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• Rupert Grint ordered to pay £1.8m in taxes after losing legal dispute

  30-11-2024 16:29
  
  Actor known for playing Harry Potter’s Ron Weasley in HMRC legal dispute for second timeThe Harry Potter actor Rupert Grint has been ordered to pay £1.8m in taxes after a legal dispute with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).Grint, best known for playing Ron Weasley in the film franchise, was told to pay the figure in 2019 when HMRC questioned one of his tax returns. Continue reading...
  
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• £174 alert to anyone with a Fire Stick

  30-11-2024 16:22 via express.co.uk
  
  UK households face a £174 charge.
  
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• DWP PIP update as £737 arriving in bank accounts early

  30-11-2024 14:11 via express.co.uk
  
  Personal Independence Payments are paid every four weeks.
  
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• Octopus Energy gives customers automatic £150 off bills

  30-11-2024 13:58 via express.co.uk
  
  Octopus Energy customers can get £150 off their energy bills.
  
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• One in ten Brits embarrassed to admit falling for scams - expert advice to avoid them

  30-11-2024 13:12 via express.co.uk
  
  One in 10 British adults are too embarrassed to admit they've been a victim of a scam, a new survey has revealed, here's how to avoid them
  
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• DWP Pension Credit update as pensioners dealt ‘disastrous’ blow

  30-11-2024 13:05 via express.co.uk
  
  Winter Fuel Payments worth £300 have been cut for thousands of pensioners.
  
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• 30 Secret Santa gifts under £10: fun ideas they’ll actually want

  30-11-2024 13:00
  
  These inexpensive but characterful gifts are perfect for that annual Christmas conundrum• The best Christmas gifts for 2024 Many of us will be familiar with the sinking feeling caused by drawing the name of a colleague you barely know from the Secret Santa hat. You’ve shared little more than pleasantries with them, know nothing of their life outside work and don’t even know how they take their coffee.Then there’s the £10 spend budget, which dramatically limits the gi
  
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• Why parents are avoiding talking about money with their kids and how to change it

  30-11-2024 12:35 via express.co.uk
  
  A new study unveils parents are worried they'll pass on poor financial advice to their children - but experts say there are ways to make it easier
  
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• British Gas giving customers half price electricity for Christmas

  30-11-2024 11:52 via express.co.uk
  
  British Gas customers can get half price electricity this Christmas.
  
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• How do rogue traders get past Checkatrade’s checks?

  30-11-2024 10:42
  
  Website says its tradespeople are ‘guaranteed’, but some customers say they have lost thousands after using itA woman claims she was conned by a convicted criminal, and another householder says he was threatened by a self-styled hitman after hiring traders through the recommendation website Checkatrade.One of the UK’s largest trader marketplaces, Checkatrade promises customers “guaranteed” traders, “rigorous checks” and “recommendations you can rel
  
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• Rachel Reeves’s sums put UK terrifyingly close to disaster – you’ll pay if she’s wrong

  30-11-2024 09:03 via express.co.uk
  
  As a brilliant economist in her own right, chancellor Rachel Reeves clearly has a head for numbers. She's going to need it.
  
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• Frozen pensions abroad: UK war veteran says she lost out on £50,000

  30-11-2024 08:00
  
  Anne Puckridge is among half a million pensioners living abroad missing out on state pension increasesThis weekend, a few weeks before her 100th birthday, a former wartime intelligence officer will set off on a new mission: to meet with the UK pensions minister and persuade her to end an “injustice”.Anne Puckridge is travelling 4,400 miles from her home in Canada to ask the UK government to change rules that campaigners say penalise almost half a million pensioners living overseas an
  
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• State pensioners urged to top up NI as average shortfall is over £725 a year

  30-11-2024 03:04 via express.co.uk
  
  People can currently top up their contributions over an extended period.
  
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• Paint the front door, layer the lighting: interior designers on affordable ways to update your home

  30-11-2024 00:00
  
  From bold makeover to space-saving hack or character retouch – experts reveal how to freshen any roomGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailRefreshing your home doesn’t have to involve a Grand Designs-scale renovation which, predictably, always goes over time and over budget. Small, thoughtful changes can refine your design and transform a room’s atmosphere. Whether it’s introducing a table lamp or swapping out your light switches, these simple updates from experts ca
  
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