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Legally enforceable rules come as inquiry reveals many customers are overcharged by at least £400 Funeral directors across the UK must publish clear price lists and will be banned from paying hospitals and care homes for referrals under new measures to help bereaved families. The legally enforceable rules are being brought in after an investigation by the competition watchdog found UK consumers were typically
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Pet food from Sainsbury's, Pets at Home and other brands recalled after rise in fatal cat disease.
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Ford, LG and Samsung among companies in discussions with government and local authorities The UK government has held talks with six manufacturers about building “gigafactory” electric car battery plants as part of its efforts to improve the prospects of the British automotive industry. The US carmaker Ford and the Korean electronics conglomerates LG and Samsung are among the companies that have had early-stage discussions with the government or local authorities, it is understood.
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Choosing the right bank can boost your company's bottom line. This is Money lists the best small business current accounts in the market, and compares their fees and bonuses.
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The online furniture seller did not sparkle in its stock market debut, with shares closing 4% lower.
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Estate agents Savills say the race for space has driven the luxury homes market during the past year of the pandemic and that this looks set to continue.
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Home buyers are racing to complete their purchases before the stamp duty holiday ends on June 30. We speak to some of the more than 160,000 who are at risk of missing out.
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Sony Music is latest after Spotify, Amazon and Apple to try to cash in on boom in audio listening Sony Music has acquired the UK’s largest independent podcast producer, Somethin’ Else, which makes David Tennant’s interview series and The Sun King, David Dimbleby’s deep dive into the life of Rupert Murdoch Home to artists from Beyoncé and AC/DC to Dolly Parton, Sony is using the acquisition to spearhead the launch of a new global podcast division.
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Best of the Best, which specialises in luxury sports car 'raffles' where people buy tickets hoping to win automobiles, saw profits more than triple last year, its results show.
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Brexit minister Lord Frost asks for ‘a bit of breathing space’ to negotiate deal and head off trade war The UK has asked the EU to suspend an imminent ban on the sale of British sausages in Northern Ireland to give both sides “breathing space” to negotiate an agreement on the Brexit protocol and avert a trade war. Lord Frost, the Brexit minister, was speaking days after
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The new Federal Trade Commission chair has Big Tech in her sights.
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Changes provide relief for thousands of businesses that were facing huge rent bills from 1 July
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Sony is latest after Spotify, Amazon and Apple to try to cash in on boom in audio listening Sony has acquired the UK’s largest independent podcast producer, Somethin’ Else, which makes David Tennant’s interview series and The Sun King, David Dimbleby’s deep dive into the life of Rupert Murdoch Home to artists from Beyoncé and AC/DC to Dolly Parton, Sony is using the acquisition to spearhead the launch of a new global podcast division.
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The government's ban on landlords evicting companies in rent debt will now end in March 2022
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Portugal captain held up bottle of water and shouted in Portuguese: ‘Agua!’
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Chairwoman Dame Sharon White says that new recruits' literacy and numeracy are weak.
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Fewer British shoppers used cash to make payments last year as the pandemic message to not handle physical money filtered through, new data shows.
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UK Finance study records a 35% drop in cash transactions in 2020 as Covid crisis turbo-charges change in spending habits
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Douglas Wood, 35, swipes his phone and goes – as do most people his age and younger, he says
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Retail and hospitality sectors alone have built up £5bn in rent arrears which landlords cannot yet pursue them for
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The Volkswagen Golf 1.0 TSI Life isn't the version many people want - or will want to tell their mates they own. But can it deliver everything you could ever want or need from a car?
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The Competition and Markets Authority says funeral directors and crematoriums could risk court action.
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The investment bank, along with NatWest, is reviewing plans for staff to come back to the office.
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The T7 Multivan, which will cost from around £50,000, is the replacement for the T6 Caravelle and shifts to VW's more car-focused platform rather than being based on a van.
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Dry pet food from Sainsbury's, Pets at Home and other brands recalled after rise in fatal cat disease.
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Euro 2020 is seen as a boon to Britain's recovery, with many of the most important matches taking place at Wembley. The tournament will see fans across the country flocking to pubs and restaurants.
