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• The best cool boxes and bags in the UK for camping, picnics and festivals

  09-07-2026 11:00
  No more warm beer or sweaty cheese: these are the cool boxes that keep their chill when it matters• The best (and worst) wine coolersWhether you’re heading to a festival or pitching up at a campsite with the whole family, nothing spoils a trip faster than a bottle of sour milk and a warm can of beer. A reliable cool box is your best defence against such disappointments, and today’s models are designed to keep your provisions frosty, long after you’ve lost your phone signal
  
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• Low-e windows keep homes cool … but may set neighbours’ property on fire

  09-07-2026 07:00
  Low-emissivity windows also keep houses warm in winter, but use on bowed glass can have magnifying-glass effectLow-emissivity or low-E window glass is a useful green technology for keeping buildings warm in winter and cool in summer … but a rare side-effect can set the neighbours’ property on fire.The glass is coated with a thin layer of metal or metal oxide which lets visible light through but acts like a mirror in the infrared. Heat from the interior is reflected back in, retainin
  
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• ‘I’m left with a year of nothing’: UK gap year students lose thousands of pounds as tour operator closes

  09-07-2026 07:00
  
  GVI shuts down without refunds for students booked on volunteer programmes with overseas conservation projectsUK students who paid thousands of pounds for summer and gap year placements on overseas conservation projects have lost everything after their eco tour operator shut down.GVI, which offered volunteer and internship placements on wildlife and marine projects across the world, was continuing to advertise trips until it went into liquidation and removed its website on 1 July. Continue readi
  
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• Pet prescriptions could be capped at £21 under proposed vet sector reforms

  09-07-2026 01:01
  Ministers also considering licence requirement and regulator to try to cut bills and increase choice UK vets may have to have a licence and cap prescriptions for pet medicine at £21 under plans being considered by the government.Ministers are also considering establishing a regulator for the veterinary sector, including inspections, a mandatory licensing system and published compliance reports to improve accountability and choice. Every vet practice could need an official operating licence
  
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• Disability benefits system ‘not working’ Timms review finds

  09-07-2026 01:01
  
  Interim report into Pip found process had systematic and deep-rooted problems and required bold and radical overhaulA landmark government review of disability benefits has warned “challenging discussions” remain on how to overhaul and pay for a system it concludes is unfit for purpose and too often leaves vulnerable claimants dehumanised and degraded.The Timms review of the personal independence payment (Pip) concluded the benefit, claimed by nearly 4 million people in England and Wa
  
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