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• Injustice of retirement age change for women | Letters

  28-02-2016 20:22
  
  Identifying with Gaby Hinsliff’s notion of “knackered older women” directly affected by the austerity pension cut, including the Tory MP Nadine Dorries, I certainly feel part of the “wronged generation” (Opinion, 26 February). Having worked as a teacher full time and then part time after having children, I am now contemplating retirement aged 66. My free national bus pass, which friends and relatives have had from age 60, will also not be accessible until then. Adde
  
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• EU's ban on inefficient toasters delayed to avoid pro-Brexit press attack

  28-02-2016 17:57
  
  Measures to save 10m tonnes of CO2 emissions per year have been delayed amid concerns highlighted by ‘toastergate’The EU has put plans to regulate inefficient kettles and toasters into cold storage amid fears in Brussels that they could galvanise support for the leave campaign in the UK’s 23 June referendum.Mobile phones, lifts, hair- and hand-dryers and vending machines are also on a shortlist of products for increased regulation in 2015-17. The measures had been expected to s
  
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• Big Short's version of housing bubble entertains but reality disappoints

  28-02-2016 17:12
  
  Fears are mounting as real estate industry isn’t known for level-headed behavior at the best of times, and across the US, this isn’t the best of timesOne of the contenders for best picture at this year’s Oscars is The Big Short, the saga of just how we merrily raced off the side of a financial cliff in the years leading up to 2007.The movie somehow manages to make entertaining the insanity behind both the housing bubble and the golden years on Wall Street that accompanied it. I
  
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• Charities to get formal warning about 'chuggers'

  28-02-2016 14:37
  
  Alert from Charity Commission will urge review of fundraising methods including street collecting and tie-in promotionsCharities are set to be formally warned about their commercial fundraising activities, including tie-ins with companies and street collecting, amid increasing concerns that some arrangements risk eroding public trust.The alert from the Charity Commission will go out on Monday to 1,700 charities believed to be involved in such activities, a commission spokesman said, with a warni
  
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• Ofcom opens a road to faster broadband

  28-02-2016 08:00
  
  Telecoms regulator puts pressure on BT to open up its network infrastructure, allowing rivals to lay their own ultrafast fibre-optic linesBroadband users may benefit from better service after a review last week put BT under pressure to open up its network infrastructure to let rivals lay their own ultrafast fibre-optic broadband lines. The move was announced on Thursday as part of Ofcom’s once-in-a-decade review of the telecoms market. The regulator opted for this course of action after de
  
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• Hung out to dry by Domestic & General’s washing machine warranty

  28-02-2016 08:00
  
  I’ve been waiting more than a month for D&G to honour its repair warranty, and it’s costing me loads at the launderetteI am a desperate mother of three, the youngest being 10 weeks old, who has been waiting more than a month for Domestic & General to honour its warranty and repair my washing machine.A technician initially diagnosed the problem as being the drum. It then took two weeks to find a replacement and, despite my pleas, a further two before the first available slot t
  
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• New financial crash 'certain', UK banker - The Australian (subscription) (blog)

  28-02-2016 04:41
  New financial crash 'certain', UK banker
  The Australian (subscription) (blog)
  Another financial crisis is "certain" and will come "sooner rather than later", the former Bank of England governor has warned. Mervyn King, who headed the bank between 2003 and 2013, believes the world economy will soon face another crash as ...en meer »
  

• New financial crash 'certain', UK banker - NEWS.com.au

  28-02-2016 04:41
  New financial crash 'certain', UK banker
  NEWS.com.au
  New financial crash 'certain', UK banker. Another financial crisis is "certain" and will come "sooner rather than later", the former Bank of England governor has warned. Mervyn King, who headed the bank between 2003 and 2013, believes the world economy ...en meer »
  

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