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• The Guardian view on a new deal for travel in Europe: bring back student exchanges | Editorial

  20-04-2025 19:25 via theguardian.com
  
  The EU is expected to push for special youth visas at next month’s summit. Sir Keir Starmer should say yesStrong hints that a rebranded “youth opportunity scheme” will top the EU’s wishlist at next month’s EU-UK summit are good news for anyone who regrets the diminished travel opportunities that were one result of Brexit. Rising expectations of new European train routes – possibly including direct trains from London to Italy – can only add to the appeal
  
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• Heat pump installation needn’t be problematic | Letters

  20-04-2025 18:27 via theguardian.com
  
  Readers respond to a letter by Dr Kirstine Oswald and urge people not to be deterred by paperwork and potential stressLike Dr Kirstine Oswald (Letters, 14 April), I had a heat pump installed last year. I needed a new boiler and wanted to be as environmentally friendly as I could. I have had solar panels for some years, so I had a battery installed along with the heat pump. I agree it is a very expensive process, and I am unlikely to reap long-term benefits, as I’m already 81. However, I do
  
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• State pension age countdown for everyone born after 1960

  20-04-2025 18:04 via express.co.uk
  
  Those born after 1960 begin the countdown for their state pensions as the finish line draws nearer.
  
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• Why the UK’s electricity costs are so high – and what can be done about it

  20-04-2025 16:01 via theguardian.com
  
  From nationalising gas plants to boosting renewables, how soaring prices could be tackledOne of Labour’s key election promises was to cut energy bills by £300 a year by 2030 while making Britain a “clean energy superpower”.The job is already halfway complete: renewable energy made up more than half the UK’s electricity for the first time last year. So why does Britain continue to have one of the most expensive electricity markets in the world? Industrial users compl
  
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• Cost of living alert - one in five would struggle to fund £850 shock bill

  20-04-2025 15:49 via express.co.uk
  A major survey from the Office for National Statistics lays bare the top issues keeping the nation awake at night
  
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• British firms urged to hold video or in-person interviews amid North Korea job scam

  20-04-2025 12:48 via theguardian.com
  Google intelligence report finds UK is a particular target of IT worker ploy that sends wages to Kim Jong Un’s stateBritish companies are being urged to carry out job interviews for IT workers on video or in person to head off the threat of giving jobs to fake North Korean employees.The warning was made after analysts said that the UK had become a prime target for hoax IT workers deployed by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. They are typically hired to work remotely, enablin
  
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• Martin Lewis warns millions will 'pay more tax' in Rachel Reeves reform plan

  20-04-2025 12:47 via express.co.uk
  The Money-Saving Expert shared one urgent action every ISA holder should do ASAP
  
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• HMRC sends letters for 'first time in decade' to people earning more than £1k from savings

  20-04-2025 11:20 via express.co.uk
  Thousands are receiving unexpected tax bills from the HMRC for the 'first time' in more than a decade.
  
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• ‘We just go to the park’: making the most of Easter in a child-poverty hotspot

  20-04-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  In Manningham in Bradford 72% of children live below the poverty line. The national average is 22%• ‘The whole policy is wrong’: rebellion among Labour MPs grows over £5bn benefits cutWhile some British children will be going on holiday, playing with ­high-end games consoles or ­spending a week at a holiday club, for many ­children the Easter break is ­somewhat different.Manningham in Bradford has the second highest rate of child poverty in the UK, with nea
  
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• ‘The whole policy is wrong’: rebellion among Labour MPs grows over £5bn benefits cut

  20-04-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Dozens of MPs are angry at their party, despite frantic efforts by whips and government ministers to assuage them• ‘We just go to the park’: making the most of Easter in a child-poverty hotspotLabour MPs opposed to the government’s massive £5bn of benefit cuts say they will refuse to support legislation to implement them, even if more money is offered by ministers to alleviate child poverty in an attempt to win them over.Legislation will be introduced to the House of
  
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