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• Bank of England warns on corporate default risk

  22-08-2023 18:22
  Share of UK companies facing debt stress will rise to 50% by the year-end, says analysis
  
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• Sadiq Khan's ULEZ disaster as majority of Londoners 'can't afford charge'

  22-08-2023 18:14 via express.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Mayor of London Sadiq Khan's low-emissions initiative has people convinced they won't be able to afford to pay penalties.
  
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• How a lack of power grid capacity is holding back UK economic growth

  22-08-2023 18:00
  Businesses warn that the struggle to meet demand for new connections is putting decarbonisation plans at risk
  
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• How a lack of capacity on power grid is holding back UK economic growth

  22-08-2023 18:00
  Businesses warn that the struggle to meet demand for new connections is putting decarbonisation plans at risk
  
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• Is sterling spent?

  22-08-2023 16:53
  Pound out of ground
  
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• ‘I started my side-hustle with £10 - now it's making five figures a year’

  22-08-2023 16:28 via express.co.uk
  
  Danielle Flynn launched Gift and Graze during lockdown and managed to reach 280,000 visitors in her first year.
  
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• Network Rail faces court case over fatal Scotland train crash

  22-08-2023 16:27
  Public body to appear at High Court in Aberdeen over 2020 collision
  
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• Hunt urged to cut UK taxes after better than expected borrowing data

  22-08-2023 16:11
  Tory MPs press chancellor after latest figures for public finances are stronger than anticipated
  
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• Nationwide Building Society announces mortgage rates to be slashed by 0.4 percent

  22-08-2023 16:10 via express.co.uk
  
  Mortgage rates are being cut by building societies, including Nationwide, to better help customers amid a time of soaring interest rates.
  
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• NS&I clarifies rules for buying Premium Bonds for extended family

  22-08-2023 15:18 via express.co.uk
  
  A person got in touch with the savings provider to ask about buying Premium Bonds for their godchild.
  
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• Full list of Barclays, Lloyds, NatWest and HSBC branches shutting down within days

  22-08-2023 15:12 via express.co.uk
  
  More than 400 banks will be closing their doors this year to account for reduced footfall as more customers shift business online.
  
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• It’s far too early to declare the end of inflation

  22-08-2023 14:11
  Economists on either side of the Atlantic should not bet on a ‘soft landing’
  
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• Struggling woman with £15k household income 'too scared to turn heating on'

  22-08-2023 13:42 via express.co.uk
  
  Millions of UK households risk illnesses as they suffer in low temperatures to avoid putting the heating on, new data shows.
  
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• Child Benefit warning as deadline to claim £1,248 from HMRC just days away

  22-08-2023 12:46 via express.co.uk
  
  Parents have one week after GCSE results day to inform HMRC if their child is continuing education in order to keep receiving Child Benefit payments.
  
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• UK-India trade talks intensify in bid to remove ‘significant’ barriers

  22-08-2023 12:14
  Kemi Badenoch seeks progress with New Delhi this week but officials say full agreement unlikely ahead of G20 summit
  
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• Mortgage success: when porting could be the answer – The Crusader

  22-08-2023 11:23 via express.co.uk
  
  Borrowing rates up, property prices down and a mortgage maelstrom to contend with - what is a homeowner with a loan deal to do for the best when they want to sell up, buy again and move on with their life?
  
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• Inheritance tax shakedown as HMRC rakes in extra £273m and families overpay

  22-08-2023 11:15 via express.co.uk
  
  An increasing number of families are being dragged into the inheritance tax net due to years of house price increases, soaring inflation, and tax freezes.
  
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• NS&I launches new Green Savings Bond with ‘higher’ 5.7% interest rate

  22-08-2023 11:06 via express.co.uk
  
  Money invested in Green Savings Bonds continues to help finance green projects as part of the Government's Green Financing Framework.
  
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• Santander announces further round of mortgage rate reductions - ‘other lenders may follow'

  22-08-2023 10:41 via express.co.uk
  
  Santander has reduced interest rates on residential fixed rate mortgage products by between 0.02 and 0.2 percent.
  
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• Energy supplier to pay customers for shifting usage out of peak time - how to get involved

  22-08-2023 10:19 via express.co.uk
  
  OVO's initiative will pay customers for using less energy between the peak hours of 4pm and 7pm.
  
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• Superpower meltdown! China on brink of collapse and US could be next to crash

  22-08-2023 09:31 via express.co.uk
  
  The economic and political situation in China is even more desperate than it looks , but could the US go into meltdown, too? It could easily happen.
  
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• Pensioners need 'eye-watering' extra £68,700 for comfortable retirement as costs soar

  22-08-2023 09:17 via express.co.uk
  
  Pensioners need extra £68,700 for comfortable retirement as living costs soar
  
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• UK public borrowing rises less than expected in July to £4.3bn

  22-08-2023 08:23
  Figure could give chancellor room for tax cuts ahead of next general election
  
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• Why the minimum wage works

  22-08-2023 06:00
  It reduces pay inequality while employment doesn’t suffer — even if productivity is not boosted
  
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• The minimum wage has passed the high inflation test

  22-08-2023 06:00
  It reduces pay inequality while employment doesn’t suffer — even if productivity is not boosted
  
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• Leadership skills neglected for too long, warns UK management body

  22-08-2023 06:00
  CMI says more highly skilled supervisors are needed to boost productivity and improve public services
  
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