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• DRML Miner Unveils Zero-Cost XRP Cloud Mining Platform

  24-06-2025 23:18 via globenewswire.com
  
  Innovative AI-Optimized Contracts Offer Daily Crypto Rewards, Referral Bonuses, and Secure Passive Income – Now LiveLONDON, UK, June24, 2025(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- DRML Miner, a global leader in eco-conscious cryptocurrency mining, has officially launched its highly anticipated zero-cost XRP cloud mining platform, ushering in a new era of accessible, automated, and AI-enhanced digital asset earnings. Tailored for both seasoned investors and crypto newcomers, the platform provides users with da
  
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• Nationwide 'don't miss out' alert ahead of £50 free cash deadline

  28-12-2025 04:20 via express.co.uk
  Nationwide 'don't miss out' alert ahead of £50 free cash deadline
  
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• Check your change for £2 coin that could be worth £300

  28-12-2025 04:19 via express.co.uk
  The coin has been referred to as the 'coin of the year'
  
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• HMRC January deadline as people could be fined £100 or more

  28-12-2025 03:28 via express.co.uk
  HMRC has issued a reminder to millions of Brits
  
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• Gold fever set to rage on into 2026 as bullion and silver smash records

  28-12-2025 02:49 via express.co.uk
  The renewed optimism comes as investors pile into so-called safe havens
  
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• HMRC rules can boost your tax-free allowance to £13,006

  27-12-2025 16:00 via express.co.uk
  HMRC's Tax-Free Personal Allowance can effectively reach £13,006 through little-known tax reliefs including work expenses
  
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• Mortgage hunters poised for 2026 gift as rates set to 'drop below 3%'

  27-12-2025 13:40 via express.co.uk
  It comes after inflation fell more sharply than expected and a price war looms
  
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• Labour plotting to ditch Rachel Reeves – and install a lunatic NOBODY would vote for

  27-12-2025 09:30 via express.co.uk
  The Chancellor is living on borrowed time. She surely can't survive 2026.
  
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• Martin Lewis urges ‘do this now’ with £1

  26-12-2025 15:18 via express.co.uk
  The financial guru is advising people of a certain age to act quickly.
  
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• ‘A PR stunt’: Post Office scandal victims dismiss plans for museum exhibition

  26-12-2025 15:00 via theguardian.com
  Many victims and families advising inquiry’s legacy project are highly suspicious of idea of Postal Museum exhibitionVictims of the Post Office Horizon scandal have dismissed a planned exhibition on the affair at the Postal Museum as a PR stunt that they are refusing to endorse.The inquiry into the wrongful convictions of hundreds of post office operators announced in September that it was working with the Postal Museum as part of a legacy project to commemorate the devastating impact of t
  
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• AI boom adds more than half a trillion dollars to wealth of US tech barons in 2025

  26-12-2025 14:42 via theguardian.com
  Elon Musk’s net worth increased by nearly 50% to $645bn with founders of Google and Amazon also seeing huge wealth gainsA stock market boom in artificial intelligence companies has added more than half a trillion dollars to the wealth of America’s tech barons in the past year, data shows.The top 10 US founders and bosses of some of the world’s largest technology companies saw their finances swell to nearly $2.5tn, up from $1.9tn, in the year to Christmas Eve, according to figur
  
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• 55 Lloyds and Halifax branches already earmarked to close in 2026 - full list

  26-12-2025 14:40 via express.co.uk
  Lloyds Banking Group has confirmed 40 Lloyds and 15 Halifax branches will close next year in a new blow to the high street
  
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• US voters linking climate crisis to rising bills despite Trump’s ‘green scam’ claims

  26-12-2025 13:30 via theguardian.com
  New polling shows 65% of registered US voters believe global heating is affecting cost of livingMost Americans now connect the worsening climate crisis with their cost of living pressures, with clear majorities also disagreeing with moves by the Trump administration to gut climate research and halt windfarms, new polling has found.About 65% of registered voters in the US think that global heating is affecting the cost of living, according to the polling by Yale University. Continue reading...
  
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• HMRC £2,200 alert to people born between two very specific dates

  26-12-2025 13:01 via express.co.uk
  HM Revenue and Customs has issued a fresh call for people to check if they have a Child Trust Fund, with around 430,000 young adults potentially missing out on an average of £2,000
  
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• ‘Not the charmed industry it once was’: can Hollywood find its comeback story?

  26-12-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  After the writers’ and actors’ strikes, the pandemic, and structural shifts in technology, LA’s trying to find its footing in a changed industryThe veteran Hollywood cinematographer Bruce McCleery knows all about Los Angeles’s struggles to maintain its dominance in the entertainment industry, because for most of the past 16 years he has lived on the road, never short of work but unable to land a major job within striking distance of his home and family in southern Califor
  
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• Changing channels: TV streaming at turning point as most UK subscribers opt for ads

  26-12-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  Viewers hoping to cut bills driving switch from once-normal advert-free subscriptions now charging a premiumThe number of UK streaming subscribers on packages that include commercials has overtaken those on higher-priced ad-free plans for the first time, in a milestone for British television.The change marks a turning point for an industry that used to reject the idea of interrupting viewing with ad breaks as a relic of broadcast TV – a view championed in particular by Netflix.AppleSkyTesc
  
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• The Dominik Diamond alternative game of the year awards 2025

