Image copyright Getty Images People who bank with HSBC and Santander are in line for a refund after the finance watchdog ordered them to pay compensation for failing to alert customers who went into the red. The Competition and Market Authority said they broke rules by not sending text messages allowing people to avoid unarranged […]
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Image copyright Getty Images UK drone pilots must register their details with the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) by the end of 29 November or face a fine of £1,000. Anyone responsible for a drone which weighs more than 250g (8.8oz) must register it with the regulator online. The drone operator must be over 18 and
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Image copyright Mapletree Investments Dyson has chosen the historic St James Power Station as the site of its new global headquarters in Singapore. CEO Jim Rowan said the new location would be “a hive for our research and development endeavours”. The firm, headed by British inventor Sir James Dyson, said in January that it was
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption We are now starting the busiest time of year for loan sharks, as people feel under pressure to spend in the Black Friday sales, and on Christmas presents She’d not borrowed a lot. And she’d more than paid it back. Six times over. But when one mother looked up
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Image copyright Harriet Houghton Image caption Harriet Houghton worries about the environmental impact of returning so many clothes Harriet Houghton loves shopping for clothes. There is an excitement, she says, when she discovers something fresh that she feels good in. But because Harriet shops mainly online, she often finds that what looks good on a
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Image caption A fridge recycling plant is recovering plastic to make new appliances As a result of Black Friday many old fridges will be replaced. But what happens to your old fridge, which by law must be disposed of by an approved contractor? Dougal Shaw went to the UK’s largest fridge recycling plant to find
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Annual growth in UK house prices has been below 1% each month for the last year in a relatively stagnant market, a major mortgage lender has said. Prices rose 0.8% in the year to late November, the Nationwide said – a slight pick-up on the previous month. It said the housing market was being affected
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The project will provide vital work for BiFab’s Methil yard, in Fife Scottish companies have won key contracts to build a major wind farm off the coast of Fife. The 54 turbines for the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) site are being assembled at Port of Dundee, while engineering firm
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Image copyright Getty Images The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has been focusing on the spending pledges from the Conservative Party, Labour Party and Liberal Democrats’ manifestos. Even before the general election was called, the government had already set out plans for day-to-day public spending to rise by £34bn a year by 2024. So how
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Image copyright Getty Images TSB has announced the 82 branches it plans to close in 2020, with much of the country affected. Earlier this week, the bank announced there would be closures as part of a plan by new chief executive Debbie Crosbie to make £100m of cost cuts by 2022. The bank said that
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