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• Powerful software to assist ticket touts widely available online

  21-05-2016 21:06
  
  Despite renewed efforts to clean up the market for tickets in major events, it remains easy to purchase tools that defeat vendors’ security measuresSoftware that helps touts bypass the security systems of major ticketing companies and scoop up tickets at the expense of fans is easily available online – and even comes with YouTube videos to explain how to use it.Scrutiny of ticketing firms and touts has reached fever pitch ahead of a government-backed report into the industry due to b
  
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• EU Ref: Financial firms 'will quit UK after Brexit vote' - Scotsman

  21-05-2016 11:27
  
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  EU Ref: Financial firms 'will quit UK after Brexit vote'
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  Leaving the EU would see finance firms quit the UK and move their head offices to Europe, EU Commissioner Lord Hill has claimed. The warning by the EU Commissioner for Financial Stability was made on a visit to Edinburgh where he warned of the ...en meer »
  
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• House prices could fall by 18% if Britain quits EU, says George Osborne

  21-05-2016 10:40
  
  Chancellor predicts Brexit would cause an ‘economic shock’ but pro-leave minister dismisses ‘extraordinary claim’ House prices could take an 18% hit over the next two years and there will be an “economic shock” that will increase the cost of mortgages if the UK votes to leave the EU, George Osborne has warned. Related: Rents and property values would drop after Brexit, say landlordsContinue reading...
  
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• What I've learned on the job: veterans and rookies swap notes

  21-05-2016 10:00
  
  Experienced priests, police officers, nurses and others share their wisdom with the new kids on the blockTell us what you’ve learnt at work
  Father Wilfrid McGreal, 77, was ordained 52 years ago and is a Carmelite friar, based at the Shrine of St Jude, Faversham. Father Leonard Tatt, 52, was ordained in 2013, after a long career with Royal Mail. He is now a parish priest at St Boniface, Tooting, south London.Continue reading...
  
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• Rookies and veterans: tell us what you've learnt at work

  21-05-2016 10:00
  
  Whether you’re new to the profession or have years of experience behind you we’d like to hear your experiences
  Experienced priests, police officers, nurses and others have shared their wisdom with the new kids on the block for a feature for guardian Weekend magazine.Detective chief superintendent Sue Scott, 49, joined Avon and Somerset Constabulary in 1985 and retired in December 2015. “When I joined, you wouldn’t show emotion, just as a self-preservation mechanism. My ro
  
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• The Rotterdam couple that will live in a house made from waste

  21-05-2016 09:00
  
  Two architects are building a house with bricks made from old construction waste produced by Dutch startup StoneCyclingRotterdam, the Dutch city home to more than 600,000 people and hundreds of high-rise buildings, can feel pretty dense. But hop on a bike and cycle around the city centre and you can still discover empty plots of land. Related: Rotterdam: designing a flood-proof city to withstand climate changeContinue reading...
  
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• How did we get pension calculations so wrong?

  21-05-2016 08:00
  
  Workers will have to save much more of their salary or stay in their jobs a lot longer if they want a decent income in retirementThere is a rule of thumb that financial advisers and asset management companies use to tell us how much we need to save, and how long our pensions will survive in retirement. But research released this week finds that we’ve been getting it wrong all along.The rule of thumb is that the safe level of withdrawal from your pension is 4% a year. Advisers say that as l
  
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• Enjoy your European holiday without surprise bank fees

  21-05-2016 08:00
  
  Whether you are withdrawing cash from an ATM or shopping for souvenirs, there are ways to save yourself from excessive bank chargesExperts are split over whether a vote next month to leave the EU would make European holidays more expensive. Last weekend’s Sunday People newspaper said Labour had calculated that “fears of Brexit” would add £115 to the average family holiday this summer. But whatever the result on 23 June, picking the wrong plastic to use on a European holid
  
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• Do I have to give £50 to my niece’s first holy communion?

  21-05-2016 08:00
  
  I can’t believe the sums involved but don’t want to be seen as a tightwadEvery week a Guardian Money reader submits a question, and it’s up to you to help him or her out – a selection of the best answers will appear in next Saturday’s paper.This week’s question: Continue reading...
  
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• Call for ticket touting to be criminalised

  21-05-2016 08:00
  
  There’s a growing outcry over vastly inflated gig prices as the government prepares to publish its review of the secondary-ticketing marketSome of the music industry’s leading players are demanding that ticket touting be made a criminal offence for all UK concerts, plays and sporting events, Guardian Money can reveal.The calls for ministers to take action come on the eve of the publication of a government-commissioned review of the secondary ticket market, which is dominated by four
  
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• Buy insurance or come back tomorrow, was Goldcar’s airport ultimatum

  21-05-2016 08:00
  
  It was nearly 11pm and I was painfully aware I would be sleeping rough if I did not complyI know there’s been no shortage of complaints about Goldcar car rental, but I had an experience with them in Nice airport last week that I thought would be interesting to your readers. My flight was delayed, so when I arrived at Goldcar the office was closing. I called from the terminal and the agent agreed to wait for me. After we spent about 10 minutes filling in the paperwork, the agent suddenly an
  
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• A rental market that’s more hellish than London

  21-05-2016 08:00
  
  Think London is bad? Try New York, with its clueless agents, tiny apartments and absurd feesIn the summer of 2013 my job at an advertising agency in London was transferred to New York. I was excited; who wouldn’t grab the opportunity to work in one of the world’s most exciting cities? What’s more, for a short period my company even paid for an apartment for myself and a colleague while we explored different neighbourhoods and found our own place to stay.When the time came to na
  
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• The tiny scratches that can result in large bills when you hire a Green Motion car

  21-05-2016 07:59
  
  Motorists are angry at the amount they are charged for minor damage by the firm Green Motion when they return their vehiclesWhen French television journalist Hélène Hadas-Lebel from Paris booked a hire car for her family for a visit to Britain, she was impressed by the environmental credentials of franchised rental company Green Motion.At Birmingham airport, in the pouring rain, she says they collected the car and pointed out a few scratches to the agent, but were told not to worry
  
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• How to create the perfect password

  21-05-2016 07:59
  
  Standard words won’t protect you from determined hackers. But you can make your online accounts safe in just a few easy stepsOnly idiots, we know, use “password” as their password. Or “123456”. Or “football” (the seventh most common password in the world). Maybe you carefully add an upper case letter, an unusual character or two, plus a few numbers to your Pa$swOrd.But with hackers using “brute force” software to make as many as 8m password g
  
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• Labour calls for councils to help first-time buyers

  21-05-2016 01:01
  
  Shadow chancellor John McDonnell says cheap, local authority-backed mortgages can help address decline in home ownershipCouncils should offer cheap, local-authority backed mortgages to help first-time buyers and bring in rent regulations, according to the shadow chancellor, John McDonnell. In a speech at Labour’s state of the economy conference on Saturday, he will say the party wants to address the “freefall decline in home ownership among young people”, pointing to a number o
  
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• Uncertainty in the property market gives rise to the Brexit clause

  21-05-2016 00:40
  
  Option to scrap deals in event of Britain voting to leave EU keeps jittery buyers onside as market shows strainWith a month to go until the EU referendum, there are signs that property investors have growing concerns about the possible impact of a leave vote.City law firm Nabarro said on Friday that commercial property investors were adding “Brexit clauses” to contracts that will allow them to pull out of deals if the UK votes to leave on 23 June. Continue reading...
  
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