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• It’s all cisterns go for the modern home | Brief letters

  05-09-2024 19:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Kevin McCloud | Book lice | Heart symbols | Ofsted gradings | Medicinal properties of GuinnessAs one of three occupants, all well over pensionable age, of a house with four toilets, I can tell Kevin McCloud that when he gets to our age, he won’t consider always being able to get to an unoccupied loo a bugbear (Report, 3 September).
  Mike Lowcock
  Sandbach, Cheshire • “Why do people judge the status of a house by how many toilets you can offer your guests?” asks Kevin McCloud
  
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• Oasis: new Wembley dates, how to get tickets and enter ballot

  05-09-2024 18:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Band to play extra shows in London after fans lost out to costly dynamic pricing Oasis have announced two more dates for gigs at Wembley Stadium because of “phenomenal demand”, providing fans who missed out on the first round of tickets with some hope of getting one this time. The band has promised to improve the selling process, after many people were left frustrated and angry at the long virtual queues and sky-rocketing dynamic pricing when tickets for the first set of gigs went on
  
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• UK pump prices at three-year low as fuel duty hike looms

  05-09-2024 14:09 via theguardian.com
  Labour expected to roll back Conservatives’ 5p duty cut in the autumn statement in first increase since 2011Petrol and diesel pump prices in the UK have fallen to their lowest levels in nearly three years, but motorists should expect a first rise in fuel duty for 14 years in next month’s autumn statement.According to the AA, the average price at petrol pumps dropped to 139.5p a litre on Wednesday for the first time since October 2021, four months before Russia’s invasion of Ukr
  
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• Our agreed KLM flight ticket price took off, disappeared and cost us £118

  05-09-2024 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  We were told it was all down to ‘dynamic pricing’ but what we had signed up to was alteredI booked a one-way flight for my family from Amsterdam to Bristol with KLM Cityhopper. The agreed fares were £71.30 each, including four seat reservations (£37.60). I paid for a hold bag (£25.70), bringing the total to £310.90.A few days later, I checked my bank statement and noticed I had been charged £428.90, a difference of £118. The “My Trip” s
  
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• Labour’s decision to cut winter fuel payments is mean and politically inept | Larry Elliott

  05-09-2024 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Means-testing will hit up to 2 million people. Rachel Reeves would be wise to admit she was wrongIt is always a sign that politicians are rattled when they start coming up with ludicrous explanations for ill thought-through decisions that stir up serious opposition. And you don’t get much more ludicrous than Lucy Powell’s claim that the government was forced into emergency spending cuts because of the risk of a run on the pound. Fear of a backlash from the City was – according
  
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