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The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has taken action against two mortgage brokers whose reckless business practices allowed false and misleading mortgage applications to be made to lenders.

Ngozika Louise Ogboru who ran J N Finance (UK) Limited, a mortgage broking firm based in Harrow, has been banned from carrying out any regulated activity. Ronald Winton from Mortgage Healthcare Limited in Dundee has been fined £31,500, and will not be able to hold a senior position in a financial services firm for two years.

Repair work at St Andrew's Church, Boxford in Berkshire has revealed one of the earliest intact timber windows in the country – a frame complete with a hinged wooden panel dating from the Saxon period.

Not only does the intriguing discovery prove that this attractive church on the banks of the River Lambourn is far older than previously suspected, but it also allows St Andrews to lay claim to having the oldest working wooden window in England.

Birmingham County Court has granted an anti social behaviour injunction (ASBI) against a council tenant and granted Birmingham City Council an outright possession order of her home, bringing an end to her reign of drunken, disorderly and abusive behaviour that has blighted the lives of Northfield residents.

Julie Davis (42), of Hoggs Lane, Northfield was evicted from her home yesterday and handed down an ASBI, which barrs her from entering Hoggs Lane, Dimsdale Road.

Property website, Zoopla.co.uk, has today launched its first national TV advertising campaign which will include a number of prime-time slots across ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and the Sky digital channels.

The initial campaign will run for five weeks to the end of September and is part of an extensive multi-million pound TV, print and digital campaign to run over the coming months.