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• Mastercard refund: Could YOU claim £300 in Mastercard landmark ruling?

  20-04-2019 17:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  MASTERCARD could be forced to pay some customers in the UK a £300 compensation after a landmark court ruling this week. Could you claim the money?
  
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• The private frontier: corporate space explorers stand by for a $1tn lift-off

  20-04-2019 17:00 via theguardian.com
  Trump’s ambitions for US lunar exploration will be a further boost to the billionaires building a new generation of rocketsPresident Donald Trump has struggled with some of his signature policy promises, but now he has set his sights higher: a return to the moon, five decades after humans last set foot there.The White House has spoken of landing the first woman on the moon within five years and Trump’s vice-president, Mike Pence, has made it clear that the private sector – much
  
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• The consumers’ champion chasing Mastercard for £14bn

  20-04-2019 17:00 via theguardian.com
  Ex-financial ombudsman Walter Merricks tells why he took on the case that could now pay each adult in the UK £300When the Consumer Rights Act came into force in 2015, one man was keeping a keen eye on businesses failing to serve their customers properly. So when Mastercard didn’t respond to a ruling from the European commission that it was profiting unfairly on transaction fees, the “lack of contrition” propelled him into action.Joining forces with the largest law firm in
  
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• Why you should pay your parents £100 board a month

  20-04-2019 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Researchers calculated that young adults save £8,000 a year by living at home – and worked out how much they should pay for board each monthThe ‘boomerang’ generation still living with their parentsYoung adults should be paying at least £100 a month to their parents for living at home, according to a major academic study into the costs of the “boomerang” generation.The main additional cost is food, say the researchers from Loughborough University and the
  
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• What's the best thing to do with an old diesel car?

  20-04-2019 08:00 via theguardian.com
  I live in the new ultra-low emissions zone, so I’ll have to pay £12.50 a day. What should I do?Every 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.
  I have a 15-year-old diesel car in south London. I live in the new ultra-low emission zone, which from 2021 will mean I have to pay £12.50 a day. I could sell it, but it’s probably worth less th
  
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• The 'boomerang' generation still living with their parents

  20-04-2019 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Soaring house prices leave millions of young adults unable to afford to move outHow do the finances work for ‘boomerang’ generation families?Would you want to move back into your parents’ home after university? How much rent, if any, should you pay? Can you survive socially into your 20s and even 30s living with your parents? Those are the dilemmas faced by millions of young adults as soaring house prices have forced millennials back into the parental home.This major change to
  
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• Fake reviews: How the Facebook 'factories' are still ripping us off

  20-04-2019 08:00
  Months after a Which? investigation into the manufacture of misleading reviews on Amazon, most are still activeConsumers continue to risk being ripped off as a result of fake review “factories” on Facebook that manufacture misleading Amazon product reviews, says Which? It told Guardian Money that “nearly all” of the Facebook groups it uncovered last autumn were still active this month.Earlier this week it claimed Amazon’s system was being undermined by a flood of fa
  
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• An Isa with 8.24% fixed interest a year. Is that simply too good to be true?

  20-04-2019 08:00 via theguardian.com
  It’s an eye-catching offer popping up in Facebook newsfeeds this month. But, in the wake of a controversial mini-bonds scandal, people are wary. As one financial expert advises ‘stay away’, we spell out the factsIt’s an advert that’s been popping up in many people’s Facebook newsfeeds during the last few weeks, for a “Platinum Isa” that pays a fixed 8.24% a year.That’s certainly an eye-catching rate, and it prompted one of those who contacted
  
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• An inspirational talk made me want to work in human rights

  20-04-2019 08:00
  Sara Kenny, 23, earns £8,700 working for a charity while studying for a master’s degree in human rights and political scienceName: Sara Kenny
  Age: 23
  Occupation: Part-time student and digital content campaign manager
  Salary: £8,700I realised part way through my zoology degree that I didn’t see a long-term career in it. I wasn’t as passionate about zoology as some fellow students, who ate, breathed and slept it. After university I took a gap year and continued to liv
  
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• What makes a great place to live? Answer: it’s not a shopping plaza | Simon Jenkins

  20-04-2019 07:00
  Hipster watering holes in formerly run-down neighbourhoods are the new cathedralsThe best place to live in Britain today is Salisbury. So says the Sunday Times. The Office for National Statistics disagrees. It says the best place is Farnborough. No, says the Royal Mail, it is Winchester. The Provident says it is Worcester. The Halifax says it is Stornaway. And so it goes. This is listicle season, and not a magazine is without some daft “survey” of topographical superlatives. Each yea
  
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