Neil Harris's side were boosted further with the news that Birmingham had extended Rotherham's losing streak to four, winning 2-1, though it was not without a scrap at St Andrew's.
The country boosted security on its 500-mile border with Iraq in July, deploying thousands of troops to back up border guards after the jihadis captured Mosul, seized swaths of territory including Anbar province, and announced a caliphate straddling the border with Syria.
First-time buyers who save in a help-to-buy Isa will have their savings boosted with a payment from the government when they decide to buy a property.
Osborne's pension reforms will produce a flood of spending today, not tomorrow, meaning that tax revenues will be boosted in the short term.
The maximum amount that can be put into the Isa and boosted is £12,000, with the government's payment topping this up to £15,000.
Cultural factors have shaped this trend, but efforts to shift attitudes were boosted in 2007 when, in one of three gender-related acts of parliament passed that year, domestic violence became a crime.
The big losers were the Daily Star Sunday, down more than 14%, and the Sun on Sunday, down more than 12% despite a creditable monthly improvement of more than 5%, again boosted by the paper's ever-successful holidays' offers.
The Sun, boosted by its cheap holidays offer, did best of all, recording a 4.57% rise (and, incidentally, we must wait until next month to assess the effect of its dropping Page 3).
Meanwhile, although Virgin's audience in London has fallen over the year by 4.2%, it has been boosted over the past quarter by 3.1% to 1.12 million, a 3.4% share.
Rising rents have also boosted returns in recent years, to the consternation of the campaign group Generation Rent.
The total return of £14,897, equivalent to a compound annual return of 16.2%, was boosted by price rises of 8.3% in 2014, when the property market recovered from its post-crisis slump.
