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• UK millennials: have you recently moved back in with your parents?

  03-05-2024 16:08
  
  We would like to hear from adults in the UK who have recently had to move in with their parentsWe would like to hear from adults in the UK between the ages 28-42 who have recently had to move in with their parents. Why did you make the move? How has the experience been? Tell us all about it below. Continue reading...
  
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• Where have all the wine bargains gone? | Fiona Beckett on drink

  03-05-2024 15:00
  
  Value for money is harder to find these days, but here are a few pointersWhile we all hunker down in the winter, these warmer days and lighter nights are an invitation to be more sociable, and to just drop in on family and friends, outstay our welcome and drink all their wine. Which used to be OK(ish) when a decent bottle of wine cost between £5 and £10, but is less acceptable now when, unless it’s on special offer, it will more often than not set you back more than £10.N
  
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• Train strikes and traffic jams: UK travellers face delays in coming days

  03-05-2024 14:46
  
  Planned works by Network Rail will force more people on to the roads to join bank holiday getaway, with rail strikes to follow the week afterBank holiday getaway traffic jams will signal the start of a bumpy 10 days on Britain’s roads and railways, as a rainy early May is peppered with engineering works and train drivers’ strikes.Motoring organisations were expecting late Friday afternoon to bring the longest delays on roads, particularly those heading to the south-west from London.
  
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• UK tenants should have ‘right to garden’, leading horticulturist says

  03-05-2024 14:00
  
  Jason Williams, known as the cloud gardener, is campaigning for green spaces in new builds and rights for tenants to grow plantsDevelopers and landlords should give tenants a “right to garden”, a leading horticulturist has said as he campaigns for more green spaces in new-build homes.To inspire those who live in homes without gardens, Jason Williams worked with students to create balcony gardens for the Royal Horticultural Society urban show, held this month in Manchester, to demonst
  
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• ‘Turn the building off and on’: social media schadenfreude over Co-op Live arena

  03-05-2024 13:58
  
  Failure of Manchester venue to open has angered those who paid for travel and hotels for cancelled eventsThe repeated failure of the new Co-op live venue to open in Manchester has led to shows being cancelled at the last moment, gigs rescheduled, and has caused huge inconvenience to people who had booked non-refundable travel and hotels to enjoy events they had been looking forward to.It has, of course, though, allowed the British public to also enjoy one of its greatest pastimes – hilario
  
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• ‘It’s like winning the lottery’: the mobile home owners buying the land they live on

  03-05-2024 13:00
  
  Residents of manufactured housing parks typically own their homes – but not the parks themselves, which can be incredibly lucrative. Now some residents are forming cooperatives, and taking controlThis story is co-published with the Lever, a reader-supported investigative news organizationBev Adrian, a retired career placement counselor for people with disabilities, lives in Woodlawn Terrace, a mobile home park just outside Minneapolis, Minnesota. The nearby streets are full of bustling loc
  
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• You be the judge: should my fiance agree to opening a joint account?

  03-05-2024 09:00
  
  Jana thinks joint banking will make paying for childcare easier, but Mikey likes to keep finances separate. You decide who is on the money
  More money disputes where you are the judge“It’s like I’m the sole carer on a personal and emotional level, as well as financial Continue reading...
  
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• From joint accounts to wealthier friends – why is money so hard to talk about?

  03-05-2024 09:00
  
  Money is always the elephant in the room, and can be even harder to talk about than sex – but we can all benefit from a frank conversation, says Annalisa Barbieri, kicking off our You be the judge money specialThe one item you will never see in a currency exchange table is what money so often stands in for. It can take the place of things like love, thought, safety, attention or fairness. And the inverse is also true; you often don’t need to spend a lot of money to mak
  
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• Remote coastal homes for sale in Great Britain – in pictures

  03-05-2024 08:00
  
  From a cottage built into sand dunes with its own ‘stargazing room’ to an eco cabin-style home in a walker’s paradise Continue reading...
  
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