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• The Guardian view on Labour’s housing plan: a promising start to addressing an age-old problem | Editorial

  11-10-2023 20:10
  
  Sir Keir Starmer’s talk of ‘bulldozing’ obstacles to development is a refreshing contrast to Rishi Sunak’s cowardly retreat from the challengeThe road that has taken Britain into a housing crisis is paved with broken promises. Governments have pledged action, set targets and talked about new towns, building on brownfield sites, local partnerships, devolution and similar well-intentioned policies. Yet the deficit in available homes – the number that should have been
  
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• NS&I explains how to 'increase chances of winning' Premium Bonds £1million jackpot

  11-10-2023 18:58 via express.co.uk
  
  The two millionaire winners for the month both held the maximum £50,000 in Premium Bonds
  
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• Martin Lewis shares which day to renew car insurance as driver saves £850

  11-10-2023 16:12 via express.co.uk
  
  The Money Saving Expert urged that in insurance "timing is everything".
  
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• Jeremy Hunt warned to slash spending or hike taxes as IMF weighs in on debt

  11-10-2023 16:03 via express.co.uk
  
  The UK Government will need to raise taxes or slash back its spending to bring down its debts, a group has said.
  
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• HSBC UK offers increased interest rate on savings account but deal ends in just days

  11-10-2023 15:13 via express.co.uk
  
  Savers have until 11:59pm on Wednesday, October 18 to claim HSBC's increased interest rate.
  
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• Blow for pensioners’ savings as workers ‘forced’ into early retirement

  11-10-2023 14:36 via express.co.uk
  
  A sizable proportion of retirees are leaving the workforce early which could impact their long-term pension savings plans.
  
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• Bank of England handed interest rate lifeline – but economist pinpoints 'biggest concern'

  11-10-2023 14:24 via express.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: The latest job market findings will be some comfort to the Bank of England with a sustained easing of wage pressures meaning less pressure to hike interest rates again, an expert has said.
  
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• Never mind the French connection. Bedbugs are already at home in Britain, and we must live with them | James Logan

  11-10-2023 14:00
  
  These hardy insects are incredibly good hitchhikers. We can slow their march, but we’ll never entirely eradicate themThe reported outbreak of bedbugs in Paris is hardly surprising. Reports of sightings on the London Underground – so far unsubstantiated, but quickly addressed by Sadiq Khan – are not surprising either. Bedbugs are everywhere. Bedbugs can be found in any city around the world, in any location, from youth hostels to five-star hotels. There are not yet clear numbers
  
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• Waiting list for allotments in England almost doubles in 12 years

  11-10-2023 13:24
  
  There are at least 157,820 outstanding applications to local authorities, and waits of up to 15 yearsThere are few things so quintessentially English as the allotment, but the number of people waiting for a space of their own has almost doubled in the last 12 years.The most recent figures, obtained by independent artists and supported by Greenpeace through freedom of information requests, show there are now at least 157,820 applications sitting on English local authorities’ allotment waiti
  
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• We shouted with joy when the email arrived. Now we have leave to remain in Britain – but can we afford it? | Paul

  11-10-2023 13:00
  
  Chicken, ham, eggs – any protein – has become so expensive, it’s incredible. And then there are all the other things we need
  This article is part of the heat or eat diaries: a series from the frontline of Britain’s cost of living emergencyWe were in Asda – me, my wife and our baby son – when the email arrived telling me the Home Office was giving us leave to remain. They’d refused it at first, and we were appealing, but suddenly they changed their minds:
  
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• Britons may be able to boost Attendance Allowance payments by £134 a month

  11-10-2023 12:39 via express.co.uk
  
  A change in circumstance could deem a person eligible for the higher rate of Attendance Allowance.
  
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• Like Taylor Swift, millions of us dream of packing in the day job. But where do we find our Plan B?

  11-10-2023 12:00
  
  Everyone wants to turn their passion into their profession – or at least a profitable side-hustle. I certainly did. But what if AI can do it better or more cheaply?A comment from Zadie Smith caught my attention this week. Asked whether she had ever considered recording an album (she is known among her friends to be a talented singer), the novelist responded: “I have a dream of having a Café Carlyle residency in New York in my 80s. Just me, in a muumuu, singing jazz standards i
  
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• NatWest increases interest rate on fixed ISA to market-leading 5.65% ‌

  11-10-2023 11:18 via express.co.uk
  
  Cash ISA savings rates have been ramping up in recent weeks and NatWest is currently topping the table for two-year fixes.
  
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• Your next pension statement could make you feel ‘dramatically’ richer - but is it true?

  11-10-2023 11:04 via express.co.uk
  
  Pension savers may be pleasantly surprised when they receive their next statement as it could show their pot is projected to be worth "dramatically" more at retirement than it was just a year ago.
  
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• ‘Repair is the new cool’: how Amsterdam started a fashion revolution

  11-10-2023 10:00
  
  A new project in the Netherlands employs skilful refugees to mend much-loved clothes – and the idea is spreading fastI visit United Repair Centre on a quiet day at the tail end of summer, and there’s not much happening in the suburban streets of west Amsterdam. Inside, however, this bright workshop generates its own buzz. The radio is on, people are popping in and out of the open kitchen for coffee and snacks, chatting over the noise from sewing machines or gathered around the cuttin
  
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• Skipton Building Society launches new low-rate mortgage range with deals from 3.35%

  11-10-2023 09:58 via express.co.uk
  
  Skipton's range of two-year fixed mortgage deals are available to members only and are designed to provide "certainty" for struggling borrowers.
  
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• Car tax mix-up led to us being stranded at the roadside

  11-10-2023 08:00
  
  Our rescue service refused to help us with a flat tyre after it discovered that our vehicle excise duty had expiredMy wife and I hit a pothole while driving home from a day out. It burst a tyre and we called our breakdown service provider, Autonational Rescue. The agent informed us that our vehicle’s excise duty had expired 10 days before and that I would need to renew it before they could attend. We have not received a renewal letter from the DVLA and, as we no longer have tax discs, we r
  
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• Keir Starmer’s plan to rebuild Britain - podcast

  11-10-2023 04:00
  
  Keir Starmer promises to bring in a new era of ‘rebuilding’, ‘renewal’ and even ‘healing’ after 13 years of Conservative rule. Kiran Stacey reports on the Labour leader’s keynote conference speechAt a party conference overshadowed by events in Israel and Gaza, Keir Starmer took to the stage in Liverpool ready to set out his argument for leading the country. He was ambushed by a glitter-throwing protester before he had begun, but shrugged it off with a li
  
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• Living in privately rented homes linked to faster biological ageing, study finds

  11-10-2023 00:30
  
  Researchers’ analysis of DNA suggests housing circumstances ‘get under the skin’ and are associated with significant health consequencesLiving in a privately rented home is linked to more rapid biological ageing, according to researchers who tested DNA and found the tenure is associated with twice the ageing effect of obesity and half that of smoking.The peer-reviewed study of 1,420 UK householders found housing circumstances can “get under the skin” with significan
  
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