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• Will Ripple's XRP surpass BTC in the future? Ripplecoin Mining launches new XRP contracts to help investors obtain daily returns

  22-07-2025 14:05 via globenewswire.com
  
  XRP is no longer just a cross-border payment tool. Ripplecoin Mining launches smart cloud mining services to enable global investors to obtain stable daily returns with XRP, easily opening a new model of passive value-added of digital assetsNew York, July22, 2025(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In the past month, Ripple's XRP has performed impressively, with an increase in dollar terms exceeding Bitcoin (BTC) by more than 60%. Not only that, XRP has also shown a strong trend in its trading pair with BTC, and
  
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• Tell us your experiences of parcel thefts

  14-11-2025 12:40 via theguardian.com
  We would like to hear your experiences of parcels being stolenParcel thefts from doorsteps are on the rise in the UK. We would like to hear your experiences of parcels being stolen. Have done anything to try and fight back or catch the thieves? Tell us about it below.If you’re having trouble using the form click here. Read terms of service here and privacy policy here. Continue reading...
  
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• People in the UK: tell us if you’ve borrowed money from friends or family

  14-11-2025 11:55 via theguardian.com
  We’d like to hear from people in Britain who have turned to family or friends to borrow money instead of to banks, and how this has affected themBritons often turn to family and friends to borrow money now, a new survey has suggested.The survey of more than 4,000 adults commissioned by non-profit Fair4All Finance found that while 25% of respondents had taken out a Buy Now Pay Later loan, 26% had borrowed from family and 15% from friends this year. Continue reading...
  
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• Homes for sale in historic warehouses in England – in pictures

  14-11-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  From a former basket-weaving factory to a home showcasing the mechanics of its life as a feed mill Continue reading...
  
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• Rachel Reeves to abandon plans to raise income tax rates in budget

  14-11-2025 01:19 via theguardian.com
  Labour had laid the ground to break a manifesto pledge on taxes for working people but has now made a U-turnRachel Reeves is set to abandon a plan to raise income tax in her budget with the chancellor reportedly “ripping up” the main measures in the wake of turmoil in the party.A source told the Guardian that plans to break the manifesto pledge on income tax had been ditched by the prime minister, Keir Starmer, and the chancellor. Continue reading...
  
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• The best self-care gifts in the UK for Christmas, from cosy PJs to massagers

  13-11-2025 16:00 via theguardian.com
  Whether you go for affordable luxury buys or true indulgence, you can’t go wrong with these presents for pampering• The best 90s Christmas gifts: 15 nostalgic picksBy the time Christmas rolls around, most of us are ready to drop. There are the parties, the runaround to get everything ready for the big day, and the toll that the cold weather takes on our health and wellness.So, if you’re planning to treat your loved ones, a gift that will help them feel well and pampered is alway
  
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• London congestion charge to rise to £18 – and electric vehicles will have to pay

  13-11-2025 15:37 via theguardian.com
  Motoring groups criticise changes for making it ‘harder to go green’ though discounts of up to 50% will applyLondon’s congestion charge will rise by 20% in January from £15 to £18 and electric vehicle drivers will be liable to pay to enter the heart of the capital for the first time.EVs will no longer be exempt from the levy, Transport for London said, but will pay a lower rate. Electric car drivers will get a 25% discount, paying £13.50 a day, while electric
  
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• I decided to put my change into a cash-converting machine. Big mistake | Adrian Chiles

  13-11-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  The machine sought to claim both a transaction fee and a percentage of my change. Why would anyone agree to this?One night, late in the last century, I was with some friends walking home in the middle of the night. We were living in Cricklewood, on Shoot-Up Hill – which remains my favourite home address. Anyway, a police car, blue lights a-flashing, came to a halt in front of us. A couple of police officers leapt out and asked us to jump up and down. You what?They asked us again, but in a
  
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• UK economy unexpectedly shrinks in September as JLR hack hammers production output – business live

  13-11-2025 09:07 via theguardian.com
  Jaguar Land Rover cyber-attack held back UK growth in the last quarter, new GDP report showsChancellor Rachel Reeves is harking back to the happier days of stronger growth in the first two quarters of this year.Responding to this morning’s GDP figures, Reeves says:“We had the fastest-growing economy in the G7 in the first half of the year, but there’s more to do to build an economy that works for working people.At my Budget later this month, I will take the fair decisions to bu
  
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• UK economy shrank in September as JLR hack hammers production output – business live

