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• Opening a new era for XRP: DRML miner releases innovative smart cloud mining contract, enjoy XRP rewards every day

  07-07-2025 22:20 via globenewswire.com
  
  Boost Mining Potential Maximize your mining potential — DRML Miner now supports direct XRP mining with daily XRP payouts, in addition to AI-optimized contracts for BTC, ETH, DOGE, USDC, and more for stable, diversified returns.New York, NY, July07, 2025(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --Boost Mining Potential Maximize your mining potential — DRML Miner now supports direct XRP mining with daily XRP payouts, in addition to AI-optimized contracts for BTC, ETH, DOGE, USDC, and more for stable, diversifi
  
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• The £110 weekly payment that 1m pensioners are missing out on

  06-11-2025 22:22 via express.co.uk
  Eligible retirees could receive £73.90 or £110.40 a week.
  
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• Tesco Clubcard warning as £16.5m worth of vouchers about to expire

  06-11-2025 17:57 via express.co.uk
  You can spend up to triple the value of your Clubcard with Tesco Rewards partners like PizzaExpress.
  
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• Asda announces huge new change to how supermarkets look inside

  06-11-2025 15:58 via express.co.uk
  The first renovated store has just reopened and will be the blueprint for Asda's new look.
  
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• Cash ISA allowance cut could deliver ‘£7billion boost’ to savers

  06-11-2025 15:38 via express.co.uk
  Currently, savers can put up to £20,000 a year into an ISA without paying tax on interest.
  
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• HMRC urges all Brits to do 1 thing now to check pension forecast

  06-11-2025 14:03 via express.co.uk
  Amidst pension panic, a new HMRC feature offers an easy way to get some financial assurances.
  
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• British Gas launches new tariff with more 'half-price' savings and 'free energy' prizes

  06-11-2025 13:38 via express.co.uk
  Eligible customers can sign up for a newly launched tariff to get more hours of half-price electricity.
  
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• Rachel Reeves killing Britain with 'death by a thousand taxes'

  06-11-2025 13:30 via express.co.uk
  CBI chief economist Louise Hellem has warned there is "an overwhelming sense of a country, and an economy, in stasis".
  
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• Rachel Reeves’s Budget was always going to hurt – this awful decision just made it worse

  06-11-2025 13:00 via express.co.uk
  The Chancellor suffered yet another blow today. So did hard-pressed Britons.
  
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• Average online side hustle earns Brits over £5k a year - with Millennials making the most

  06-11-2025 12:36 via express.co.uk
  Millennials and Gen Z are cashing in big, sometimes even surpassing their main salaries.
  
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• Santander issues serious £120 warning to customers

  06-11-2025 12:33 via express.co.uk
  Experts have shared their top tips on staying safe as around £4,000 was stolen by fraudsters in just three months
  
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• Propagate, repot, swap: how to fill your home with houseplants on a budget

  05-11-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  From decorative plants to herbs and salad greens, choose the right variety to thrive in your indoor spaceThe easiest houseplants to keep alive are the ones suited to your home. “The biggest way to waste money is buying plants that aren’t right for your environment. They’ll struggle or die,” says the horticulturist Ellen Mary Webster. Continue reading...
  
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• UK to launch pilot scheme that helps homeless people access banking

  05-11-2025 01:01 via theguardian.com
  Five biggest banks take part in programme that will also help domestic abuse victims recover their credit scoreHomeless people will for the first time be able to open accounts with the UK’s five biggest banks, in a pilot scheme marking the launch of the government’s financial inclusion strategy.The Treasury said its new national plan was meant to ensure financial services “worked for everyone”, as it also revealed programmes that could help rebuild the credit scores of do
  
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• Telecoms companies to improve security to stop UK phone number ‘spoofing’

  05-11-2025 01:01 via theguardian.com
  Six of biggest providers to roll out new technology over next 12 months in effort to prevent fraud by foreign call centresSix of the biggest phone companies have said they will work together and upgrade their systems to stop fraudsters being able to “spoof” UK phone numbers and commit fraud.New technology is expected to be rolled out over the next year that will stop criminals impersonating legitimate bodies and subsequently duping people into believing they are talking to real compa
  
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• Fixing Britain’s worklessness crisis will cost employers £6bn a year, report says

  05-11-2025 01:01 via theguardian.com
  The Keep Britain Working review, created to tackle the rising tide of ill health pushing millions out of work, reported its findings ahead of this month’s budgetEmployers have been told in a landmark government review that fixing Britain’s health-related worklessness crisis will require them to spend £6bn a year on support for their staff.In a major report before this month’s budget, Charlie Mayfield warned that businesses needed to play a more central role in tackling a
  
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• MPs ask HMRC to explain child benefit error that froze payments to parents

  04-11-2025 23:34 via theguardian.com
  Answers demanded after 23,500 families wrongly suspected of fraud when incorrect data showed they had left UKMPs are demanding answers from HMRC over a child benefit error in which payments to 23,500 families were stopped as part of an anti-fraud crackdown.Meg Hillier, a Labour MP and chair of the House of Commons Treasury select committee, has written to the permanent secretary of HMRC asking who made the decisions, why they were made and whether compensation would be offered to the victims. Co
  
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• Reeves considers cut to green levies in effort to reduce cost of energy bills

  04-11-2025 21:47 via theguardian.com
  Exclusive: Chancellor hopes to save up to £170 from average bill but industry insiders say move would be ‘disastrous’Prospect of breaking 50-year income tax taboo shows scale of Reeves’s challengeRachel Reeves is considering slashing funding for more energy efficient homes to pay for a reduction in energy bills, sources have told the Guardian, as the chancellor looks for ways to ease the cost of living in this month’s budget.Reeves is finalising a multibillion pound
  
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• Families can claim up to £300 supermarket vouchers to spend in Aldi, Morrisons and Tesco

  04-11-2025 21:03 via express.co.uk
  The help is being offered through the Household Support Fund. You have to contact your council to see what type of support it is offering and if you are eligible.
  