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British tourists face continued restrictions as bloc opens up to other vaccinated travellers
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UK house prices dipped in April as buyers lowered their offers in anticipation of the initial stamp duty holiday ending back in March, the ONS House Price Index has revealed.
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Firm says sites are slow to act when warned that fake reviews are being solicited on their platforms Amazon has blamed social media companies for its failure to remove fake reviews from its website, arguing that bad actors turn to social networks to buy and sell fake reviews outside the reach of its own technology. The company says it removed more than 200m suspected fake reviews before they were seen by customers in 2020 alone, but nonetheless has faced continued criticism for the enormous scale of fake and misleading reviews that make it on to its store.
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The Competition and Markets Authority says funeral directors and crematoriums could risk court action.
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Shares in the online furniture seller fell by up to 8% as trading began on Wednesday.
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Retail and hospitality sectors alone have built up £5bn in rent arrears which landlords cannot yet pursue them for
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With drivers supposed to face bans once they accumulate 12 points, it means some have been given special dispensation to keep their licence despite totting up enough to lose it 2.5 times over.
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Analysis: Threadneedle Street believes the above-target 2.1% figure will prove temporary
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Savers are seeing their cash pots eroded, as not a single standard account manages to pay an inflation-beating rate, This is Money's research reveals.
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The rising cost of fuel and clothes pushes the inflation rate above the Bank of England's 2% target.
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London-listed music investor will issue 124m new shares, at a price of 121p a share Hipgnosis, the firm that offers investors the chance to make money from the royalties of popular songs by
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The one-bedroom flat for sale in London's affluent Kensington is part of a red brick mansion block where the poet once lived, and is being sold with a price tag of £995,000.
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The online furniture firm, founded more than a decade ago with £2.5m, is set to sell shares.
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Most payments by consumers are spontaneous but options were limited by the Covid crisis., say banks.
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The rising cost of fuel and clothes pushes the inflation rate above the Bank of England's 2% target.
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The Swedish giant is among a number of companies who are pausing adverts on the new news channel.
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According to reports in Bloomberg, the company paid an Australian traveller after a 2016 attack.
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From dodgy delivery texts to automated calls about tax bills, Amazon and broadband, the fraudsters are out of control. But are banks doing enough to prevent it?
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The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman is investigating claims that the Government bungled its communication about the rise in the state pension age for women.
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Some children have used lockdown to set up profitable buinesses. Ryan Mottershead, 13, (pictured) was paid £200 to create an animation for fashion brand Tokiyano's website.
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The Treasury-backed National Savings & Investments slashed its rates to as little as 0.01 per cent in November, leading to a record number of savers abandoning their accounts.
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In September 2019, my wife and I booked with BA to fly to San Jose, California, in March 2020 to visit our grandchildren. We paid £2,617 but our flights were cancelled because of Covid.
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Council hopes micro dwellings built on spaces between houses and gardens will revive neighbourhoods Unique micro homes are to be built on old garage sites in Bristol to help the city tackle its housing crisis. “Gap homes” – so-called because they will be constructed in small spaces between houses and gardens – would be made off site and dropped into place across the city.
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The rising cost of clothes, fuel and eating out pushes consumer prices above the Bank of England's 2% target.
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Study finds ‘permafrost’ of small firms that have not met Hampton-Alexander review’s target of women in one-third of roles Less than half of the 260 smaller companies listed on the London Stock Exchange’s main index have met the target of having a third of their board roles occupied by women, and more than half still have all-male executive leadership teams. The campaign group
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Award aims to teach six- to 10-year-olds about finance as spending becomes increasingly digital On a Friday night in Enfield, north London, a group of eight-, nine- and 10-year-olds are discussing cryptocurrency and what people do with their cash. Fluttering in the evening breeze are Post-it notes bearing words including “electricity”, “toys”, “Netflix” and “bitcoin”, stuck on boards headed “spend”, “save” and “donate”. The 20th Edmonton Cubs had been challenged to write down ways to use money, and after five minutes they have come up with lots – from the mundane to the unexpected. Although, as one points out, “most of them are about spending”.
