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• Northern voters cast doubt over Sunak’s transport pledge after HS2 failure

  05-10-2023 22:00 via ft.com
  Announcement may ‘land badly’ with electorate as UK government shifts focus to new local schemes
  
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• Thames Water says pollution fine limits needed to win over investors

  05-10-2023 20:25 via ft.com
  England’s biggest water and sewage provider says shareholder support is conditional on regulatory changes
  
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• Starmer refuses to pledge undoing HS2 cuts

  05-10-2023 19:33 via ft.com
  The Labour leader said on Thursday he can’t commit to reversing Rishi Sunak’s cut to the northern leg of HS2
  
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• Homeowners face shelling out thousands for eco-targets despite Rishi Sunak's U-turn

  05-10-2023 18:45 via express.co.uk
  
  While Rishi Sunak has pushed back many green targets, including ones that pile pressure on mortgage customers, some major lenders have stuck to these pledges. This means that mortgage customers may have to spend thousands to make their homes more eco-friendly.
  
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• Pensioners can ‘sidestep’ income ‘tax trap’ by utilising key pension rule

  05-10-2023 17:55 via express.co.uk
  
  Frozen thresholds have dragged around 500,000 more people into a tax net this year alone.
  
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• Millions of homes still in danger while government prioritise parliament maintenance

  05-10-2023 17:35 via express.co.uk
  
  A damning report reveals the £100m annual maintenance bill for the Houses of Parliament outstrips the £93m the government allows for home improvement grants.
  
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• UK tobacco: falter tips point to slow extinguishing of sector’s spark

  05-10-2023 17:09 via ft.com
  However the good news for the big cigarette makers is that Britain is only a small market
  
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• ‘I went from homelessness to making £15,000 a month thanks to my fitness side hustle!’

  05-10-2023 16:54 via express.co.uk
  
  Side hustles are more than just money-making businesses for people, they are also life-changing endeavours.
  
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• Generation Rent: tenant woes widen role of ‘build-to-rent’ investors

  05-10-2023 16:54 via ft.com
  As small private landlords bail out, it should open the door to commercial developers with access to cheap finance
  
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• NatWest's Ulster Bank offers market-leading easy access account paying 5.2% interest

  05-10-2023 16:44 via express.co.uk
  
  The loyalty saver is open to both new and existing customers.
  
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• Today’s best ISA, fixed rate and easy access savers paying interest up to 6.2%

  05-10-2023 15:03 via express.co.uk
  
  Easy access savers are currently benefitting from interest rates of up to 5.2 percent - the highest seen in decades.
  
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• Yorkshire Building Society launches two new ‘competitive’ savings accounts

  05-10-2023 13:51 via express.co.uk
  
  Savers can now benefit from interest rates of up to 5.1 percent on Yorkshire Building Society's easy access accounts.
  
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• UK construction activity plunges, industry survey shows

  05-10-2023 13:37 via ft.com
  Residential index suffers biggest fall outside of the pandemic since 2009
  
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• Martin Lewis issues 'furious' eight-word response to Nihal Arthanayake's admission

  05-10-2023 13:19 via express.co.uk
  
  The money saving expert is giving his co-host until the end of October to sort out his Will.
  
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• State pensioners with arthritis could get extra £441 a month - check if you're eligible

  05-10-2023 12:41 via express.co.uk
  
  Nearly 400,000 people across the UK are claiming the DWP's Attendance Allowance benefit for arthritis.
  
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• The case against HS2

  05-10-2023 12:00 via ft.com
  Even in countries bigger than England, high-speed rail is often a vanity project that escapes public scrutiny
  
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• DWP offers £100 weekly benefit for these 56 medical conditions - full list

  05-10-2023 11:46 via express.co.uk
  
  Attendance Allowance can pay nearly £5,300 worth of support a year but remains significantly underclaimed.
  
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• Robert Peston slams 'crazy' energy market as Britons scramble to pay bills

  05-10-2023 11:23 via express.co.uk
  
  The energy market has been slammed as "total chaos" as Peston explained Britons look for providers with better service as prices remain stagnant.
  
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• Full list of NatWest branches closing this month - see if yours is shutting within hours

  05-10-2023 09:20 via express.co.uk
  
  Many major high street banks are closing their branches as more customers move to internet banking.
  
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• Savings rates rebound as best buy deal pays 6.11% - so why are mortgage rates falling?

  05-10-2023 08:00 via express.co.uk
  
  Savings rates are rising as banks anticipate that interest rates will stay high for at least another year or two. So why aren't mortgage rates rising, too?
  
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• Where are European mortgage holders most exposed to higher rates?

  05-10-2023 06:00 via ft.com
  Borrower preferences and lender offerings differ dramatically even within the single currency area
  
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• Sunak’s boost for EV procrastinators has made sales targets harder to hit

  05-10-2023 06:00 via ft.com
  A ban on new petrol and diesel cars has been delayed but zero emissions car sales targets have not changed
  
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• How Sunak decided to slash the UK’s troubled HS2 rail project

  05-10-2023 05:00 via ft.com
  Prime minister’s fateful announcement to cull the northern leg of high-speed rail was months in the making
  
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