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• RMT accepts three-year pay deal for London Underground staff

  04-11-2025 19:55 via theguardian.com
  Agreement that will increase drivers’ pay to nearly £80,000 by 2027 comes after strike action in SeptemberThe RMT union has accepted a three-year inflation-plus pay deal for London Underground workers, ending the dispute that led to travel chaos in London in September and increasing drivers’ pay to nearly £80,000 by 2027.The deal, with an initial 3.4% increase backdated to this April, means London Underground staff pay will rise in line with RPI inflation – higher t
  
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• The Guardian view on Rachel Reeves’s speech: gambling on a mirage of stability | Editorial

  04-11-2025 19:47 via theguardian.com
  The chancellor’s bid to appear fiscally credible hides a deeper weakness: a growth model built on private debt and political theatre, not real economic renewalRachel Reeves’s speech was a pre-emptive confession that Labour would almost certainly break its manifesto commitment not to put up income tax in November’s budget. The credibility gap between Labour’s political theatre and the fiscal arithmetic has been obvious for weeks. The economic fundamentals haven’t cha
  
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• The Guardian view on Europe’s housing crisis: time for the EU to get radical | Editorial

  04-11-2025 19:46 via theguardian.com
  Soaring rents and mortages are undermining the social fabric of member states. A coming Brussels plan for affordable housing must be boldAn entrenched housing crisis was one of the dominant themes in last week’s Dutch election, and it is not hard to understand why. House prices in the Netherlands have doubled in the past decade, and a new-build home costs 16 times the average salary. Across the EU, affordability is not just a life-limiting problem in notoriously expensive property markets
  
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• Prospect of breaking 50-year income tax taboo shows scale of Reeves’s challenge

  04-11-2025 19:32 via theguardian.com
  The chancellor appears to believe voters will forgive a broken promise in return for meaningful investmentChancellor considers cut to green levies in effort to reduce cost of energy billsIn April 1975, the Labour chancellor Denis Healey sought to grip the UK’s runaway inflation and rising unemployment rates – an economic crisis triggered by the shock rise in global oil prices – by raising the basic rate of income tax.Now Rachel Reeves, faced with her own set of difficult econom
  
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• Chelsea have £150m buffer against fines from FA, say football finance experts

  04-11-2025 19:09 via theguardian.com
  Revelation may make points deduction or suspension from competition over Abramovich-era breaches more likely Chelsea FC would be unaffected by any financial penalty for alleged breaches of Football Association (FA) rules during the Roman Abramovich era, football finance experts have said, after corporate filings revealed its owners have a £150m cushion against the cost.Clearlake, a consortium led by the US investor Todd Boehly, agreed to pay Abramovich £2.5bn for Chelsea in 2022, sho
  
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• Major energy supplier giving customers £300 energy bill credit with 1 change

  04-11-2025 18:51 via express.co.uk
  Households can cut the cost of their energy bills by making a green upgrade.
  
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• China accuses Dutch of prolonging chip war that threatens to halt car factories

  04-11-2025 18:17 via theguardian.com
  Beijing tells Netherlands to ‘stop interfering’ after seizure of chipmaker Nexperia as export bans disrupt supply chainBusiness live – latest updatesChina has told the Netherlands to “stop interfering” in the seized chipmaker Nexperia, accusing it of prolonging a dispute that has disrupted the global car industry.The Dutch government took control of the semiconductor-maker at the end of September amid US security concerns about the company’s Chinese parent, Wi
  
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• Has Rachel Reeves just thrown the biggest Budget sucker punch EVER? She'll deceive us all

  04-11-2025 17:41 via express.co.uk
  What was Rachel Reeves up to this morning?
  
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• Nationwide announces big change for customers 'starting Wednesday'

  04-11-2025 17:30 via express.co.uk
  It has made the move ahead of a Bank of England decision
  
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• The best umbrellas in the UK for staying dry in the wind and rain – tested on a 517m hilltop

  04-11-2025 16:32 via theguardian.com
  Our reviewer braved Peak District downpours to see which brollies – from budget to mini to windproof – stayed standing• 10 stylish and practical ways to look good in wet weatherI noticed something while testing umbrellas over pavement and muddy hilltop: people are more likely to smile at you. Or perhaps I was more likely to smile at them, while feeling content and dry-headed under the canopy.We Britons have loved brollies – previously an aristocratic luxury – since a
  
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• Gopichand Hinduja, head of Britain’s richest family, dies aged 85

  04-11-2025 16:30 via theguardian.com
  Billionaire businessman’s family owns Hinduja Group, which has interests across oil, banking and real estateBusiness live – latest updatesGopichand Hinduja, the billionaire head of Britain’s richest family, has died aged 85.Hinduja died on Tuesday in London after a long illness, a spokesperson said. Continue reading...
  
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• Reeves wants to talk about the budget, but she’s taken a vow of white noise | John Crace

  04-11-2025 16:28 via theguardian.com
  Exclusive: It must be tough overseeing Schrödinger’s economy, fixing the foundations while also failing to fix themIt’s this season’s fashion accessory for every politician. Outside election campaigns, press conferences usually signal major set piece events or a national emergency. Now you can’t move for them. Reform have had four inside a week with another one lined up for tomorrow. Even Kemi Badenoch has been at it with a bizarre outdoors show-and-tell last Thursda
  
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