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• From socialism to private gyms: co-living has gone mainstream, and it feels like a mixed blessing | Mim Skinner

  29-08-2023 18:07 via theguardian.com
  
  A series of new developments are dragging communalism out of the fringes. But can you really put a price on community?Co-living is on the rise, with multiple-occupancy developments coming to a major city near you. Sometimes known as beehive housing, residential buildings are sectioned off into small private units anchored by larger shared spaces; it’s the slickly marketed commercial cousin to the more dorky, and less popular, commune.In a report last year, the estate agent Savills called i
  
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• Homeless families evicted as landlords quit London emergency housing sector

  29-08-2023 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  London councils report 120% year-on-year rise in requests for return of properties used as temporary homesHomeless families are being evicted from emergency accommodation to be replaced by private tenants as the number of landlords quitting the temporary housing sector in London more than doubled in eight months.A survey by London Councils, the cross-party organisation representing the capital’s local authorities, found that between September 2022 and April 2023, 15 boroughs reported recei
  
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• UK flight disruption: your rights and what you are entitled to

  29-08-2023 16:50 via theguardian.com
  
  You may be entitled to a refund, a seat on another flight, a hotel stay or help with food and drinkTravellers continue to face severe disruption after a UK air traffic control technical failure on the August bank holiday led to cancellations and delays. Although the problem was fixed after several hours, more knock-on delays are expected because aircrews and planes are left out of position. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘It has come in too quickly’: sense of injustice in Uxbridge on day one of Ulez

  29-08-2023 14:54 via theguardian.com
  
  Aggrieved residents in west London say ordinary motorists – rather than big airlines – are paying price of clean air schemeIn the pedestrianised centre of Uxbridge, there was not a car to be seen. But the people in the leafy outer London constituency had plenty to say about vehicles as the ultra-low emission zone extension came into force on Tuesday.The borough of Hillingdon, which includes Uxbridge, is one of the outer London areas to which the pollution-busting scheme has been exte
  
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• ‘There’s nowhere to go’: a family made homeless in the UK housing crisis

  29-08-2023 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Colin and Gemma Booth and their children are among more than 100,000 families in temporary accommodation in EnglandWhen Colin and Gemma Booth were told a little over a year ago they would have to find somewhere else to live after the owner of the flat they rented in Ventnor on the Isle of Wight died, they didn’t panic.“We thought it was a push to find a bigger place,” says Gemma, as Quinton, eight, Phoenix, seven, Amity, three, and Oberon, 22 months, vie for attention around he
  
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• It’s Ulez day, and to those who would thwart it I say: people are dying, this will save lives | Jenny Jones

  29-08-2023 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Amid the culture war bickering and rightwing campaigns, it’s time to remember why this move is practical, popular and essentialOn this day, Ulez day – after all the misrepresentations and smothering of the concept by toxic, opportunistic politicians – there are basic facts that bear repeating. When people are breathing in polluted air, doing nothing about cleaning it up means that people will die prematurely. The connection between dirty air and asthma, strokes, Alzheimer&rsquo
  
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• My mother is in a care home but a mobile firm is pursuing her for a debt

  29-08-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  She had not used her phone for years, and we have tried to end her old rolling contract since JanuaryMy mother has Alzheimer’s and has gone into a care home but I am struggling to cancel her old mobile phone contract, and we are now being chased by a debt recovery company.She had a rolling contract with iD Mobile for £5 a month but had not used it for a long time. The last message I received was in 2018. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Be flexible, imaginative and brave’: experts give career advice for an AI world

  29-08-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Artificial intelligence is on track to shake up work. So what should the next generation of workers be trying to pursue?Teenagers deciding their future this year have a lot to contend with. In England, those who sat their A-levels suffered the biggest results drop on record while the top grades in GCSEs also fell. And now they face the question: will the career I choose to pursue even exist by the time I enter the workforce?Artificial intelligence has hit the mainstream with the popularity of ge
  
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• UK food prices as big a concern for consumers as energy bills, Which? finds

  29-08-2023 07:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Pace of food inflation continued to slow in August, data shows, but trust in supermarket sector at decade-lowThe rate at which food prices are rising has continued to slow but stubbornly high grocery prices mean the cost of the weekly shop is now as big a concern as energy bills, according to research.Food inflation fell from 13.4% in the year to July to 11.5% in August, according to data published on Tuesday by the British Retail Consortium. This helped bring overall shop price inflation down f
  
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• State pension could rise to £11,500 a year as Rishi Sunak ‘sticks to triple lock pledge’

  29-08-2023 06:00 via express.co.uk
  
  Rishi Sunak has reiterated his support for the state pension triple lock in a "huge sigh of relief" for older Britons.
  
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