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• Premium Bonds checker: Have I won Premium Bonds September jackpot?

  03-09-2018 19:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  SEPTEMBER’S Premium Bond numbers have been drawn and two lucky people are now millionaires. But have YOU won?
  
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• Premium Bonds checker: How to check National Savings premium Bonds prize winners

  03-09-2018 18:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  PREMIUM BONDS are essentially prized interest rates released by the UK Government, under the National Savings and Investment Agency. How do you check if you are a winner of National Savings Bonds?
  
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• Fighting for the rights of London’s renters | Letters

  03-09-2018 18:33 via theguardian.com
  If renters come together, we’re powerful enough to realise the big changes our housing system needs, write Shiran Mohamed and Anabel Bennett LópezAs private renters in London, we were interested to read your feature (‘Rent was astronomical’: people on why they left London in their 30s, theguardian.com, 29 August). Most of us don’t have the casual luxury of uprooting ourselves from London – our home – for a new life in Bristol, the Midlands or
  
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• Bitcoin price LIVE: BTC beats resistance to hold above $7k - will crypto-prices increase?

  03-09-2018 16:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  BITCOIN climbed steadily above $7,000 resistance today to ring in the new week, with most of the cryptocurrency market rising into the green. Here are the latest news and live updates.
  
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• Public sector job cuts: is the tide finally turning?

  03-09-2018 16:03 via theguardian.com
  The NHS and civil service are recruiting, but there are still 1.1m fewer public sector workers than in 2009 and councils have been hard hitWho works where in the UK public sector
  “It’s not your normal job; we’re mending lives,” says actor Maxine Peake, in her voiceover to the video spearheading the NHS’s new £8m recruitment campaign, its biggest ever. The health service is growing: in the 12 months to the end of March, the number of NHS staff in England rose b
  
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• English water firms vow to cut bills by up to 10.5% and tackle leaks

  03-09-2018 15:23 via theguardian.com
  Pledge by Severn Trent and United Utilities as Thames Water eyes £11.7bn upgradeThames Water and three other big UK water companies have announced plans to hold down or cut bills while reducing leaks after a political and regulatory backlash against the performance of the industry this year.The companies made their pledges against a backdrop of watchdog censure and a summer of supply shortages and hosepipe bans. Severn Trent and United Utilities said they would cut customer’s average
  
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• September 2018 Premium Bonds: Who won the Premium Bonds September jackpot?

  03-09-2018 12:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  TWO lucky premium bonds holders have bagged themselves the £1 million tax-free prize for September, but who were the winners this month?
  
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• Pound v euro: Exchange rate sheds gains on revived Brexit tensions

  03-09-2018 12:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  GBP/EUR opened this week at the level of €1.116 after seeing some big gains last week, but quickly dropped half a cent to €1.110 at the open. The latest drop has been caused by tensions between the UK and EU in Brexit talks, as well as some underwhelming UK data.
  
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• Pound v US dollar: GBP/USD exchange rate drops -0.5 per cent as UK manufacturing slows

  03-09-2018 12:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  The pound has fallen by -0.5 percent against the US dollar today, trading at a level of $1.289. This poor start to the week follows the news that activity in the UK’s manufacturing sector has slowed by more than expected during August.
  
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• Gen Z and Millennials spurn work at small firms amid hopes internships could heal the rift

  03-09-2018 12:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Working for an SME just doesn’t cut it as far as younger people are concerned, new findings from Santander UK reveal. And that trend may have dire consequences for the economy, cause them to miss out, adversely impact innovation and exports and lead to chronic recruitment headaches for employers.
  
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• Premium bonds winning numbers: Have YOU won the September premium bonds jackpot?

  03-09-2018 11:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  THE premium bonds from September’s draw have been revealed and two lucky people will take home the top prize of £1 million. Have you won the jackpot and how do you check?
  
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• Energy bills: 10m customers to find out if they will save £100

  03-09-2018 09:55 via theguardian.com
  Energy regulator Ofgem due to set out the level of Theresa May’s price cap on ThursdayHouseholds will discover this week whether they will save £100 on their annual energy bills as Theresa May promised them.The energy regulator, Ofgem, is due to set out the level of the government’s energy bill price cap on Thursday, which will protect more than 10m households on default tariffs. Continue reading...
  
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• Ten years on, the Fed’s failings on Lehman Brothers are all too clear | Laurence M Ball

  03-09-2018 09:30 via theguardian.com
  The key policymakers have always maintained they had no choice but to let Lehman collapse. That’s simply not trueIn 2007 Fortune magazine ranked Lehman Brothers investment bank number 1 on its list of “most admired securities firms”. Just a year later, on 15 September 2008, the financial world was shocked when Lehman, with $600bn (£463bn) of assets, filed for bankruptcy, causing chaos in financial markets: stock prices plummeted, credit flows froze, and markets feared tha
  
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• Why did the AA let down my family after a breakdown?

  03-09-2018 08:32 via theguardian.com
  We had to pay more than £200 for taxis as the recovery vehicle could not take usIn April, just before 8pm our car – with four adults, our two-year-old grandson and dog – broke down in Taunton, Somerset. We managed to push it to a pub and called the AA. After 90 minutes, it sent a vehicle, but it did not have enough room for our family. After four hours, we were still waiting, so at midnight we had no choice but to pay £110 for a taxi to take us to our destination in Bridp
  
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• How can I pay a fair price for the loft space above our flat?

  03-09-2018 08:32 via theguardian.com
  The freeholder has rejected a surveyor’s valuation and seems to be taking advantage of us Q My husband and I jointly own a one-bedroom flat in Greater London on a long lease. There is a loft space above the flat, which is only accessible from our flat but isn’t included in the lease.We had a baby earlier this year, and approached the freeholder to ask if they would be willing for us to purchase the lease of the loft space, with the view of making it into a second bedroom. At the time
  
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• Relegation danger for Rightmove

  03-09-2018 05:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Property website Rightmove looks on course to be booted out of London’s blue chip share index this week after a stalling housing market and increased competition. Rightmove is among candidates to be relegated from the FTSE 100 Index when the FTSE Russell EMEA Committee confirms the results of its quarterly review, according to The Share Centre.
  
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• Working families' childcare costs outstrip wage rises, says TUC

  03-09-2018 01:01 via theguardian.com
  Fees have soared by 52% over past decade, compared with 17% rise in earningsChildcare fees for working parents have risen three times faster than wages in the past decade, according to the Trades Union Congress.Costs have gone up by 52% per week since 2008 for families with a full-time and a part-time working parent, despite government initiatives. The earnings of these parents have increased by 17%. Continue reading...
  
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