  13-11-2025 08:13 via theguardian.com
  Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, including the UK GDP report for September, and the third quarter of 2025.Although the Jaguar Land Rover attack clearly caused a drop in activity (its UK factories were closed through September), there has also been a wider slowdown.This chart show how the rolling three month estimate of growth has weakened since the spring:“Across the quarter as a whole manufacturing drove the weakness in production. There was a particularly marke
  
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• ‘The car belongs in Berlin’: city backpedaling on bike-friendly policies, critics say

  13-11-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  Car-critical measures have been slashed since the conservative CDU came into power in 2023, triggering protests and dividing communitiesIn the rubble left by the second world war, Berlin seized a zero-hour opportunity to remake itself with a brave new vision of mobility, its citizens zooming down broad avenues and autobahns in roaring German-engineered cars.Tramlines, particularly in the capitalist west of the divided city, were ripped out to make way for motorists, and bicycles were muscled out
  
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• British music stars urge Starmer to tackle ‘pernicious’ ticket tout websites

  13-11-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  Radiohead, Dua Lipa and Coldplay among dozens of artists calling for cap on resale prices to stop exploitation of fansRadiohead, Dua Lipa and Coldplay are among dozens of world-renowned artists who have urged Keir Starmer to honour his pledge to tackle “extortionate and pernicious” websites used by ticket touts to exploit music fans.A group of British artists, who have collectively sold more than half a billion albums, took aim at “secondary ticketing” platforms such as V
  
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• ‘Utter hypocrisy’: tobacco firm lobbied against rules in Africa that are law in UK

  13-11-2025 05:00 via theguardian.com
  British American Tobacco pushed Zambian ministers to drop or delay ad bans, health warnings and restrictions on flavoured products, letter showsBritish American Tobacco has been accused of “utter hypocrisy” for lobbying against tobacco control measures in Africa that are already in place in the UK.A letter seen by the Guardian, sent from the company’s subsidiary in Zambia to the country’s government ministers, asks for plans to ban tobacco advertising and sponsorship to b
  
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• Property experts urge Rachel Reeves to abolish ‘sin tax’ of stamp duty in budget

  13-11-2025 01:01 via theguardian.com
  Chancellor advised to replace levy with an annual property tax as Treasury considers overhaul of systemRachel Reeves has been urged to abolish the “sin tax” of stamp duty in the budget by property experts including TV presenter Kirstie Allsopp, as the chancellor faced calls to replace it with an annual property tax.Allsopp, presenter of Channel 4 property shows including Location, Location, Location, said “people are in a panic” about potential stamp duty changes, and &ld
  
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• Hybrid working could help get more disabled people into work, peers say

  13-11-2025 01:01 via theguardian.com
  Lords committee says government should consider including remote working in back-to-work initiativesMinisters could encourage employers to allow more hybrid and remote working to help get greater numbers of disabled people and carers into the workplace, according to a House of Lords committee.A report by a cross-party committee says the government should set out whether it has considered including remote and hybrid working in back-to-work initiatives to offer more working flexibility to people w
  
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• Rachel Reeves to cut tax benefits for workers using salary sacrifice schemes to buy bikes

  13-11-2025 00:39 via theguardian.com
  Chancellor expected to introduce new limit on how much can be spent on a bicycle through cycle to work scheme Rachel Reeves has drawn up a plan to cut tax benefits for workers using salary sacrifice schemes to buy expensive manual and electric bicycles, according to a report.The chancellor is expected to introduce a new limit on how much people can spend on a bicycle through the cycle to work scheme in this month’s budget, the Financial Times said, citing people familiar with budget prepar
  
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• Labour infighting puts chancellor’s budget plan to reassure bond markets at risk

  12-11-2025 20:11 via theguardian.com
  It was hoped manifesto-breaking tax rises might bring down borrowing costs – but party turbulence is likely to spook investorsThere is one narrow, perilous route by which Rachel Reeves can successfully deliver her 26 November budget, and it runs right through government bond markets.But the current outbreak of Labour infighting – driven by a flurry of pugilistic briefings from inside No 10 – risks cutting that route off with two weeks still to go before budget day. Continue rea
  
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• A tax roadmap for electric cars | Letters

