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• HSBC makes major decision on mortgage rates after Halifax move

  03-01-2025 17:57 via express.co.uk
  
  The high street giant has issued new interest rates on fixed rate deals running for two, five and 10 years.
  
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• ‘Astonishing and appalling’: British Gas battles customer anger over energy bill struggles

  03-01-2025 16:00
  
  Complaints ratio for Britain’s biggest energy supplier is almost three times higher than its rival Octopus Energy“It has been both astonishing and appalling in equal measure,” says Jonathan Hattersley, 66, from Cambridgeshire. He is one of thousands of British Gas customers left frustrated by Britain’s biggest energy supplier.The gas and electricity supplier helped its parent company, Centrica, to a profit of £1bn for the first half of the year. But while the FTSE 1
  
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• Meet the young families stuck in their starter homes thanks to the UK housing crisis | Kirsty Major

  03-01-2025 13:00
  
  The arrival of a child is a good a reason as any to upsize, but this is no longer an option for many ‘second steppers’When Ronan and his wife lived as property guardians in Walthamstow, east London, owning a place of their own seemed out of their reach. But in 2018, an opportunity presented itself: a development offering compact one-bedroom flats at a discounted price to people living in the local community.The couple had no plans to start a family and the flat seemed suited to their
  
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• ‘They’ve heard so much wrong information’: Selling heat pumps across Germany’s political divide

  03-01-2025 11:13
  
  Green heating has an image problem, especially where climate-sceptic parties hold sway. Now energy groups are promoting them on grounds of cost, status and energy securityA few dozen people had gathered on the dancefloor of the nightclub in eastern Germany when Stefan Vetter took to the stage, his face chequered by neon lights that bounced off spinning disco balls, and flicked through PowerPoint slides of homeowners and their heaters. “We know that oil and gas are not getting cheaper in fu
  
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• Experience: I paid £55,000 for a beer

  03-01-2025 11:00
  
  When I asked for the receipt, the bartender printed it out and put her hand over her mouthI’m a cricket journalist from Sydney, and in 2019 I was in Manchester to cover the Ashes. After dinner, I stopped for a beer at the Malmaison hotel. I’m pretty fussy about beer and I love an English bitter. I asked the bartender if she had any ales. She offered me a European pilsner, though eventually got me a Deuchars IPA.There were a few cricketers in the bar, so I was
  
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• Homes for sale in remote parts of Britain – in pictures

  03-01-2025 08:00
  
  From a ‘treehouse’ hovering over the Welsh countryside to a farmhouse in a wooded glen surrounded by dense forest in Scotland Continue reading...
  
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• ‘It didn’t come as a surprise’: UK workers on being forced back into the office

  03-01-2025 07:00
  
  Some welcome cuts to hybrid working but others feel less productive and are considering change of job or country• Post-Christmas blues as UK bosses try to turn back clock on hybrid workingChristina says it is a “logistical nightmare” working out the school and nursery runs after being ordered to return to the office for three days a week from January. “It didn’t come as a surprise but it was devastating,” she says.The 34-year-old chartered accountant from Scotl
  
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