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• Households on prepayment meters facing £1bn debt 'disaster'

  14-04-2023 23:01 via express.co.uk
  
  Firms forcibly installed 94,000 prepayment meters using warrants in 2022.
  
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• NHS prescriptions: Full list of medical conditions that qualify for free medication

  14-04-2023 17:41 via express.co.uk
  
  The NHS prescription price has risen an additional 30p, increasing from £9.35 to £9.65.
  
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• ‘Change is always difficult’: from no lids to vac-packs, the war on plastic packaging divides opinion

  14-04-2023 17:08
  
  As more supermarkets put recycling at forefront, ‘early adopters’ are pitted against shoppers ‘who are challenged by it’First it was the yoghurt pot lids, coloured milk bottle tops and best-before labels, removed in the name of the war on plastic. But when one supermarket sucked the air out of packs of mince, for some shoppers it was a bridge too far.While Sainsbury’s had boasted a “supermarket first”, its vacuum-packed mince – part of an industry-
  
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• State pension exceeds £10,000 but some may face taxes with triple lock 'up for debate'

  14-04-2023 16:30 via express.co.uk
  
  The state pension has received a bumper boost - but it may mean more tax for some pensioners.
  
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• Leeds Building Society increases savings interest rates across ISAs to 4.26%

  14-04-2023 16:24 via express.co.uk
  
  Leeds Building Society has announced that from today, it will be hiking the interest rates offered on multiple savings products.
  
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• Britons may be able to avoid inheritance tax by giving loved ones gifts

  14-04-2023 16:15 via express.co.uk
  
  Inheritance tax can be avoided, but Britons will need to take action.
  
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• My partner doesn’t want me on the mortgage – should I be worried?

  14-04-2023 15:00
  
  A power imbalance in your relationship could spell trouble for the future. It’s time to have an honest conversationMy partner bought a house last year which I now live in, but we don’t share a thing and I am starting to wonder if this is normal.I am in my 20s with a good career, and I rented from when I went to university until my partner bought the house without me. I didn’t move in straight away because I understood the risks, and we agreed I wouldn’t have my name on an
  
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• DWP warning: Universal Credit claimants could go to court if they fail to report changes

  14-04-2023 14:29 via express.co.uk
  
  Universal Credit claimants may have to pay a penalty if they fail to report one of the 13 changes in circumstance to the DWP.
  
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• Tell us: Have you been affected by insolvencies of UK home builders?

  14-04-2023 14:08
  
  We’d like to hear from people in the UK whose building contractor went bankrupt, and from insolvent business owners in the construction sector While the UK construction sector grew by 1.3% in the final quarter of 2022, a report warned in January that a “perfect storm” of factors could lead to more than 6,000 company insolvencies in the UK construction sector this year, and that over 100 firms in the sector could collapse each week.We’re interested to hear from people who
  
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• Santander offers Britons chance to win £20,000 with ‘lucky customer’ due windfall

  14-04-2023 13:56 via express.co.uk
  
  Santander is offering the chance for savers to win big at the start of a new tax year.
  
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• One in five UK children aged three and four have mobile phone, study finds

  14-04-2023 12:58
  
  Rise in phone use by young raises public health question but experts caution against ‘screen time’ fearsOne in five three- and four-year-olds in the UK have their own mobile phone, according to Ofcom research, and the rapid rise of phone use by very young children has brought the issue into the foreground as a public health question.However, researchers in this area are generally keen to shift the narrative away from the “harms of screen time”, saying the uses of phones c
  
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• ‘Coupon Queen’ slashes £777 grocery shop to £24.66 - saving 97 percent on final bill

  14-04-2023 12:55 via express.co.uk
  
  The savings expert shared how she makes the equivalent of a six-figure salary by reducing her supermarket shop bill via coupons.
  
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• Best savings accounts 2023: Top 10 easy access savers with high interest now

  14-04-2023 12:40 via express.co.uk
  
  Some easy access savings accounts are now paying interest rates as high as 3.6 percent.
  
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• 'Many have missed out': Britons urged to check if they can boost state pension for free

  14-04-2023 11:55 via express.co.uk
  
  State pension payments are increasing 10.1 percent from this week so it's important for Britons to make sure they get the maximum payments they can ahead of reaching state pension age.
  
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• First hands-free self-driving system approved for British motorways

  14-04-2023 11:26
  
  System in Ford’s Mustang Mach-E allows motorist to remove grip from wheel but eyes must be kept on roadDrivers will be legally allowed to take their hands off the steering wheel on Britain’s motorways for the first time as long as they watch the road, after the government approved another step on the path to self-driving cars.The driving-assist feature in Ford’s latest Mustang Mach-E model, which allows the vehicle to steer and accelerate but also monitors the driver’s at
  
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• Experience: I’ve run the village shop for 50 years

  14-04-2023 11:00
  
  More people shop online, but they still come here for things missing from their orderOne of my earliest memories is playing “shops” with my grandad when I was five. After leaving school at 15 I worked in a fruit shop, but I had no ambition to run my own shop.Things were different back then – you had your family and you raised them. My husband Eric and I had an arable farm in Goulceby, in the Lincolnshire Wolds, but we wanted to do something different. There was a shop for sale
  
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• Shoppers in Great Britain switch to frozen food amid cost of living crisis

  14-04-2023 09:33
  
  Such products doing ‘notably better’ than fresh items, data from Kantar reported by BBC showsBritish shoppers are switching from fresh to frozen food as they try to keep down spending amid the cost of living crisis, retail data suggests.The soaring cost of the weekly shop has been a significant factor in the squeeze on UK households, with food price inflation running at 18.2% amid high energy prices and shortages of salad vegetable because of bad weather in Europe. Continue reading..
  
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• Restored homes with interiors that sing – in pictures

  14-04-2023 08:00
  
  From a grand London flat that links old and new to a village where modernism sits within Victorian walls Continue reading...
  
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• Fast-build modular homes – an answer to the UK housing crisis?

  14-04-2023 07:00
  
  Industry in UK is still largely loss-making but there are hopes it might soon deliver significant proportion of new homesResembling a giant toymaker’s workshop, 16 identical wooden boxes that stand 2.6 metres tall are lined up in a row in a factory near Leeds.Each year the factory manufactures hundreds of apartments and houses, with one to three bedrooms, which leave the premises on lorries fully kitted out. The factory is run by one of Britain’s biggest insurance and pension firms,
  
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• Investigating alleged sexual misconduct at the CBI | podcast

  14-04-2023 04:00
  
  Police have launched an investigation into alleged sexual misconduct at the Confederation of British Industry in the wake of a recent Guardian investigation. Anna Isaac reportsLast week, the Guardian’s City editor, Anna Isaac, reported that more than a dozen women claimed to have been victims of various forms of sexual misconduct at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI). She tells Hannah Moore about what her findings mean for the UK’s most prominent business group.In a statemen
  
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