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• State pension credit: Couples warned to act now - or instead claim universal credit

  17-05-2019 23:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  STATE pension rules have changed when it comes to pension credit, meaning some mixed-age couples may end up getting less than they would have before. The changes may already be underway, but there may be a way to still apply under the old rules - by backdating your claim.
  
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• Let’s move to Hertford: if it’s cool enough for George Ezra…

  17-05-2019 17:30
  A picturesque commuter town (with a fine collection of toothbrushes)What’s going for it? Hertford is a gentle place of small pleasures, like its greatest son George Ezra. Everyone fancies a bit of George – even if it is just singing karaoke drunk at a ’Spoons on a Friday night. Likewise, only the harshest of hearts could savage Hertford. It might not be where you want your life to end up, but there are worse places. Its grand Saxon street pattern sprawled across the confluence
  
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• Champions League final: easyJet DEFENDS £1,000 flight prices for Tottenham Liverpool match

  17-05-2019 16:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  EASYJET’s boss has defended sky-high flight prices of up to £1,000 for football fans wanting to fly to Madrid for the Champions League final.
  
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• Bitcoin breakout boosts altcoins, but fear of a sudden pull-back looms large – ANALYSIS

  17-05-2019 16:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  THE latest twists and turns in the fortunes of bitcoin are having a positive effect across the board of cryptocurrency with BTC’s recent surge bringing the likes of Ethereum, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash and XRP with it.
  
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• A simple guide to credit eligibility checks

  17-05-2019 15:26
  Confused about how credit card eligibility checks work and what, exactly, they do? Well we’ve got the lowdown in this simple, straight-speaking guide …Today there are more than 30 million credit card holders in the UK – but applying for a new credit card isn’t always a straightforward or stress-free process.Or at least, it wasn’t. Continue reading...
  
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• Bitcoin PLUNGES and loses 20 PERCENT of value after astonishing recovery saw it pass $8,00

  17-05-2019 14:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  BITCOIN has abruptly plunged in price, wiping away some of the strong recovery seen this week that had taken the cryptocurrency to levels not seen in 10 months.
  
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• Pret a Manger plotting Eat TAKEOVER with MORE veggie shops if buy-out is successful

  17-05-2019 13:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  PRET A MANGER is poised to buy rival coffee and sandwich chain Eat in a bid to create more vegetarian outlets, according to a report.
  
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• Pound US dollar exchange rate: GBP slumps to three-month low as Brexit talks END

  17-05-2019 11:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  THE pound is down slightly against the US dollar following yesterday’s slump and the pairing is currently trading at around $1.278.
  
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• Pound latest: Sterling PLUMMETS after May’s Brexit talks with Labour collapse

  17-05-2019 10:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  THE pound was trading lower against the euro and US dollar as cross-party Brexit talks collapsed today while Prime Minister Theresa May battled to keep her leadership intact.
  
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• Amazon invests in food courier service Deliveroo

  17-05-2019 08:49 via theguardian.com
  The online giant is the lead investor in a $575m financing roundAmazon in investing millions in Deliveroo in a boost to the UK food delivery service as it takes on a rival such as Uber Eats in a competitive market.The online giant is the lead investor in a $575m financing round, which also includes existing investors T Rowe Price, Fidelity Management and Research Company, and Greenoaks. Deliveroo said it had raised a total of $1.5bn since it launched in 2013. Continue reading...
  
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• Homes in quiet cul-de-sacs – in pictures

  17-05-2019 08:29 via theguardian.com
  Get away from busy traffic with these peaceful properties, from Hampshire to West Yorkshire Continue reading...
  
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• Brexit mess is a 'crushing disaster' for UK business, says CBI chief

  17-05-2019 08:23 via theguardian.com
  Carolyn Fairbairn urges MPs to resolve the gridlock as investor confidence plummetsThe continuing political mess over Brexit is a “crushing disaster” for business in Britain with investor confidence at the lowest since the financial crash a decade ago, the Confederation of British Industry’s director general has said.Carolyn Fairbairn told business leaders in London that “the paralysis” in Westminster continuing “every day without a deal is corrosive” in
  
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• European companies can't compete against global giants

  17-05-2019 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Finance ministers say Europe is increasingly dependent on Chinese and US technologyIt boasts the world’s second biggest economy, a huge consumer market of about 500 million people and prodigious pools of talent and capital, not to mention two of the world’s most important financial centres.But Europe is struggling to match its great rivals, the US and China, in creating the kind of global firms that increasingly dominate the 21st-century marketplace. Continue reading...
  
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• 'That's where the dream ends': the surfers who took on a development company in Fiji

  17-05-2019 07:28 via theguardian.com
  Jona Ratu has lived on Malolo Island his entire life. One day he walked down to the beach of the land he owns with two Australian surfers to find that diggers had arrived and a Chinese development company was tearing up the reef. Ratu and his two friends started a battle that would cost tens of thousands of dollars in order to save their land.Continue reading...
  
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• Fundraising call by Metro Bank raises £375m in three hours

  17-05-2019 01:41 via theguardian.com
  Figure was raised from the £350m originally sought due to investor interest, bank saysMetro Bank has raised £375m from a fundraising call that will strengthen its balance sheet. The bank hopes the move will quash rumours about its financial health that caused customers to pull cash last weekend.A Metro Bank spokeswoman confirmed the lender had closed its share placing early on Thursday evening, less than three hours after it started. Continue reading...
  
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• Survey finds 70% of LGBT people sexually harassed at work

  17-05-2019 01:01 via theguardian.com
  Study shows ‘hidden epidemic’ with BME women and those with disabilities most affectedNearly seven in 10 lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people have been sexually harassed at work, according to research for the Trades Union Congress revealing a “hidden epidemic”.The survey, published on the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia on Friday, found that more than two in five LGBT people (42%) said they had experienced colleagues making unwelco
  
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