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• State pensioners born in these years get instant £100 Winter Fuel Payment rise

  01-03-2025 19:26 via express.co.uk
  
  State pensioners born in these years can get an extra £100 in their winter fuel payment this winter if they're eligible.
  
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• JP Morgan’s ‘sustainable’ funds invested £200m in mining giant Glencore

  01-03-2025 19:00
  
  Backing of Glencore angers campaigners who have highlighted firm’s environmental breaches in South AfricaOne of the world’s biggest banks, JP Morgan, has promoted ­environmental and “sustainable” funds to customers which have invested more than £200m in the mining giant Glencore, it can be revealed.Ethical investing has become big business for JP Morgan and other financial giants, with worldwide “sustainable” investing expected to surpass $40tn by 20
  
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• Residents trapped with service charges of up to £8,000 a year threaten legal action against government

  01-03-2025 17:59 via theguardian.com
  
  Owners of homes marketed by housing associations as ‘affordable’ are planning a challenge as service costs spiral• ‘There is no way I can pay’: residents despair of steep costs and ‘poor door’Residents trapped in properties marketed as “affordable” are planning legal action against the government after being hit with service charges of up to £8,000 a year.Shared-ownership homes are designed to allow people to get on the property ladder,
  
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• ‘The grapes won’t wait’: Lebanese winemakers fight to survive as war rages

  01-03-2025 17:00
  
  Owners of vineyards in the Bekaa valley are focused more on Israeli air strikes than this year’s vintage. How are these family-run businesses coping?In September Elias Maalouf and his father were sitting in Chateau Rayak, the family winery in the Bekaa valley in Lebanon, when they decided to head home for a lunch break. Five minutes later an Israeli jet dropped a bomb on a house across the street, crushing the three-storey building and destroying much of the winery.“If we hadn’
  
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• It might be a small consolation, but Elon Musk is getting poorer by the day | John Naughton

  01-03-2025 17:00
  
  As his goons root through the innards of the US government, Tesla sales are plummeting, the cars are being defaced and owners are ashamedExtreme wealth has always played a role in democracies. Money has always talked, especially in the US. Years ago, Lawrence Lessig, the great legal scholar, calculated that most of the campaign funding for members of Congress and aspiring politicians came from one-twentieth of the richest 1% of Americans – about 150,000 people. This is about the same numbe
  
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• Former Barclays boss gambles on courtroom battle over ties to Epstein

  01-03-2025 17:00
  
  Next week Jes Staley will challenge his ban from the City in a case that will reveal his conversations with the disgraced financierFormer Barclays chief executive Jes Staley is about to take a major risk.Nearly two and a half years after he was banned from the City for allegedly lying about the extent of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, the former banking boss is hoping to convince judges to overturn the reputation-shattering ruling. Continue reading...
  
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• Nationwide set to give £100 bonuses as members urged to act quickly

  01-03-2025 16:47 via express.co.uk
  
  The building society has in recent years issued what it calls a 'fairer share' payment to millions of members.
  
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• HMRC explains pension rule as people may be owed cash

  01-03-2025 16:22 via express.co.uk
  
  People can currently start to draw from their private pensions when they turn 55
  
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• James Bond nightclubs, vodka, aftershave: 007 writer on the spy’s future with Amazon

  01-03-2025 14:27
  
  As the Bond franchise heads to the online giant, thriller author William Boyd foresees a slew of spin-offs and says AI is not a threat to human screenwritersAmong the people best placed to predict how any James Bond of the future might look is a British writer with a strong feel for spies and for spying. William Boyd has been drawn back to the terrain repeatedly in his books. What’s more, he wrote his own official Bond novel, Solo, in 2013.Now Amazon has picked up the rights to the charact
  
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• Jeff Bezos takes one small step for feminism and social progress, and one giant leap for self-publicity | Sarah Manavis

  01-03-2025 14:00
  
  The first all-female private flight into space funded by the Amazon tycoon’s Blue Origin company has little to do with female empowerment and a lot to do with PR A pop star, a TV host and a billionaire’s fiancée walk into a private rocket ship. The pop star turns to the others and asks: “Is this what feminism looks like?” According to the space technology company Blue Origin, owned and founded by the Amazon tycoon Jeff Bezos, the answer seems to be a resounding yes
  
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• Five years on from the pandemic, how has Covid changed our world? | The panel

  01-03-2025 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  We asked a group of experts on politics, trade, literature, psychology, work and more: what has been the most surprising or shocking consequence of Covid-19 in your field?Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Horrendous’: the ‘ridiculously common’ lies people tell on CVs, and what happens when they are discovered

  01-03-2025 09:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Fake reasons for leaving jobs, manipulated dates and inflated titles among most frequent falsehoodsIn 28 years of recruitment, Matt Collingwood has witnessed some “very awkward” job interviews. Like the candidate whose CV falsely boasted of a second-dan black belt in taekwondo, only to discover his interviewer was an aficionado of the sport. “An interview that should have been an hour lasted 15 minutes,” said Collingwood, the managing director of the IT recruitment agency
  
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• Cash Isas: pressure grows against rumoured move to £4,000 allowance

  01-03-2025 08:00
  
  Research shows strong support for keeping tax-free accounts in their current form with £20,000 annual limitCash Isa providers fail to offer savers benefits of more flexible rulesA campaign to “save” cash Isas gathered pace this week, with research published showing strong support for the savings accounts.However, data was also issued that investment firms said showed UK savers were “paying the price” for playing it safe because putting money into the stock market ca
  
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• Strangest supermarket substitutions include dog treats instead of steak, poll shows

  01-03-2025 07:00
  
  Almost a third of online deliveries from grocers such as Tesco and Aldi included a swapped item, says Which?Sanitary towels substituted for sandwich wraps, fish steaks in the place of lemon cupcakes and beef dog treats instead of steak.These are just some of the “completely inappropriate” supermarket substitutions reported by online shoppers in a poll. Continue reading...
  
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