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• Budgeting tips from a family of four: ‘My approach to money has drastically changed’

  19-02-2019 17:03 via theguardian.com
  Looking to cut expenses and save money on household bills? Money blogger Victoria Sully, married mother of two, shares her best tried-and-tested budgeting advice Victoria Sully, 33, is a full-time, self-employed blogger who writes about money and lifestyle at lyliarose.com. She lives in Brockworth, Gloucestershire, with her husband Ben, an IT service manager, and their two children, six-year-old Bella and three-year-old Reuben.My approach to money has drastically changed over the past few years.
  
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• First Direct bank steps in to help TV antenna sale victim

  19-02-2019 13:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  The signals were not good after a shopper bought a TV antenna online, but did not receive it.
  
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• HOLIDAYMAKERS beware fraudsters taking off with plane ticket cash

  19-02-2019 13:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  Holidaymakers looking for cheap overseas flights are being targeted by fraudulent ticket sellers armed with new tricks.
  
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• Pound euro exchange rate: GBP/EUR steadies as Eurozone economic sentiment slowly recovers

  19-02-2019 12:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  The pound euro exchange rate is holding steady today and is currently trading in the region of €1.142. GBP/EUR was little changed following the publication of the German ZEW survey of economic sentiment for February, which improved slightly to -13.4.
  
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• Pound US Dollar exchange rate: Pound muted despite record high UK employment

  19-02-2019 12:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  This morning UK unemployment fell to its lowest level since 1975. However, the jobs stats had little impact on GBP/USD, with the exchange rate unmoved at $1.2919. The UK’s ILO unemployment rate for December was released this morning, with the data showing that unemployment remained steady at 4 percent, a multi-decade low.
  
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• RAC repair service broke down over an ‘easy to fix’ problem

  19-02-2019 08:00 via theguardian.com
  I had to take a day off work and pay £267 to be towed home over ‘easy to fix’ faultAfter a weekend in Cambridge, my car wouldn’t start (I live in Derby). On Sunday I called the RAC at about 3.30pm. It arrived at 7.30pm and I was told the car needed a mass air sensor. I was assured the car could be fixed at 10am the next day so I took the Monday off work. I phoned at 11.30am for an update and was told someone would get back within minutes. This did not happen. After furthe
  
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• Most shoppers say Brexit has not affected spending habits

  19-02-2019 07:01 via theguardian.com
  People in pro-leave areas of Britain have tended not to curb expenditure, finds PwC surveyBritish consumers are preparing to carry on shopping despite the mounting political chaos over Brexit, according to a survey, even as business leaders increasingly sound the alarm over the potential hit to the economy.More than half of consumers in the nationwide survey told the accountancy firm PwC they had not, and would not, alter their spending habits over the course of this year as a consequence of Bre
  
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