  26-12-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  There was no shortage of fun and video games in the Diamond household in the last 12 months. Which ones did we play so much our thumbs hurt? And which one saved my soul? Let the ceremony begin …
  • The 20 best video games of 2025So, how was 2025 for your household? Was it really all as good as you pretended it was on Facebook? Full of A-grades for the kids and riotous themed fancy dress birthday parties for the grownups? Or was it a sea of disappointment with only occasional fun flots
  
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• Living on the edge: what young people in England told us about life on the coast

  26-12-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  As part of the Guardian’s Against the tide series, readers aged 18 to 30 share what they love about living in their coastal town, the challenges and why they often choose to leaveMegan, a 24-year-old from the Isle of Wight, is very familiar with saying goodbye. She decided university wasn’t for her and remembers how, one by one, she waved off her friends who left the island to study. Many never came back. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘All brakes are off’: Russia’s attempt to rein in illicit market for leaked data backfires

  26-12-2025 10:00 via theguardian.com
  Russian state has tolerated parallel probiv market for its convenience but now Ukrainian spies are exploiting itRussia is scrambling to rein in the country’s sprawling illicit market for leaked personal data, a shadowy ecosystem long exploited by investigative journalists, police and criminal groups.For more than a decade, Russia’s so-called probiv market – a term derived from the verb “to pierce” or “to punch into a search bar” – has operated as a
  
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• Unpublished ‘Tupperware erotica’ novel prompts fierce contest for TV rights

  26-12-2025 09:36 via theguardian.com
  Interest in Wet Ink by Abigail Avis is part of a trend for works by female authors among streamers and production companies A much-hyped novel about a housewife who uses Tupperware parties to secretly smuggle erotic stories to her friends and neighbours is causing a stir in the television world, igniting a fierce bidding contest over the right to adapt it for the small screen.Wet Ink, a novel by the 33-year-old London-based author Abigail Avis, is not scheduled to be published until the spring 2
  
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• Bank savings account £5,000 warning as HMRC explains 'personal limits' threshold

  26-12-2025 09:14 via express.co.uk
  The HM Revenue and Customs rules apply to anyone with a savings account
  
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• Martin Lewis' NS&I Premium Bonds 'is it good?' alert over savings

  26-12-2025 08:47 via express.co.uk
  Personal finance expert advised a podcast caller with £60,000 in Premium Bonds on whether they should move their money to savings accounts
  
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• State pensioners given £921 New Year boost if they have two-digit code

  26-12-2025 08:01 via express.co.uk
  Pensioners can expect to receive a payment earlier than normal this month.
  
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• VIP viewing: cinemas bet on luxury bars and beds to usher in a new film era

  26-12-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Sector reinvests in high-end experiences, from front-row beds to premier pods and business class-style seats with built-in wine coolersFrom champagne coolers to front row VIP beds, cinema owners are investing heavily in premium experiences as the industry gets its box office mojo back.As the third instalment in James Cameron’s blockbuster Avatar series pulls in the Christmas holiday crowds, the UK box office is expected to surpass £1bn in 2025 for the first time since before the glob
  
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• Ultimate fantasy house hunt: dream homes for sale in Great Britain

  26-12-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  From a barn conversion with wildlife for neighbours to a recently renovated townhouse on a quaint high street Continue reading...
  
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• Sustainable aviation fuel take-up in UK unlikely to hit 2025 target, data suggests

  26-12-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Provisional figures in government mandate’s first year show 20% shortfall in levels of SAF supplied for UK flightsThe take-up of sustainable aviation fuels is on course to fall short of the UK government’s first annual mandate, official figures suggest.Production data published by the Department for Transport (DfT) covering most of 2025 shows that sustainable fuels (SAF) only accounted for 1.6% of fuel supplied for UK flights – 20% less fuel in volume than the 2% needed to fulf
  
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• Staying at home could leave you exposed to indoor air pollution, study reveals

  26-12-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Secondhand tobacco smoke and routine tasks such as operating the stove shown to be biggest emitters of indoor pollution in UK homesChristmas and New Year is a time when many people will be at home. Being indoors can give us a degree of protection from outdoor air pollution, but it can also trap pollution we produce inside our homes.Risks from secondhand tobacco smoke are well known and the effect is perhaps best seen by comparison of health data before and after indoor smoking bans. A study of 4
  
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• DWP update over who will have to pay back benefit overpayments

  26-12-2025 06:35 via express.co.uk
  Concerns were raised about 'official errors' leading to benefit overpayments
  
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• Outdated furniture fire safety rules putting people at risk, MP warns

  26-12-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  Millions of households are exposed to materials in upholstered furniture that can release dangerous fumes when they burnThe UK is still using extremely outdated furniture fire safety rules, putting people at risk from toxic materials, an MP has warned.Bob Blackman, the chair of the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on fire safety, said the government has failed to update rules that date back to 1988, leaving millions of households exposed to materials that exacerbate the release of dangerous
  
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• Best of 2025: The human stain remover: what Britain’s greatest extreme cleaner learned from 25 years on the job – podcast

  26-12-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  Every Monday and Friday for the rest of December we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2025, in case you missed them, with an introduction from the editorial team to explain why we’ve chosen it.From October: From murder scenes to whale blubber, Ben Giles has seen it – and cleaned it – all. In their stickiest hours, people rely on him to restore orderBy Tom Lamont. Read by Elis James Continue reading...
  
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