Investing in shares is a very personal thing but is not at all difficult in terms of the process of purchasing them.
Most banks have a share dealing service but there the lowest cost option per deal is probably an online share trader where you will pay small amounts c.£12 per transaction.
In terms of what you should look for depends upon your attitude to risk.
I would spend some time in understanding the latest accounts of a company, how strong is their balance sheet (ie what assets the company has)? And any research that you can do on the market etc is useful also.
You will make money in 2 ways one is in solid dividend payments, the other is in capital (share price) appreciation.
If you don't feel confident enough to do the analysis and to pick your own stocks then there is the option of using a broker to do so for you, the benefits are that they have large amounts of resource to research the stocks and will often generate discounts in purchase price, they do however obviously charge for the service that they offer.
Hope this helps in some way.
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