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• Sachin Tendulkar conferred with Fellowship Award in UK - Financial Express

  06-05-2017 17:17
  
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  Sachin Tendulkar conferred with Fellowship Award in UK
  Financial Express
  India's cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar plans to support charities and various initiatives to help the under-privileged people in the second innings of his life. By: PTI | London | Updated: May 6, 2017 9:17 PM. 50. Shares. Facebook · Twitter · Google ...en meer »
  
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• UK Financial Conduct Authority Publishes MiFID II Commodity Position ... - The National Law Review

  06-05-2017 16:43
  
  The National Law Review
  UK Financial Conduct Authority Publishes MiFID II Commodity Position ...
  The National Law Review
  On May 3, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a document containing reporting instructions (Instructions) for trading venues and investment firms submitting position reports under the revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive ...
  
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• Lancashire living rooms: the backdrop to cottage industry revolution

  06-05-2017 14:02 via theguardian.com
  Area is experiencing a makers’ renaissance as small-scale producers set up shop in their lounges and kitchensIn a small galley kitchen in a terraced house in Blackburn this week, a crack operation was under way. With the first ever National Festival of Making opening in the town on Saturday, Zainab Bilal had several hundred pies to cook – in between her day job as a teacher and taking care of her five children. Related: The bespoke furniture makers plying their tradeContinue reading.
  
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• 'Your job is affecting your health and relationships' – our work expert responds

  06-05-2017 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Our careers expert – and you the readers – help a corporate worker who wants a wildlife role and a teacher who disagrees with his wife over quittingI am at a crossroads with my career and need to figure out the next step. I have held mainly corporate roles (more than a decade’s experience in event management, communications and public relations), but have experience with celebrity authors assisting with media interviews. Continue reading...
  
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• Where can I find a good desk chair without spending a fortune?

  06-05-2017 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  I work from home and need suggestions for a comfortable chair that doesn’t look like it came from a call centreEvery 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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• Tripsta charges £118 to change misspelled name on flight booking

  06-05-2017 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  While most airlines now correct minor spelling errors for free, some online flight bookers still chargeAir travellers who mistype their names when booking flights continue to be charged excessive fees to put them right because they used online travel agents to make the booking.While most big airlines, including the low-cost carriers Ryanair and easyJet, now allow customers a 24-hour grace period to correct minor spelling mistakes, online travel agents are continuing to penalise people who make e
  
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• Three cheers Nationwide for bloodying housebuilder noses

  06-05-2017 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The building society has made a surprise intervention into the leasehold flats and houses scandal, making hundreds of new-build properties unsaleableOvernight, Nationwide building society has made hundreds, and possibly thousands, of new-build flats and houses almost unsaleable – and they should be roundly applauded for doing so.In a surprise intervention into the scandal of leasehold flats and houses sold with spiralling ground rents, the society said that from this Thursday it will stop
  
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• Share your horror stories to help end ticket rip-offs

  06-05-2017 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Consumer group Which? launches a worldwide survey into secondary resale sites and urges any victims to take partMusic, theatre and sports fans are being asked to share horror stories about controversial ticket resale sites as part of a campaign by consumer group Which?So-called “secondary” ticket websites, such as StubHub, Get Me In! and Viagogo, provide a platform for people with tickets to sell them on, often at a vast mark-up. These secondary sites have come under scrutiny amid co
  
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