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• The best places to buy furniture online

  25-08-2018 10:00
  Looking for a sofa, chair or mattress online but baffled by the choice? Look no further …What does it sell? Have a guess. A huge choice of sofas, sofa beds, beds, footstools, dining tables and chairs, as well as a range of mirrors, accent tables and rugs. The brand champions emerging designers with its Design Lab series. Continue reading...
  
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• Will victims of bank fraud now get a better chance of justice? | Patrick Collinson

  25-08-2018 09:24
  Banks shouldn’t refuse refunds by saying victims were negligent, the ombudsman has saidWhen Alison Dean received a text from her bank, the Co-operative, asking whether she had just made a £999 purchase, she did what most of us would have done, and dialled the number in the message.After all, the text was listed on her handset alongside previously sent texts that the PhD student knew had come from the Co-op.Continue reading...
  
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• Gap year travel: is it better to work at home or abroad?

  25-08-2018 09:24
  Our child has deferred going to university and is thinking of working in AustraliaEvery 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.My son has decided to go to university in 2019 and is starting a year off. He needs to earn some money to pay for adventure later on. Does he get a job locally, or head to Australia, or has anyone got a a better plan? What made your
  
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• Where to move for… value for money

  25-08-2018 08:59
  Lloyds Bank’s annual affordability audit this year placed Stirling as the UK’s most affordable placeAs my mother – a true child of ration books – used to say when shopping for sausages: value, Tom, not price. Cheap is not the same thing as value for money. Property can be cheap, but if wages are so bad you can’t afford it... Affordability is a more useful gauge, relying as it does on the ratio between property prices and local wages. Related: Where to move for&helli
  
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• ‘UK Sport funding allows me to compete at Paralympic level’

  25-08-2018 08:00
  Jamie McCowan uses his allowance on equipment and training for the ball sport bocciaI started playing the ball game boccia after going to the Ayrshire Special Games when I was nine and had just started using a wheelchair. I didn’t think Paralympic sport was an option at the time, but the Scottish coach saw I had potential.My brother, Scott (also a Paralympian), and I have Duchenne muscular dystrophy and both play boccia, a target sport with the aim of getting more of your coloured balls cl
  
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• Savings: does your child have a forgotten £1,000 to claim?

  25-08-2018 08:00
  Parents may be unaware of, or lost details of, money in the government’s Child Trust FundDoes your child have as much as £1,000 sitting in an account without knowing it? The government’s now-defunct Child Trust Fund gave newborns from 2002 onwards cash vouchers worth hundreds of pounds – and officials admit that, as the scheme hits its 16th birthday next month, as many as 1m of the 6m funds opened are classed as “addressee gone away”.So how do you find out if
  
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• As small as 13 sq metres: are these the worst new flats in Britain?

  25-08-2018 08:00
  This small block next to the A12 packs in 60 studios. Yet converting offices into tiny living spaces doesn’t even need planning permissionShockingly small flats that apparently measure as little as 3.6 metres by 3.6 metres (12ft x 12ft), residents packed in “like sardines”, a busy six-lane highway just yards away, broken glass and rubbish strewn all around outside ... is Newbury House in east London the 21st century version of a Dickensian slum? Or is this simply the harsh real
  
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• ‘I went on holiday – so how was my card used for a £600 spree at home?’

  25-08-2018 07:59
  TSB has refused to refund a couple for payments made when they were 1,400 miles awayAn Aberdeen couple are warning others to be aware of the risks of contactless bank cards after TSB refused to refund £600 spent contactlessly on their credit card – even though they, and their cards, were over 1,400 miles away in Poland.Frank and Mia Nowak* can’t understand how someone was apparently able to go on a shopping spree – making over 20 transactions – without being asked t
  
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• Homebase plan for Habitat and Laura Ashley - 'This is our LIFELINE'

  25-08-2018 04:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  HOMEBASE creditors have been urged to back a “vital lifeline” restructuring or risk seeing the DIY chain collapse into administration or liquidation.
  
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