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• Pensions rules leave women shortchanged | Letters

  08-10-2018 19:25 via theguardian.com
  Women born in the 1950s are on the march about cuts to their state pensions, says Pamela Judge, while Judith Abbs is underwhelmed by the increase she’ll get for being 80On 10 October, 1950s-born women and their supporters will travel from all over the UK to Parliament Square in London to stand shoulder to shoulder and protest about the loss of up to six years’ state pension, for many a sum of over £40,000. We received little or no notice – in my case three years – t
  
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• We rent in Brixton – should we move out of London to buy?

  08-10-2018 08:24 via theguardian.com
  We’ve been looking at places around the south-east, but they seem dull and boringQ I rent a two-bed flat in Brixton with my husband and two daughters who are eight months old and two. Rather reluctantly we have been thinking about moving out of London to buy a house somewhere in south-east England that is commutable to London for work. It makes sense for us to move south as we both grew up in East Sussex and both sets of parents still live there. We have been visiting places down south to
  
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• Women in Construction

  08-10-2018 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Guardian photographer Alicia Canter photographs 12 women working in the UK construction industry and talks to them about their experiencesConstruction engineer at Tideway Continue reading...
  
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• Who pays if your rented car is damaged in the street?

  08-10-2018 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Enterprise Car Club is keeps chasing us, despite the fact we paid it £400 to settle the claimI work for a charity in Edinburgh that supports disabled people, and we use Enterprise Car Club for short rentals to take clients with mental health issues on outings. We were recently invoiced for damage to a car we had used – a small scratch at bumper level. Although we were concerned there was no evidence that my colleague was driving – the cars are left on busy public streets &ndash
  
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• Treasury weighs up tax break for landlords who sell to generation rent

  08-10-2018 01:01 via theguardian.com
  Thinktank draws up plan at time when 40% of young adults are unable to buy a homeThe chancellor, Philip Hammond, is considering using this month’s budget to introduce a “good landlord” tax break rewarding investors who sell properties to sitting tenants amid a housing crisis that has left 40% of young adults unable to buy a home.The Treasury is weighing up a new Help to Buy proposal whereby landlords would not have to pay capital gains tax when selling up to tenants who had bee
  
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