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• Anti-Trump Protest in UK - Financial Tribune

  04-02-2017 23:47
  
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  Anti-Trump Protest in UK
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  Several thousand people demonstrated outside the US Embassy in London on Saturday against President Donald Trump and his temporary ban on refugees and nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States. Protesters held ...en meer »
  
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• War of convenience as supermarket chains take on small stores

  04-02-2017 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Independent shopkeepers fear Tesco’s deal with Booker will force them out of the picture altogether‘I used to know 98% of my customers by name but now it’s more like 40 to 50%, as there’s always new people coming in and shoppers are not so loyal these days,” says Vijay Patel, who has been manning the checkout in his shop on the edge of a London council estate since the early 80s.Patel, 64, can usually be found watching the BBC news from his perch behind the counter.
  
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• Voting for Brexit hasn’t saved us from secretive trade deals

  04-02-2017 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Once the UK leaves the EU, Liam Fox will be presented with arrangements more secretive and toxic than anything the EU has ever demandedA turbocharged version of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) could be heading Britain’s way after Theresa May’s Brexit white paper. That’s the upsetting irony for those (and there were a few) who voted to leave the European Union to escape nasty trade deals that involve secret courts to resolve corporate disputes.These are
  
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• Eurostar pulls out all the stops with luxury Paris lounge

  04-02-2017 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Train operator hopes new facilities at its Gare du Nord terminal will stop ticket sales falling off a post-Brexit cliffHigh up in the 19th-century edifice that forms the front of the Gare du Nord in Paris, Eurostar has found a new, grand perch.The cross-Channel train service has a startling upgrade in store for its business travellers, the latest gambit to bolster a company that is right in the frontline of Brexit. Last week it unveiled a lounge designed to feel more like an elegant Parisian fla
  
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• Is Ticketclever the way to put rail fares back on track? We find out

  04-02-2017 08:01
  
  The website, which went live this week, promises to cut the cost of taking the train by up to 60% using ‘groundbreaking’ technology. We put it to the testA new train ticket website is promising to save passengers as much as 60% on rail fares by finding route combinations and “split ticket” deals not normally available on standard booking systems.Ticketclever.com, created by a former senior executive of Virgin Trains and Trainline, went fully live this week and says it use
  
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• Game over! How to beat the 10% rise in the cost of your TV, phone and broadband

  04-02-2017 08:01
  
  The big telecoms companies hike prices twice a year, knowing we can’t live without the internet. What to do? Switch to a small provider, and haggleMillions of households who rely on a big telecoms firm to provide their home phone, broadband and TV packages are facing price rises of up to 10% in the coming weeks. Some commentators have described the increases as “unjustified and excessive”, given that wholesale costs have fallen and inflation is 1.6%. So what can you do about it
  
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• Skoda ‘writes off’ my six-year-old £20,000 car when it suffers a common fault

  04-02-2017 08:00
  
  I would have to pay £8,250 to repair the timing chain mechanism although many others have reported the same problemIn early October I drove my six-year-old Skoda Octavia vRS car into my local Skoda dealer with an intermittent fault that was causing a loss of power and strange engine noises. I was eventually told that the timing chain mechanism had failed and it needed a new 2.0 litre turbo engine – at a cost of £8,250.Continue reading...
  
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• Is it OK to use ticket resale sites like Viagogo?

  04-02-2017 08:00
  
  We have five gig tickets that we now can’t use and would like to make the money backEvery 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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• Are you a serious buyer? Estate agents can now ask you to pay up to prove it

  04-02-2017 08:00
  
  Homebuyers are being hit with demands for hefty payments to ‘show they are committed’. And changes to the Property Ombudsman’s code of conduct could make matters worseIf you were putting in an offer on a house, how would you feel if the estate agent asked you to hand over £1,000 to prove you were a “serious” buyer? Would you pay up, or assume this was illegal and tell them where to get off?Growing numbers of homebuyers are in effect being charged for the privi
  
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• ‘Your husband could end his MBA with little but debt to show for it’ – our work expert responds

  04-02-2017 07:59
  
  Our careers expert – and you the readers – advise a DJ seeking stability, and a man debating whether to do an expensive MBAFor more than a decade I’ve been working in electronic music, and have been successful enough to make a fairly decent living as a DJ and music producer. Continue reading...
  
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• Beware the call connection services that charge £3.60 a minute

  04-02-2017 07:59
  
  If you go online for a firm’s phone number, beware websites promoting ones starting ‘09’ – you could pay over the odds unnecessarilyConsumers are paying up to £3.60 a minute to phone retailers, insurance companies, utilities firms and essential government services, despite the fact that in most cases these companies and organisations offer free or local call rate numbers.Some people have been left with huge bills they say they were not expecting after going online t
  
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• Gold rush strikes Asian jewellery

  04-02-2017 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  DEMAND for gold hit a three-year high in 2016 as institutional investors including pension funds piled in amid political uncertainty surrounding Brexit and Donald Trump’s election.
  
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• City News: Premier Oil and Lloyd's insurer Beazley

  04-02-2017 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  PREMIER Oil has agreed a deal for refinancing which will give lenders a say on new projects.
  
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• City & Business: It's all rosy for service sector

  04-02-2017 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  CONFIDENCE among firms in the dominant services sector hit an eight-month high in January, boosting the UK’s growth prospects despite rising cost pressures from a weaker pound.
  
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