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• Grayling proposal could lead to smaller rail fare rises

  14-08-2018 20:14 via theguardian.com
  Transport secretary says fares, and staff pay, could be pegged to lower inflation measure
  The transport secretary has opened the way for smaller annual rail fare increases by suggesting they could be pegged to a lower measure of inflation – but only if unions accept the same measure for staff pay. Related: Chris 'Failing' Grayling: standing room only for the gaffe-prone ministerContinue reading...
  
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• I await a second Magnum opus | Brief letters

  14-08-2018 19:01 via theguardian.com
  Morris Traveller in the Alps | What’s the point of Sats? | DNA ancestry tests | A dog called Trevor | Lolly sticksIn the early 60s, I drove a Morris Traveller (Letters, passim) laden with three friends and a month’s worth of camping gear to Yugoslavia. We stalled on a 1:2.5 gradient up the Julian Alps from Villach in Austria to the border. We set about unloading all my passengers and possibly the luggage with a view to them humping everything to the pass. Fortunately, an Austrian arm
  
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• The Tories’ housing plans will solve nothing – we need to build more | Martha Gill

  14-08-2018 13:18 via theguardian.com
  Talk of landlord ‘league tables’ is a deliberate distraction. The only thing that will fix this crisis is build more social housingWhen she first came to power Theresa May promised to address Britain’s “burning injustices”. A few weeks ago, MPs were asked to quietly drop the phrase. Tied up in the complications of Brexit, the government has done very little to help the poor and disadvantaged – those who voted in protest against their own circumstances in the r
  
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• Weighing in over cancelling David Lloyd fitness membership

  14-08-2018 08:00 via theguardian.com
  I think its Ts&Cs prove unfit for purposeWe have been members of the David Lloyd sports centre in Cambridge since 2015 but did not want to renew our annual subscription (it was due to expire on 1 June) because we are leaving the country. In March, David Lloyd sent us a letter stating “To ensure your membership continues seamlessly, please make your payment before the end of this month”. I interpreted this to mean that, unless I paid, our membership would lapse – which is ex
  
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• UK regulators launch ad campaign to warn against pension scams

  14-08-2018 01:01 via theguardian.com
  Raising awareness of fraudster tactics comes as figures show victims lose average of £91,000 A TV advertising campaign to warn the public about pension scams is being launched by UK regulators as new figures show that victims are losing an average of £91,000 each.The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Pensions Regulator have joined forces on the campaign to raise awareness of the most common tactics used by fraudsters. Continue reading...
  
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