  12-11-2025 19:07 via theguardian.com
  Paul F Faupel and Venetia Caine make suggestions about the chancellor’s idea of a pay-per-mile charge on electric carsRachel Reeves’s proposal to introduce a pay-per-mile tax levy on electric vehicles is idiotic, especially suggesting that hybrid vehicles will have a reduced rate and still pay the usual road tax (Rachel Reeves considering pay-per-mile tax for electric vehicles in budget, 6 November). Furthermore, requiring drivers to predict their yearly mileage in advance and then p
  
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• SSE is a winner in the great grid upgrade. Who is looking out for consumers and small businesses? | Nils Pratley

  12-11-2025 18:43 via theguardian.com
  Nobody doubts chunky spending is necessary to improve the grid. But how much of that money will be funded through consumer bills?It is a “once-in-a-generation opportunity to upgrade the UK electricity network”, gushed Martin Pibworth, the chief executive of SSE, and you can understand his excitement. The great grid upgrade has put a rocket under his share price. SSE’s shares soared 17% on Wednesday as the group laid out plans to spend the phenomenal sum of £33bn – m
  
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• BBC prepared to apologise to Trump to resolve billion-dollar legal threat

  12-11-2025 18:21 via theguardian.com
  The US president has threatened the BBC with a lawsuit over the editing of a Trump speech in an edition of PanoramaThe BBC is prepared to formally apologise to Donald Trump as part of its efforts to resolve his billion-dollar legal threat over its editing of one of his speeches, the Guardian understands.However, figures at the corporation are also minded to be robust in defending its journalism in the face of allegations from Trump that it made “false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflamma
  
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• The billionaire nanny boom: why gen Z is providing ‘private service’ for the super-rich

  12-11-2025 18:10 via theguardian.com
  Is it time to start channelling Mary Poppins? Some graduates are eschewing entry-level jobs to earn £150k or more looking after the children of the absurdly wealthy
  Name: Billionaire nannies.Age: Mid-20s, or thereabouts. Continue reading...
  
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• Kim Kardashian’s Skims valued at $5bn after raising new funding

  12-11-2025 17:54 via theguardian.com
  Skims plans to use new capital to broaden its intimates lines, and expand further into apparel and activewear Skims, founded by reality TV star and entrepreneur Kim Kardashian along with CEO Jens Grede, said on Wednesday it had raised $225m in new capital, valuing the shapewear label at $5bn.Kardashian’s ventures, including her cosmetics brand SKKN, have attracted young shoppers and benefited from her vast social media following. Similarly, other celebrity-backed brands have also drawn ven
  
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• Atlanta Fed chair steps down as Trump attacks central bank’s independence

  12-11-2025 17:53 via theguardian.com
  Raphael W Bostic will retire in February – creating another vacancy on Federal Reserve’s powerful policy committeeThe head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta announced plans to step down amid an extraordinary campaign by Donald Trump to exert influence over the US central bank.Raphael W Bostic, president of the Atlanta Fed, will retire from the role in February – creating another vacancy on the Fed’s powerful policy committee. Continue reading...
  
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• Martin Lewis’ 5 digit code for O2, Three and Vodafone customers to avoid price rise

  12-11-2025 17:34
  This tried and tested Martin Lewis method can slash your phone bills and avoid mid-contract price hikes.
  
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• Full list of 48 health conditions that could get you £5,700 DWP payment

  12-11-2025 17:25
  More people could be eligible for the DWP support without realising.
  
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• High earners could lose out on £50,000 under Rachel Reeves crackdown

  12-11-2025 17:00
  At present, employees can use the scheme to pay up to £60,000 a year tax-free into their pension
  
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• Bank of England launches stablecoin consultation - what it could mean for you

  12-11-2025 16:54
  Plans to regulate the currency will reduce the risk of it losing its value.
  
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• WASPI campaign outlines next steps as DWP to reconsider compensation decision

  12-11-2025 16:47
  The Ombudsman preivously set out a proposal for the WASPI women to get up to £3,000
  
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• Lloyds Bank closes 7 branches this week - full list

  12-11-2025 16:03
  A total of 17 Lloyds Bank branches will shut their doors for good this month.
  
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• Tate staff vote to strike over pay after union members reject ‘inadequate’ offer

  12-11-2025 15:33 via theguardian.com
  Exclusive: More than 150 workers to strike from 26 November to 2 December, raising possibility of disruption to major showsStaff at Tate have voted overwhelmingly to strike over pay, which could seriously disrupt major shows at the cultural institution.More than 150 workers will go on strike from 26 November to 2 December after a ballot by the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), in which 98% of members voted for action on a turnout of more than 87%. Continue reading...
  
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