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• Is your state pension forecast WRONG? UK pensions overestimated by as much as £23,000

  24-05-2019 22:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  STATE PENSION is a sum of money Britons can look forward to receiving when they reach state pension age, but not everyone knows how much they will get. Many use a state pension forecast to find out - but recent news suggests yours could be wrong. One pensioner found her pension had been overestimated by as much £23,000.
  
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• Hike in European consumers’ complaints against UK traders

  24-05-2019 20:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  EUROPEAN consumers have lodged more complaints than ever before against UK traders over the past year with the number rising 10 per cent.
  
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• Fairly paid? Better to ask your daughter | Brief letters

  24-05-2019 18:07
  Advice for Churchill | BBC pay | Mulhouse’s Bugattis | Perms | Parcel postboxes | HornetsDeborah Behrman (Letters, 24 May) does not recall the wives of male PMs being credited with advising their husbands. What about Clementine Churchill’s letter of 27 June 1940 warning her husband that “there is a danger of your being generally disliked by your colleagues and subordinates because of your rough sarcastic & overbearing manner … I cannot bear that those who serve the C
  
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• A simple guide to finding the right travel insurance for you

  24-05-2019 17:41
  Travel insurance is hardly the most exciting holiday purchase, but it’s one of the most important. So, before you head off to warmer climes, check out this simple guide to holiday insurance to make sure you’re fully covered …Travel is said to broaden the mind, but for peace of mind it makes sense to secure the right travel insurance before you head off.According to Compare the Market, almost one in four people fail to take out travel insurance, leaving themselves at risk of re
  
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• Eurozone NIGHTMARE: EU economy DRAGGED DOWN by Germany as manufacturing SLIPS

  24-05-2019 15:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  THE eurozone manufacturing sector slumped further into contraction territory in May, dragged down by a spluttering German economy which also slipped further into the red.
  
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• Facebook ‘finalising plans to launch own cryptocurrency by 2020’

  24-05-2019 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  FACEBOOK plans to launch its very own cryptocurrency next year as it plots a return to the world of digital tender, according to a report.
  
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• What a trip with a Waitrose shopping basket taught me | Coco Khan

  24-05-2019 15:00
  No carrier bag? No problem: with confidence, you can carry off anythingLast year, I wrote about becoming (sort of) middle class after growing up skint. My feelings haven’t changed: I still feel this life is not my own, and that I am merely a tourist passing through.But I have my moments. Like when, over Easter, my teenage cousin was talking about Jesus, using the Arabic word Isa. Continue reading...
  
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• US-China trade war ‘will make families £656 WORSE OFF a year’

  24-05-2019 13:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  THE US-China trade war will hit families hard with the average US household set to be $831 worse off, according to economists.
  
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• Giraffe and Ed’s Easy Diner owner plots chicken factory closure putting 550 jobs at risk

  24-05-2019 13:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  THE owner of Giraffe and Ed’s Easy Diner restaurants is closing a chicken factory in Essex, putting more than 550 jobs at risk.
  
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• UK warm weather boosts online sales but high street feels chill

  24-05-2019 12:26 via theguardian.com
  Clothing sales, a sunny February and web promotions drive fastest online growth British shoppers have notched up the fastest quarterly growth in online retail sales on record, in the latest sign of the shifting trends fuelling the decline of the high street.The Office for National Statistics said the amount of goods sold outside of bricks-and-mortar stores increased by 9.4% in the three months to April, the strongest growth of any quarter since comparable records began in June 1988. Continue rea
  
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• Brexit no deal now MORE likely after Theresa May’s resignation, Moody’s issues warning

  24-05-2019 12:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  BRITAIN is more likely to leave the European Union without a Brexit deal after Prime Minister Theresa May announced her departure date, according to credit rating agency Moody’s.
  
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• Experience: I’m a full-time cat sitter

  24-05-2019 11:00
  I’ve looked after 30 cats, saved £10,000 on rent, and it has helped my social anxietyI was living in a 15-person hostel dorm in early 2017 when I decided to start cat sitting. Since moving to London after graduating five years earlier, I had tried various unconventional ways of living. There was a year in a huge warehouse with 30 others, and eight months on a rented boat, but neither was as cheap as the hostel. For just £350 a month I could live in central London.By the time I&
  
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• Pound US dollar exchange rate: GBP rises, Trump offers bargaining chip in China trade spat

  24-05-2019 10:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  THE pound US dollar exchange rate has risen today and is trading around $1.269 at the time of writing.
  
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• Pound latest: Theresa May departure date CONFIRMED – GBP cools after announcement BOOST

  24-05-2019 09:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  THE pound was cooling higher against the euro and US dollar this afternoon after Theresa May announced the date of her departure as leader of the Conservative party.
  
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• Compact homes for sale – in pictures

  24-05-2019 08:00
  Small but perfectly formed properties, from Essex to County Fermanagh Continue reading...
  
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