Guardian
Office Hours
Fifty two percent of us admit to designing our home improvements from our desks, and according to Rated People we each spend eight and a half days a year searching the internet for ways to add value to our properties. read full article
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| 15th November 07 |
The Guardian |
Steve Payle, the defender of consumer rights, sides with Rated People
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| 15th November 07 |
ComputerActive.co.uk |
ComputerActive.co.uk sets out the difference between the Yellow Pages and Rated People
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| 3rd November 07 |
Western Mail |
One Man, One Woman go head to head in the Western Mail to test the results of the RatedPeople.com
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| 29th October 07 |
The Guardian |
Fans of assembling flat pack furniture best be aware. A survey by RatedPeople.com shows they may well be heading for a fall!
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| 5th October 07 |
TimesOnline |
Home on the web. A marked rise in the use of the internet for home security and reliable tradesmen
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| 7th September 07 |
Newark Advertiser |
Turn Bricks into a Pension! An increasing number of people are choosing to rely on their homes as a cash cow on retirement
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20th August 07 |
Evening Gazette |
First impression count! One in four people say they would not bid for a home if the neighbours garden was untidy.
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| 13th August 07 |
LiverpoolDailyPost.co.uk |
Married couples are more likely to want a home with a garden than those who are single whilst having an untidy garden could knock a whopping 7% off the value of your home!
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| 10th August 07 |
Yorkshire Post |
Homebuyers are prepared to spend an additional £30,000 to secure a home with a garden
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| 28th July 07 |
The Guardian |
Eight-and-a-half work days lost every year as people opt to surf the net and seek out ways to add value to their homes during office hours
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| 22nd July 07 |
Daily Star |
i-candy recommends RatedTradesmen.com as a way to avoid shoddy merchants
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| 5th June |
The Guardian |
Fifty two percent of us admit to designing our home improvements from our desks, and according to Rated People we each spend eight and a half days a year...
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| 1st June |
The Daily Telegraph (Front Page) |
The equivalent of one million trees are destroyed every year to make 44 million telephone books that are never opened...
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| 1st June |
The Times |
Phone directories an 'absurd' waste. Environmentalists are demanding that telephone directories be printed on 100 percent recycled paper after it emerged yesterday that two thirds of volumes...
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| 1st June |
Daily Record |
A national institution is dying out as figures reveal 44million phone books a year are never even opened...
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| 1st June |
Daily Star |
Your number's up. Many of the 70m copies delivered free to homes and offices are used as doorstops or wedges under wonky table legs...
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| 1st June |
Lifestyle Extra |
Seven-in-ten people (71 per cent) say that they prefer the convenience of internet pages for finding services and suppliers, while one-in-five (18 per cent) say that the internet gives them more choice...
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| 1st June |
Professional Builder |
New research reveals the pressure on men, in particular, to be jacks-of-all-trades when it comes to DIY when, for the most part, they would rather get in the professionals...
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| 30th May |
FiancialAdvice.co.uk |
Britons invest an average £34 in home improvements per week while the weekly pension contribution is 89 per cent less at just £18...
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| 23rd May |
IT Week |
Britons are using their work time to design and plan out their home improvements, according to research...
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| 15th May |
London Lite |
If your house has ever suffered at the hands of cowboy builders, log onto ratedpeople.com where tradespeople are rated on quality, value and reliability...
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| 1st May |
Candis |
You may well be one of the millions of viewers shocked by Rogue Traders on BBC1 last year. The series caught some shocking examples...
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| 18th April |
Metro (London & Regional) |
Britain is a nation of DIY dunces who spend £318million a year on tools they never use...
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| 29th March |
Professional Pensions |
Homeowners are relying on property to fund their retirement rather than traditional pension schemes, new research claims...
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| 26th March |
That's News |
Research out today reveals that people spend 79 percent more money on home improvements than they do on improving their relationship...
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| 26th March |
Retire to the Sun |
More and more Britons are planning on funding their retirement abroad through increased property prices in the UK, new research suggests...
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| 26th March |
London Stock Exchange |
Many people are choosing to invest in property rather than conventional pension plans, according to new research...
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| 26th March |
IMMO Consortium News |
A report by Rated People found that 73 per cent of people surveyed said that they were aiming to sell their home...
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| 23rd March |
FindaProperty.com |
Maybe the issue is not that Britons are forgetting how to save for their future. Maybe, the way in which they choose to invest their hard-earned savings is what has changed...
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| 27th February |
Life Style Extra |
Nearly three-in-four Brits are shunning pension plans and relying on selling their homes to fund their retirement, new research reveals...
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| 24th February |
The Guardian |
The Federation of Master Builders promises homeowners they "won't loose any sleep" if they take out its MasterBond insurance cover...
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| 18th February |
Times Online |
Whether it's changing the engine oil, putting up shelves or fixing a leaky tap, we simply love DIY, spending about £16 billion a year on materials...
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| 18th February |
The Sunday Times |
According to the Office for National Statistics, we spend nearly 20 minutes every day of our lives carrying out repairs or pottering about in the garden...
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| 1st January |
The News Extra And Advertiser |
COWBOY tradesmen are the bane of all our lives. It is estimated that last year botched jobs cost more than £865 million to put right...
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