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• Chris Riddell on Elon Musk as a Bond villain – cartoon

  10-08-2024 19:00
  The X boss strokes his pet cat, otherwise known as far-right hate• You can order your own copy of this cartoon Continue reading...
  
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• Cinema posters through the decades – in pictures

  10-08-2024 18:00
  
  In the age of streaming, we may not think too deeply about the impact of film posters, but for decades these designs played a vital part in guiding cinemagoers on what to see. In a new book edited by Tony Nourmand, a vast selection of posters spanning the past century offers insight into contemporaneous tastes and styles, showcasing the medium’s eye-catching artistic innovations: glamorous paintings for 1922’s Salomé, scratchy, left-field illustration for 1987’s Withnail
  
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• Big corporations are getting away with overcharging their customers | Phillip Inman

  10-08-2024 18:00
  
  Politicians must acknowledge that companies’ systematic profiteering is pushing household finances over the edgeWe should care more about being overcharged for the things we buy. After three years when UK shop prices have rocketed by about 20%, it is reasonable to examine whether the extra cost is justified and whether the government should have done more to protect us.From the evidence it is clear that in too many cases the extra cost cannot be justified and governments have failed to int
  
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• Pret a Manger deploys body-worn cameras for some staff

  10-08-2024 17:41
  
  Coffee and bakery chain says devices to be worn by managers will ‘only be turned on in specific circumstances’Pret a Manger has become the latest high street staple to deploy body-worn cameras for some of its staff.The coffee and bakery chain began trialling body-worn cameras in a select number of shops in London last month. A Pret spokesperson said this was done as a new safety measure. “These are only being worn by team leaders or managers, and are only turned on in specific
  
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• Don’t trust the inevitability myth touted by the tech determinists | John Naughton

  10-08-2024 17:00
  
  An abandoned Australian ‘experiment’ shows that the public can successfully object to what companies and politicians claim is inevitable progressScratch a digital capitalist and you’ll find a technological determinist – someone who believes that technology drives history. These people see themselves as agents of what Joseph Schumpeter famously described as “creative destruction”. They revel in “moving fast and breaking things” as the Facebook found
  
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• Federal appeals court rules against Biden student debt relief program

  10-08-2024 16:17
  
  The Save plan – a means-tested program – was blocked from further implementation by Republican-appointed judgesA federal appeals court has sided with Republican-controlled states to deliver another setback to Joe Biden’s student loan relief plan designed to reduce monthly payments for millions of lower-income graduates and speed up debt forgiveness for some borrowers.A unanimous, unsigned ruling issued on Friday by three Republican-appointed judges in Missouri blocked further i
  
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• LinkedIn is a mess. Here’s how to fix it | Gene Marks

  10-08-2024 14:31
  
  The networking site one is calling a ‘cesspool’ is riddled with oversharing and lunatics – it’s time for changeIn need of a laugh? Spend an hour or two on the subreddit LinkedInLunatics. Trust me.There’s the financial expert who believes it necessary to share with his friends, clients and community that he enjoys watching porn (in moderation, mind you!). There’s the usual crowd of pundits who use cultural events like the Olympics competitions to teach us life
  
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• ‘Catch of the week’: fisher lands Lego shark lost at sea for 27 years

  10-08-2024 14:07
  
  Man finds rare item from ‘Great Lego Spill of 1997’ on top of his fishing nets after an expedition in CornwallA fisher from Devon has caught a rare Lego shark 27 years after it went missing from a shipping container in the 1990s.The toy is one of 5m pieces lost overboard in the “Great Lego Spill of 1997”, when a freak wave hit a cargo ship called the Tokio Express off the coast of Cornwall. The pieces are still washing up today. Continue reading...
  
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• Hello, goodbye: the rise and decline of the celebrity video-greeting app Cameo

  10-08-2024 14:00
  
  Personalised videos from celebrities such as Elijah Wood were a lockdown hit for a firm once valued at £1bn. Now A-listers have deserted it – though there’s always Nigel FarageIt started, as many things do, with drama in the WhatsApp group. It was 2021, and a loose coalition of my friends and acquaintances was passing the on-again, off-again lockdowns by playing a spectacularly vicious online game called Subterfuge, in which treachery and betrayal are all part of how to play.On
  
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• The mystery of the ‘vanishing’ diamond dealer: fury in the City after multimillion collapse of Vashi

  10-08-2024 13:22
  
  Vashi Domínguez left a trail of financial wreckage and enraged investors in his wake after his London jewellery firm crashed – and now no one can find himFor John Caudwell, the giveaway was the bespoke diamond ring. One of Britain’s wealthiest men had decided to put his investment in a diamond retailer called Vashi to the test with some mystery shopping.“I asked them to design a ring for me. It was terrible,” says the founder of Phones 4u. “They claimed to be
  
