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• ISA returns could pay for your summer holiday - especially this type of account

  03-07-2024 19:14 via express.co.uk
  
  Some ISAs have yielded more than £1,000 in interest in one year.
  
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• British Gas, EOn, EDF, OVO and Octopus customers with smart meters told ‘backdate’ reading

  03-07-2024 17:30 via express.co.uk
  
  Gas and electricity customers with the likes of British Gas, EDF, OVO, Octopus and E.On can submit a backdated reading before Thursday
  
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• NS&I explains 'bonus' Premium Bonds perk when investing for prizes

  03-07-2024 17:26 via express.co.uk
  
  NS&I Premium Bond savers have the opportunity to win up to £1 million every month, and there are ways to boost those chances.
  
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• Martin Lewis says credit card option could save you thousands of pounds

  03-07-2024 17:24 via express.co.uk
  
  A 0% balance transfer could be used to pay off the debts on an old credit card with no interest for a period of time, saving you thousands of pounds
  
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• Martin Lewis explains Lifetime ISA savings account that pays 25% bonus

  03-07-2024 17:22 via express.co.uk
  
  Money Saving Expert founder Martin Lewis has explained that many high street banks and building societies don't offer Lifetime ISAs for a 'very simple reason'
  
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• Martin Lewis warns his 'perfect' saving method is 'not for most people'

  03-07-2024 16:18 via express.co.uk
  
  Money Saving Expert Martin Lewis has shared his ultimate saving strategy, but admitted that it's only for those who are willing to "be constantly on top of it"
  
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• O2 shares five 'essential' steps to protect your details as phone theft rockets

  03-07-2024 16:03 via express.co.uk
  
  Phone theft soared to "record levels" last year, increasing by 20 percent.
  
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• Morrisons customers can get free food by doing one simple thing at supermarket

  03-07-2024 15:10 via express.co.uk
  
  The initiative follows on from previous campaigns in 2022 and 2023 which saw Morrisons and Heinz feed tens of thousands of customers.
  
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• Tell us: do you have an outstanding UK university student loan you are struggling to pay off?

  03-07-2024 14:15
  
  We’d like to hear from people who have taken out a loan to cover university tuition fees or student maintenance loans in the UK, and how this is affecting themWe’d like to hear from people who have taken out a student finance loan in the UK to cover university tuition fees or living costs, and how this is affecting them.Whether you have already been repaying your student loan for years, or have just begun, or are yet to start repaying it, we’re interested to hear how this debt
  
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• Labour’s housing policies have already been tried – and have failed. Here is the radical solution | Richard Sennett

  03-07-2024 13:00
  
  Building on brownfield sites is often a social nightmare and new towns take years to bed in, but there is a simpler wayMy heart sank when I read the Labour manifesto on housing. A litany of proven past failures is presented as the shining future. For instance, the party wants to build high-density housing on brownfield sites – which has meant erecting tower blocks set in open spaces. This kind of housing has proved a social nightmare outside cities as various as Paris and Seoul; elderly pe
  
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• Flip your phone, donate your dongle: how to bring new life to unwanted tech – and why you should do it

  03-07-2024 12:24
  
  When you finally get round to having a clearout, rather than binning your old gadgets, pass them on to people in need – and help bridge the digital divideMost of us have a drawer of shame somewhere at home – a dusty cavern full of outdated mobiles, tablets, dongles and doodads that were once our pride and joy. It seems wasteful to throw them out, yet realistically we know they’ll never “come in useful one day”.If we did let go of them, our old devices that can have
  
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• ‘I was isolated and couldn’t communicate’: digital exclusion in numbers

  03-07-2024 12:21
  
  From finances to loneliness, being digitally disconnected can have far-reaching consequencesIn today’s digital society, connectivity is at the heart of almost all that we do. Being online aids financial management, facilitates social connections, provides access to work and education, and can help keep us healthy and well.More than one in three Brits say being connected is top of their list of essentials.Brits complete an average of 90 tasks online every day.Nine in 10 jobs are advertised
  
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• Tory wipeout bingo: online sellers cash in with election games and wallcharts

  03-07-2024 12:00
  
  Games allow players to rack up points for ‘Portillo moments’ and D:Ream plays as Labour landslide projectedEyes down for a full house on Thursday night: a “Portillo moment” at this election could cause viewers across the country to leap out of their seats crying “Bingo!” as a range of games and wallcharts have been released designed to celebrate a potential Conservative wipeout.Merchandise available on Etsy includes a Tory 2024 Meltdown Wallchart, which gives
  
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• Treasure hunters: the enthralling, emotional inside story of a house clearance

  03-07-2024 11:00
  
  They never know what they will find – from fleas to Picassos to Soviet missiles beneath the stairs. But what they do is crucial and catharticA soup of stuff sits on the desk in front of me: remote controls, spectacles, a fly swatter, a medication box, a pebble paperweight inscribed with the owner’s name. Even false teeth, lying where they were discarded. This is personal yet familiar clutter: we all have our own version.I am in the front bedroom turned office and music studio of a st
  
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• Collapse of UK firm Small World means vital money transfers are not arriving

  03-07-2024 09:00
  
  People in developing countries are particularly affected after the business stopped processing transactionsThousands of people in developing countries have been left waiting for vital payments that many rely on to live after the Small World money transfer service collapsed.The company, part of LCC Trans-Sending, which allowed users to send cash for pickup collection in more than 170 countries, ceased trading on 10 June. Continue reading...
  
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• Sparks fly as M&S says no to a plastic loyalty card

  03-07-2024 08:00
  
  At first it told me you needed an email or smartphone to access a Sparks card – but you don’tAfter my grandfather’s death, my 87-year-old grandmother moved into a retirement home. She is happy there and one of the best things is the nearby Marks & Spencer food hall.However, when I tried to sign her up for a Sparks card, so she can access any discounts and deals, we were told she needed an email and a smartphone. It no longer issues paper or cards. To my mind this is digital
  
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• Private rents in Great Britain hit record high, data shows

  03-07-2024 01:01
  Rightmove calls on new government to prioritise sector as rents outside London climb 7% in a yearAverage private rents in Great Britain have climbed to record highs, prompting a call for the next government to prioritise measures to help create an extra 120,000 rental properties.Data shows that the typical advertised rent outside London reached a record £1,316 a calendar month in May, the property website Rightmove said. The figure for London was £2,652 a month – almost three t
  
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