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• ISA vs pension: Where should you put £10,000 - Is it better to invest in pension or ISA?

  24-03-2019 17:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  THE end of the tax-year is quickly approaching and savers are encouraged to ensure they have made the most of their spare cash. So where should you put £10,000 and is it better to invest in you pension or ISA?
  
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• Motorway meals: how 60 years of the service station has shaped how Britain eats

  24-03-2019 15:00 via theguardian.com
  The first service station opened in Watford Gap in 1959 – and the motorway meal was born. What does its evolution tell us about British tastes, past and present?On a drizzly day, Britain isn’t looking – or tasting – its best. I’m at Watford Gap services on the M1, the country’s first service station on the country’s first motorway, both 60 this year (although the restaurant opened in 1960). “If you want to see Britain, go to Watford Gap,” Dav
  
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• The European Union has bigger problems to deal with than Brexit

  24-03-2019 13:09 via theguardian.com
  The next recession will expose the eurozone as a half-baked project in need of leadershipAs the clock has ticked down towards Brexit, the state of the UK has attracted even more attention than normal. Every scrap of official data and every survey of business opinion have been pored over by leavers and remainers alike.Much less attention, understandably enough, has been paid to what is happening in the rest of the European Union, where the recent news has been poor. The frustration of the leaders
  
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• Household bills: loyalty doesn’t pay … and it’s the elderly who pay the price

  24-03-2019 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Switching supplier after years seems counterintuitive. But that can cost the most vulnerable customers £200 or more a yearWhen it comes to navigating the vast array of suppliers, offers and tariffs for insurance, broadband, television and other services, there is one strategy consumers are told to use to ensure they get the best deal – keep switching.Although frequently seen as being a cumbersome and time-consuming process, moving from one provider to another has become the best way
  
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• As government flounders, investors find a way to curb executive pay

  24-03-2019 08:00 via theguardian.com
  An unlikely hero – the Investment Association – is wading into pension inequality with a simple, compelling propositionWhen the former Royal Bank of Scotland boss Fred Goodwin reluctantly agreed, in the wake of the bank’s collapse and nationalisation, to cut his annual retirement income to £342,500 a year from £555,000, it clearly illustrated the excessive amounts of cash stashed away in boardroom pensions.Almost all Britain’s largest companies – and man
  
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• May can’t shirk the blame for a Brexit crisis she created | William Keegan

  24-03-2019 07:59 via theguardian.com
  Her attempt to frighten everyone by talking up no-deal amounts to almost criminal negligence with the economy‘People,” a civil servant friend of mine once observed, “are divided into two distinct groups: those who blame others, and those who blame themselves.”After her preposterous address to the nation last Wednesday evening, it is abundantly clear to which group Theresa May belongs. She blames others, not least those of her fellow elected representatives who are trying
  
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• Advice for Brexit bosses who fear they ‘can’t get the staff’

  24-03-2019 07:59 via theguardian.com
  Avoiding the B word, (no, not Barcelona) will be tricky at the British Chambers of Commerce conference this weekAs aficionados of 1970s situation comedy know well, Basil Fawlty did not support the UK’s entering the “continent”, but graciously pledged to make as good a stab at it as he could.“I didn’t vote for it myself, quite honestly, but now that we’re in I’m determined to make it work,” he told a family of unfortunate German visitors staying at
  
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