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• Minister warns CrossCountry about ‘dire’ service amid reduced timetable

  10-08-2024 11:04
  
  Transport secretary had ‘no choice’ but to approve cuts – but warns she will take further action if improvements not madeThe transport secretary has expressed “serious concern” about railway operator CrossCountry, warning she may take further action amid its ongoing reduction in services.Louise Haigh said she had little choice but to approve the three-month reduced timetable proposed by the train operator, despite describing it as a “dire service”. Conti
  
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• ‘It’s just a rich man’s playground now’: how St Ives became patient zero of British overtourism

  10-08-2024 11:00
  
  The Cornish resort may be the picturebook seaside town but, through a desolate winter and a crowded summer, artists, fishers, visitors and locals reveal a community in danger of losing its soulIn St Ives, herring gulls dive-bomb for ice-cream and rib boats stalk the bay. I am listening to Lizzy, who lives in a van. As a child she lived on the hill in her grandmother’s house. Her grandmother had five bedrooms and six children: that was her estate. When she died, the house was
  
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• Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki dies, aged 56

  10-08-2024 09:47
  
  Wojcicki, one of the most prominent women in tech, had been living with cancer for two yearsSusan Wojcicki, the former YouTube CEO and one of the first Google employees, has died at the age of 56 after two years of living with cancer.Her husband, Dennis Troper, announced the news of her death on Friday.The headline of this article was amended on 10 August 2024 to correct a misspelling of Wojcicki Continue reading...
  
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• Airport parking: ‘I was charged £170 for stopping at a traffic light’

  10-08-2024 09:00
  
  Drivers say they are ‘incredulous’ after receiving ‘absurd’ charges for picking up or dropping off passengersBritain has a new contender for the most ridiculous private motoring “fine”, with a Cardiff man being sent a £170 demand after he stopped at a temporary traffic light near the terminal at Bristol airport.Dave Fitzheslop says he has been left incredulous after being sent a £100 demand – now increased to £170 – for pulling up
  
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• 'I'm a money expert - 6 things to consider before opening NS&I's new Savings Bonds'

  10-08-2024 08:01 via express.co.uk
  
  The two NS&I accounts offer different perks, but may not be the best option for everyone.
  
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• Turn your clutter into cash: Top tips for selling off unwanted goods at sales

  10-08-2024 08:00 via express.co.uk
  
  MoneyMagpie.com gives you the insider knowledge you need to make money from unwanted items in your home.
  
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• M&S sells knickers designed to be worn with stoma, in UK high street first

  10-08-2024 08:00
  Idea was initially mooted by employee of retailer, which worked with Colostomy UK to gain expert insight Marks & Spencer has long been a destination for British women to buy knickers – and, this month, it is an option for even more of them. The retailer is the first high street store to sell knickers designed to be worn with a stoma bag.Available from this weekend from selected stores and online, the knickers use pockets on the inside to accommodate a stoma or multiple stomas to help p
  
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• ‘His rhetoric has made Tesla toxic’: is Elon Musk driving away his target market?

  10-08-2024 08:00
  
  There are signs the billionaire is becoming unpopular with the very demographic group most likely to buy EVsElon Musk has long flirted with rightwing politics, and delights in pushing an image of himself as a contrarian showman. Yet in recent months the billionaire’s political allegiances have started to raise a question for Tesla, the company that he built into the world’s largest electric carmaker: just how far can he go before customers start to abandon his products?The German pha
  
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• UK state pension: ‘thousands more’ may have been underpaid

  10-08-2024 07:00
  New category of widows and widowers on receiving end of DWP errors, says former ministerA new group of people who have been underpaid the state pension appears to have come to light, with “many thousands” potentially left out of pocket.The claim has been made by the former pensions minister Steve Webb, who has been a key player in highlighting official errors that have resulted in thousands of people receiving too little state pension. Continue reading...
  
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• Save money on essentials including broadband, energy bills and council tax

  10-08-2024 07:00 via express.co.uk
  
  Vicky Parry from Money Magpie offers even ways you can save money on crucial expenditures.
  
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• Nationwide offers free dementia clinics at 200 branches

  10-08-2024 07:00
  
  Building society joins forces with Dementia UK to offer guidance on health and money support Nationwide building society is offering free face-to-face dementia clinics at 200 of its branches, giving health and money support to sufferers and their families.The society is funding 30 Dementia UK admiral nurses, specialist staff who will work on the high street and on the charity’s helpline. Continue reading...
  
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• State pensioners to receive automatic £150 payment this winter

  10-08-2024 02:38 via express.co.uk
  
  State Pensioners are in for a financial boost as they're set to automatically receive a free £150 in their accounts with payments being issued across the UK
  
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