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• Heathrow airport: talks resume to avert strike action

  03-08-2019 10:12 via theguardian.com
  Talks continue with time running out to prevent industrial action by thousands of workers next weekCrucial talks aimed at averting strikes by thousands of workers at Heathrow airport will resume on Saturday, with time running out to prevent industrial action.The airport has cancelled 172 flights on Monday and Tuesday because of the planned 48-hour stoppage by members of Unite. Continue reading...
  
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• Economics is a failing discipline doing great harm – so let's rethink it | Andrew Simms

  03-08-2019 10:00 via theguardian.com
  Our global economy should serve rather than dominate people – and that includes factoring in the climate crisis, tooSomething is killing conventional economics and it’s probably an inside job. Reliance on abstract mathematics and absurd assumptions has brought the discipline into disrepute, even if politics and policy are guided by the ghosts of its teaching.Nobody was surprised recently to learn that the price of the overdue and over-budget HS2 high-speed rail project could rise by
  
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• Premium Bonds August 2019 winning numbers: Have YOU won this month's premium bonds?

  03-08-2019 09:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  NS&I premium bond winners for August 2019 have been released, making two people instant millionaires. But have you won this month's prize draw?
  
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• Which cheap kitchen worktops should I buy?

  03-08-2019 08:01 via theguardian.com
  Our old Ikea surfaces look worn out and we want something easy to clean and maintenance-freeEvery 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.The wooden worktops on our ageing Ikea kitchen look awful. I don’t want to buy more and face all the oiling and so on, so what do I put in its place? It needs to be cheap, maintenance-free and easy to clean. What wou
  
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• Weak pound: how to get the best exchange rate for your holiday

  03-08-2019 08:00
  What can you do as Boris Johnson’s threats of a no-deal Brexit send sterling tumbling?For anyone heading off on their annual foreign holiday, Boris Johnson’s arrival in Downing Street couldn’t have come at a worse time. His repeated threats that he will take Britain out of the EU without a deal sent the pound plunging further this week. It leaves holidaymakers, who were already feeling the currency heat, facing their most expensive holiday in years.As the pound’s official
  
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• The climate crisis must mean the end of British summer holidays in Spain | Patrick Collinson

  03-08-2019 08:00
  With heatwaves and rising prices on the continent, the UK now looks a much better betSeventeen heatwaves already – and more to come. That’s what the Mallorca newspapers were reporting in early July, as holidaymakers endured day after day of punishing 35C-40C conditions. And they were right. Another unbearable heatwave arrived a fortnight later.The waitress in Palma was in despair. At least you can go back to an aircon hotel, she told me. Her home was a small shared apartment with no
  
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• The climate crisis must mean the end of British summer holidays in Spain

  03-08-2019 08:00 via theguardian.com
  With heatwaves and rising prices on the continent, the UK now looks a much better betSeventeen heatwaves already – and more to come. That’s what the Mallorca newspapers were reporting in early July, as holidaymakers endured day after day of punishing 35C-40C conditions. And they were right. Another unbearable heatwave arrived a fortnight later.The waitress in Palma was in despair. At least you can go back to an aircon hotel, she told me. Her home was a small shared apartment with no
  
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• No-deal Brexit: your financial survival guide

  03-08-2019 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Here’s what might happen to house prices, jobs, savings and pensions – and what you can do about itThe possible scenario Continue reading...
  
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• Marks & Spencer wants bigger food share (with help from Percy Pig)

  03-08-2019 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Chain plans bigger food stores, lower prices and family packs to reverse sales slumpAfter two years of falling food sales Marks & Spencer is fighting back with larger stores, lower prices and family-sized food packs. And giant, oinking Percy Pigs.At a freshly revamped store in Hempstead Valley, Kent, the retailers’s new food boss says “even more fun” will be just as important as better food ranges – hence the larger-than-life version of its best-selling novelty sweet
  
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• Electric scooters aren't as eco-friendly as they seem, study finds

  03-08-2019 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Materials used in manufacturing and companies’ efforts to collect and charge scooters create significant greenhouse gas emissions
  At first glance, the assertion that dockless electric scooters are more environmentally friendly than other modes of transportation seems sound. They don’t emit greenhouse gases. They don’t add to vehicle congestion. “Cruise past traffic and cut back on CO2 emissions – one ride at a time,” touts Bird, one of the most popular scooter
  
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• State pension UK: 'Very unfair' Pensions expert on credits form - are you affected?

  03-08-2019 05:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  STATE PENSION payment amounts depend on a person’s National Insurance record. Now, a pensions expert has highlighted a matter which could see some people unknowingly fail to claim National Insurance credits.
  
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• San Francisco airport announces ban on sales of plastic water bottles

  03-08-2019 00:42 via theguardian.com
  The change, taking effect 20 August, is part of SFO’s plan to become a zero ‘waste-to-landfill’ facility by 2021The days of picking up a plastic bottle of water to stay hydrated during a long flight will soon be over for people flying out of San Francisco’s International Airport (SFO).The airport, which restricted the distribution of single-use plastic straws when the city law went into effect in July, is now banning convenience shops, restaurants and vending machines fro
  
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• 'This is new territory': Australia's powerful Crown casino faces scrutiny like never before

  03-08-2019 00:00 via theguardian.com
  Crown Resorts takes extraordinary steps to deny crime link claims, but faces five separate inquiries and calls for a royal commissionIt is an action of last resort when handling an extreme corporate public relations crisis: if your world is exploding around your ears take out a full-page advertisement in the daily newspapers to protest your innocence.Crown Resorts, the powerful and highly recognisable proprietor of the largest casino complex in the southern hemisphere and product of Australia&rs
  
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