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• Nicola Jennings on the looming US tariff threat – cartoon

  30-03-2025 17:27
  
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• Anti-scam campaign groups urge UK police forces to get tougher on fraudsters

  30-03-2025 15:00
  
  Campaigners say scammers are claiming millions from victims in ‘a penalty-free crime’Anti-scam campaign groups are calling for police forces to be much tougher on fraudsters, who they claim are scamming millions from victims in “a penalty-free crime”.The pleas are being made just days after the UK government announced it is working on an “expanded” fraud strategy as part of a “robust response” to surging reported fraud rates, which rose by 19% last
  
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• My disabled mother was left stranded at Hamburg airport

  30-03-2025 09:30 via theguardian.com
  
  How could airport and airline staff miss an elderly woman with hearing problems in a wheelchair, left sitting there after the gate emptied?My disabled 84-year-old mother was due to return to the UK on a Ryanair flight after visiting me in Germany. I had booked ­special assistance to help her on to the plane. After I’d checked her in, assistance staff pushed her wheelchair to the departure gate and told her they would return to help her to her seat on the aircraft once boarding commence
  
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• Prosecution of people who help clients evade tax in UK falls by 75% in five years

  30-03-2025 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Fewer than five criminal cases were brought against those who aid tax dodgers in 2023-24, down from 16 in 2018-19Prosecutions of the enablers of tax evasion have plummeted by at least 75% in the past five years, with fewer than five criminal cases in 2023-2024.The targeting of enablers – anyone who knowingly helps a ­client evade tax – is a central part of HM Revenue and Customs’s (HMRC) strategy to claw back cash owed to the Treasury. Continue reading...
  
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• The poor don’t need Reeves’s austerity. And neither does Britain | William Keegan

  30-03-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  With the economy stagnating, this is the very worst time to depress demand in order to be seen to ‘balance the books’Alas! Were it not for the fact that he was cremated, the great economist John Maynard Keynes would have been turning in his grave at the way the economics of last week’s spring budget – sorry, spring statement – were greeted by most of the media.Of course, the principal culprit was the chancellor of the exchequer, Rachel Reeves. By tying herself to th
  
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• Always roll your clothes! 13 travel packing hacks to save you space and money – according to seasoned travellers

  30-03-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  We asked the experts about keeping luggage as light as possible (and still being ready for anything)• The best travel-size toiletries for your next tripPacking is a fine art. No one wants to lug heavy bags around transport hubs or arrive at the other end to a chaotically stuffed bag full of creased clothes. But we all have our “essentials” to cram in. For some, that’ll be a full skincare routine or a semblance of a wardrobe; for others, it’ll be sports equipment (tho
  
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