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I need a refund for my £3,637 cancelled trip, but each claims the other is liable
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Travel and leisure stocks fell 0.8 per cent after announcement of delay in lifting Covid related restrictions
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Those who bear a disproportionate share of a carbon tax will mobilise against it … unless they are given reason not to In his classic book,
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Swedish carmaker joins forces with steel firm to use technology that replaces coal with hydrogen Volvo plans to build cars using steel made without fossil fuels by 2026, as part of a deal that could significantly reduce the carbon emissions from manufacturing its vehicles. The Swedish carmaker and compatriot steelmaker SSAB signed a letter of intent to commercialise technology that replaces coal with hydrogen in a crucial part of the process.
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Deal agreed during Joe Biden’s trip to Brussels as White House seeks to focus on threat posed by China A five-year ceasefire in the long-running US-EU trade war over subsidies to aircraft makers has been agreed during Joe Biden’s visit to Brussels, as the White House sought to focus attention on the greater threat said to be posed by China. Billions of euros and dollars worth of tit-for-tat tariffs imposed on the US manufacturer Boeing and its European rival Airbus will be suspended after both sides committed to work on removing unfair subsidies.
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The UK might soon be reliant on electric vehicles imported from abroad, warns an influential group.
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Campaigners urge government to use review of gambling regulation to forcibly reduce number of ads Most of the public support a
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The Amazon founder's ex-wife said she chose 286 teams 'empowering voices the world needs to hear'.
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A visitor from Mars trying to understand the UK trade deal with Australia agreed by Boris Johnson and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison (pictured) might receive a misleading impression.
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Wise, which was set up by Estonian entrepreneurs Kristo Kaarmann (left) and Taavet Hinrikus (right) is set to announce a listing that could see it valued at up to £9bn.
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Executives at Trafigura, Vitol, Glencore and Goldman Sachs all believe Brent crude hitting triple figures is a real possibility. A big driver will be drastic investment cuts made by big energy companies
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The hiring spree is part of a £8.5bn investment to take advantage of huge demand from businesses for advice on environmental, social and governance issues.
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Arch-rivals Airbus, which is part-owned by the French, Spanish and German governments, and American Boeing are the world's two biggest aircraft manufacturers.
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The Amigo Shareholders Action Group, representing around 8,000 private investors who own 75 per cent of the firm, wrote to the Treasury complaining about the FCA's handling of Amigo's troubles.
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The Financial Conduct Authority It is wrangling with social media giants to get fraudulent adverts removed from the internet and has suggested that banks should be doing more to protect customers.
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Having built a big operation during the pandemic it could stick or twist but either way investors will soon want a decision What’s AstraZeneca’s strategy in Covid treatments? In the short term, there is no confusion: the company will continue pumping out vaccine doses, will keep signing partnerships and will try to ignore churlishness in Brussels. The long term, though, is another matter. Being big in vaccines was never part of chief executive Pascal Soriot’s grand plan for AstraZeneca, so there’s a decision to be made about what to do with an operation that has been built almost by accident during a global emergency.
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President Joe Biden (pictured) reportedly needs the vote of Democrat senator Joe Manchin of coal dependent West Virginia if he is to win Congressional backing for his $1trillion infrastructure plan.
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The Amazon founder's ex-wife said she chose 286 teams "empowering voices the world needs to hear".
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Labour says import quotas are so high they are meaningless and raises concerns about animal welfare
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Dividing money up lets you keep track of it, says financial adviser
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Farmers fear that deal will mean they risk being undercut by cheap imports made to lower animal welfare standards
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Chief executive sends ‘very strong’ message to US staff where many workers are vaccinated against Covid The chief executive of Morgan Stanley has become the
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World’s biggest furniture retailer found guilty of improperly gathering and storing data on its employees The home furnishings group
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Fashion retailer says revenues grew 32% in three months to May even as Covid-19 lockdowns eased Strong sales of dresses and going-out clothes helped Boohoo capitalise on the
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The agreement, after 17 years, means taxes on $11.5bn of goods will be removed for five years.
