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• London Gatwick is UK’s worst airport for flight delays, figures show

  21-04-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  CAA data shows flights departed more than 23 minutes late last year, with Birmingham and Manchester second and third-worstLondon Gatwick is the UK’s worst airport for flight delays, official figures showed, with air traffic control issues blamed for continuing disruption.In 2024, flights departed on average more than 23 minutes late from Britain’s second-biggest airport, according to data from the Civil Aviation Authority. Continue reading...
  
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• Anyone with home insurance urged to act now

  18-05-2025 12:08 via express.co.uk
  
  Home owners with jewellery and other high-value items are being warned their insurance may not cover the cost of replacing them.
  
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• Harry Potter legend JK Rowling admits one heartbreaking image led her to huge decision

  18-05-2025 11:17 via express.co.uk
  
  JK Rowling has opened up on the moment she saw a picture of a young boy in a cage that moved her so much that she has since donated £63 million.
  
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• Virgin Money mortgage customers left raging after Nationwide takeover

  18-05-2025 09:53 via express.co.uk
  
  Borrowers with Virgin Mortgages will not have access to the same deals as Nationwide customers despite the two lenders now being part of the same company.
  
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• Beware 'affordable housing' - I’m trapped in unsellable home with a £6,861 service charge

  18-05-2025 08:00 via express.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Residents in an affordable housing block have been sent letters demanding up to £3,137 more per year in service charges
  
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• Anyone with a Lloyds or Barclays savings account urged to make this change

  18-05-2025 07:30 via express.co.uk
  
  Big name banks have been changing their rates recently after a decision from the Bank of England
  
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• UK households urged to unplug 3 'vampire appliances' draining bank accounts

  18-05-2025 07:00 via express.co.uk
  Three vampire appliances will drain your bank account - so you need to unplug them now -say experts.
  
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• Pensioners could boost benefit payments by £146 a month

  18-05-2025 07:00 via express.co.uk
  
  People may be unaware they're eligible for a higher payment rate.
  
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• DWP says many pensioners could be missing out on £700 a year

  17-05-2025 15:20 via express.co.uk
  The Department for Work and Pensions has published figures showing that one in 10 Pension Credit claimants are missing out on their share of around £100 million
  
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• Savers have just two days to open savings account paying 5.37% – but there's a catch

  17-05-2025 14:39 via express.co.uk
  An account paying over 5% a year for 30 years with tax-free benefits is on offer but savers are warned they have just days to act.
  
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• State pensioners urged to fill in this DWP form to claim £7,800

  17-05-2025 14:00 via express.co.uk
  Hundreds of thousands of people have been affected by the issue
  
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• The Guardian’s happiest places to live in Britain revealed

  17-05-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  What makes for a great place to live? Access to nature, a sense of community and culture on your doorstep can all help. So which towns make the cut?
  • Homes in happy places to buy or rent in England and Scotland – in picturesWhat makes a place somewhere good to live? Where might we be happiest if we had the choice of going anywhere? It’s an almost impossible question, as we do not all thrive on the same things, but there are some that are universally agreed to be conducive to ch
  
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• Homes to buy or rent in the Guardian’s happiest places to live in England – in pictures

  17-05-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  From Georgian grandeur in York to a detached home with slope-defying garden in Lewes, properties to make you smile
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• 'I'm a personal finance expert and here's my 4-point plan to save cash ISAs'

  17-05-2025 12:35 via express.co.uk
  A financial expert has urged the government to do 'four things' that would keep the benefits of cash ISAs for savers and get many Brits saving even more.
  
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• Split payments and second jobs: how music festival fans afford soaring costs

  17-05-2025 11:00 via theguardian.com
  As festivalgoers do whatever it takes to pay for the summer season, struggling organisers innovate to sell ticketsFrom Monday to Friday, Jessica Heath works as a civil servant in central London – but when the weekend comes, it’s not time to relax. For the past two years, the 28-year-old has also worked evening shifts most Saturdays and Sundays at a nearby wine bar, with one clear aim – to save up for her summers.Heath has been a huge music festival fan since she first went to L
  
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• Virgin Money mortgage holders cry foul over owner Nationwide’s better deals

  17-05-2025 08:01 via theguardian.com
  Building society offer means Virgin customers pay nearly £1,000 more in fees despite lender owning both brandsSome Virgin Money customers are crying foul over the fact that Nationwide borrowers are being offered better-value mortgage deals, even though they are now part of the same group.Nationwide bought Virgin Money last autumn, but the brands remain separate and some Virgin mortgage-holders claim that when it comes to moving on to a new deal, they are being treated as second-class citiz
  
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• Controversial ‘dynamic pricing’ model revealed in FA Cup final seat sales

  17-05-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Exclusive: Seat Unique, a firm backed by stars including England captain Harry Kane, charged more than £3,000 for two seatsControversial “dynamic pricing” has arrived in English football, the Guardian can reveal, after a company backed by sports stars including the England men’s football captain, Harry Kane, charged more than £3,000 for two seats at the FA Cup final.Seat Unique, which sells VIP hospitality packages for events, has won endorsements and even financial
  
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• Cash Isas: ministers sound out City bosses on cutting £20,000 tax-free allowance

  16-05-2025 13:56 via theguardian.com
  Investment firms say scaling back tax breaks would help UK stocks, but banks and public are wary of changeBusiness live – latest updatesTreasury ministers are sounding out City bosses on cutting the £20,000 tax-free allowance on popular cash Isas, as they consider how to incentivise investment in UK stocks and revive the London Stock Exchange.The City minister, Emma Reynolds, called a meeting with senior executives from six of the UK’s largest banks and building societies befor
  
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• Homes for sale with stylish interiors in England – in pictures

  16-05-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  From internally remodelled Georgian home in West Sussex to a cacophony of colour in east London, cool properties Continue reading...
  
