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• The Guardian view on City deregulation: it would be a dangerous step backward | Editorial

  30-12-2024 19:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Relaxing financial rules risks undermining stability, ignoring post-crash lessons and prioritising short-term gains over the long-term health of the economyRachel Reeves’s enthusiasm for the City of London – the “crown jewel in our economy” – raises concerns. Economists were worried enough to publicly warn her this month that liberalising financial sector regulations could undermine the government’s efforts to grow the economy, posing “particular risks t
  
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• And the UK winners of the 2024 awards for appalling customer service are …

  30-12-2024 11:00
  
  Reflecting on a year of unfair decisions and shoddy treatment, we put the worst-offending firms on the podiumFor years I have lived a lie. I have lambasted corporate Britain for letting the populace down. I’ve self-righteously blamed airlines for leaving passengers grounded, I’ve hounded energy firms for slugging pensioners with invented bills and exposed councils and insurers for pushing households into homelessness. These last 12 months it’s dawned on me that my ire has been
  
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• Stoke heads UK list of biggest annual house price growth, says Halifax

  30-12-2024 10:03
  
  Jump of 17.2% in 12 months to September for city, while Huddersfield had largest declineStoke-on-Trent experienced the biggest annual house price growth in the UK, while Huddersfield had the biggest decline, according to the mortgage lender Halifax.Average house prices in the Staffordshire city jumped by 17.2% or £33,000 in the 12 months to September, to £227,002 as buyers sought more affordable options against a backdrop of high mortgage costs.Stoke-on-Trent £227,002 +17.2 %Sl
  
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• My sibling and I are Dad’s executors … but we’ve fallen out badly

  30-12-2024 09:00
  
  He left £60,000 in an account, and now it’s stuck there because they won’t engage with me over the administration of the estateMy father died with a Barclays account balance of over £60,000. My sibling and I were joint executors. The money in the estate was to be divided equally between us and the rest of our siblings.Unfortunately, the relationship between my sibling and me has broken down and they are not engaging with me, or the administration of the estate. Continue r
  
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• UK employers ‘risk losing good people’ without policies on infertility, say managers

  30-12-2024 06:00
  Survey by Chartered Management Institute finds only 19% of companies have a policy in place‘Exhaustive, expensive and soul-destroying’: one NHS worker’s infertility journeyEmployers should have formal policies in place to help workers who are undergoing fertility treatment, the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) has said, warning that businesses are increasingly losing talented people by failing to support them.With NHS data showing that one in every seven couples have diffic
  
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• The rollercoaster king: the man behind the UK’s fastest thrill-ride – podcast

  30-12-2024 06:00 via theguardian.com
  John Burton was just 27 when he was put in charge of creating Thorpe Park’s biggest-ever project. Once too scared to go on rides himself, how did he become the architect of so many daredevils’ dreams? By Tom Lamont Continue reading...
  
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