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Private detectives and police were paid to deliver personal information on staff and job applicants.
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A survey conducted on behalf of DIY investment platform AJ Bell suggests 7% of Britons bought into cryptocurrencies over the last year.
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CMA says it is looking into whether alleged duopoly is harmful to consumers and businesses Britain’s competition regulator is investigating Apple and Google over allegations the two companies have a harmful duopoly in mobile platforms. Between them, Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android are installed on 99.45% of all mobile phones in use in the UK. The two companies also have effective duopolies in app stores (Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store) and mobile web browsers (Apple’s Safari and Google’s Chrome), according to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).
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The amount of money raised on the capital city's stock market in the first five months of this year is also at its highest since 2015, with the majority arising from secondary listings.
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The trade secretary denies Australian beef imports will flood the UK and says export markets will grow.
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Increasing droughts in producer nations will also make palm oil and soya imports highly vulnerable, study finds Coffee and chocolate supplies in Europe soon could be disrupted by the climate crisis as droughts hit producer countries, according to a study. The research also found a high vulnerability for palm oil imports, used in many foods and domestic products, and soybeans, which are the main feed for chickens and pigs in the European Union.
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Michael O’Leary tells MPs of ‘hostile and threatening’ actions towards flight crew Airlines must remain free to fly over rogue states despite the
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Deal to include 15-year cap on tariff-free imports amid fears over potential flood of cheaper meat
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Employers add jobs as restrictions ease but 550,000 fewer people are in work than before pandemic
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The pact - the first built from scratch since leaving the EU - includes Scotch whisky and biscuits.
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The FTSE 100 listed group, which is often a staple of UK investment funds and pension portfolios, said it 'returned to growth' in the three months to the end of April.
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Analysis: Rishi Sunak has rejected calls to extend furlough – and things could turn much worse when it ends There are danger signs lurking
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Agreement follows concerns from UK farmers about potential flood of cheaper meat
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The fashion chain sees sales growth continue and takes further steps to improve scrutiny of suppliers.
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The number of people in payrolled jobs jumped by almost 200,000 in May as the jobs market continued to recover.
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Nearly one in five Britons - or roughly 10m people - have less than £100 in savings, new research from Yorkshire Building Society has revealed.
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Company says more customers are booking ahead in the hope that Covid will be under control next year Holiday bookings for summer 2022 are “significantly” ahead of normal, according to online travel agent On The Beach, as the prospect of a break in the sun this year recedes. The Manchester-based company reported a 79% fall in revenues to £4.4m in the six months to 31 March, as it felt the effect of travel restrictions. Its adjusted pretax loss shrank to £21.6m from £34.1m, reflecting lower marketing spending.
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The furlough scheme is high on a short list of things that the government has done well during the pandemic, writes James Moore, and the decision not to extend it is unforgivable and will have lasting consequences
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The zero-emissions prototype Defender uses the hydrogen in a fuel-cell chemical reaction to generate electricity which then powers electric motors to drive the wheels of the off-roader.
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The world's first investment trust focused on space technology is set to float in London, giving investors the opportunity to tap into what is set to become a trillion-dollar market.
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Downing Street says the pact means UK Scotch whisky and biscuits will be cheaper to sell to Australia.
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Having bought a home at today's inflated prices, first-time buyers may be left in negative equity when the market cools down. How much of a problem is that, and what can they do to prevent it?
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Fashion retailer says revenues grew 32% in the three months to May as Covid crisis fuels online spending Boohoo has reported further strong sales growth on the back of the
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Houseboats appear to be going through a boom, with some people seeing them as an affordable alternative to the home-buying frenzy. But how much does it really cost to live the riverside dream?
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The government announced a delay in opening up for four weeks
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Buuks.co.uk didn’t make it clear I was being automatically signed up to a subscription charge
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Broad terms of UK-Australia trade deal agreed, BBC understands, with formal announcement expected on Tuesday
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Peter Cowgill questions why they would do this ‘when the company has progressed’
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Travel insurance offering "complete" cover for Covid-related disruption is barely available, says Which?.
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Consumer body rated only two of the 263 policies analysed as ‘complete’
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