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• Poor building standards add £1,000 to energy bills of new homes, analysis finds

  16-05-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  About £5bn more spent than if rules for low-carbon new-builds had not been scrapped in 2016, ECIU thinktank findsPeople living in newly built homes are being hit with energy bills that are nearly £1,000 a year higher than need be because of the poor standards to which they have been constructed.Occupants of homes built in the past seven years have paid about £5bn more in energy bills than they would have if regulations requiring new homes to be low-carbon had not been scrapped
  
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• Nasal tanning sprays linked to skin cancer, trading standards officers warn

  16-05-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Demand for ‘dangerous and unregulated’ tan-enhancing sprays being driven by influencers, watchdog saysNasal tanning sprays linked to cancer and respiratory problems and other unsafe cosmetic products pose one of the biggest threats to consumers, trading standards officers have warned.Demand for these “dangerous and unregulated” tan-enhancing sprays, which is being driven by influencers on social media, could mirror the rapid rise of youth vaping, the Chartered Trading Sta
  
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• Wealthy Britons avoiding more tax than previously thought, spending watchdog says

  16-05-2025 01:01 via theguardian.com
  NAO says tax gap for rich individuals may be much more than £1.9bn and urges ministers to redouble effortsWealthy individuals in Britain could be avoiding more tax than had been thought, the government’s spending watchdog has said, after a dramatic fall in the number of penalties being issued to the super-rich.In a report urging ministers to redouble their efforts to secure more of the money owed by wealthy people to the exchequer, the National Audit Office (NAO) said billions of pou
  
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• Edinburgh tops list as US housebuyers eye a UK home

  16-05-2025 01:00 via theguardian.com
  US inquiries at eight-year high with Glasgow also in top 10, estate agents sayInquiries from people in the US about buying a home in Britain are at an eight-year high, with Edinburgh topping the list, new data shows.Hard on the heels of figures showing US applications for UK citizenship are at record levels, Rightmove, the property website, said that since the start of the year the number of inquiries from North Americans about UK homes for sale was up 19% on the same period last year. Continue
  
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• The Guardian view on green homes: solar panels and heat pumps should be a bare minimum | Editorial

  15-05-2025 19:30 via theguardian.com
  Ministers must resist pressure to relax environmental standards in the rush for new housingAlmost two decades after the last Labour government announced a zero carbon homes standard, and with the breaking of temperature records around the world now so normal as to seem routine, it ought to be uncontroversial that new buildings should be as environmentally friendly as possible. Given everything we know about global heating, and the law obliging the UK to reach net zero by 2050, it is disturbing t
  
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• The Guardian view on Europe’s growing wealth divide: back to the world of Balzac | Editorial

  15-05-2025 19:25 via theguardian.com
  A new study highlights the dangers of a modern rentier capitalism that perpetuates inequality through the generationsIn a recent study picked up in the French press, the academic Mélanie Plouviez cites one of her country’s best-loved novelists to make a damning point. The power of inherited and unearned wealth in the France of 2025, she argues, replicates the social injustices found in Honoré de Balzac’s 19th-century chronicles of ambition and despair. As in the 1820s,
  
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• Energy bill defaults hit record high, says ONS

  15-05-2025 19:21 via theguardian.com
  Figures show households struggling, with 2.7% of direct debits for gas and electricity failing due to lack of funds Business live – latest updatesA record proportion of British households were unable to pay their energy bills by direct debit last month because there was not enough money in their bank accounts, according to official government data.More than 2.7% of direct debit payments for gas and electricity defaulted in April due to insufficient funds, the latest figures published by th
  
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• DWP confirms State Pension boost for thousands - but it's not much

  15-05-2025 14:31 via express.co.uk
  
  The additional state pension amount will add just over £1 a month to payments
  
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• Martin Lewis gives ISA £4,000 alert and says 'everyone should have one'

  15-05-2025 13:47 via express.co.uk
  
  Personal finance expert spoke out on BBC podcast adding 'I would absolutely be putting money in there'
  
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• TSB Bank offers customers vital and ‘free’ access to app to ‘boost’ personal safety

  15-05-2025 13:35 via express.co.uk
  
  The announcement builds on the bank's existing support for domestic abuse victims, including an emergency fund and safe spaces to talk.
  
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• Halifax to close 10 branches across UK in June - full list

  15-05-2025 13:22 via express.co.uk
  
  Halifax has confirmed the closure of 10 of its bank branches in June, with further closures later this year.
  
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