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    Broadband
    UK advertising watchdog cracks down on misleading price ads

  • Woman filling a glass of water from a chrome tap

    Household bills
    Water companies in England and Wales told to pay £158m penalty to customers

  • Students walk along a corridor carrying books at Royal High School Bath private school

    VAT
    Plans to add levy to private school fees won’t be delayed, says minister

    James Murray reaffirms timetable despite many in the sector calling for changes to be deferred until September 2025

  • Fraud
    ‘My father was devastated’: family battles to recover thousands stolen in email scam

  • Housing
    Family of deceased tenant refused entry to property containing life’s work

  • Shopping
    Oasis ticket sales push UK non-essential spending to highest level this year

  • Environment
    The scandal of food waste – and how we can stop it

  • Recycling
    Britons urged to dig out unwanted electricals to tackle copper shortage

  • Autumn budget
    Reeves opts to not raise tax on pension contributions

  • ‘Doesn’t feel fair’
    Young Britons struggle with losing right to work in EU since Brexit

  • Lincolnshire
    Woman has stunt rider job application returned 48 years later

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Expert advice

  • Being an 'author' was an 'unacceptable risk' for John Lewis car insurance.

    Your problems, with Anna Tims
    I was written off by John Lewis for car insurance because I’m an author

  • A beach in St Lucia with palm trees and parasols

    Your problems, with Anna Tims
    BA ruined a £13,000 trip to St Lucia for my grieving daughters

  • Barclays took its time providing the go-ahead for a ported mortgage.

    Consumer champions
    Barclays delayed porting our mortgage but we still have to pay £13,000

  • Trying to claim on insurance after a travel trip was cut short.

    Consumer champions
    A death certificate isn’t enough ‘proof’ for travel insurance to meet my claim

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Spotlight

  • Icon of the Seas, the world’s largest cruise ship, with lots of people, pools and fairground ride-like structures on it, heads away from Miami, Florida, with skyscrapers and buildings on either side of the waterway

    Never-ending odyssey
    The rise of perpetual cruises that offer the very wealthy a new home at sea

    After numerous delays, the Odyssey finally sets sail from Belfast for three-and-a-half years – but what drives people to spend a fortune living full-time on luxury liners?

Opinion

  • Little boy looking out of a window

    Editorial
    The Guardian view on privatised care failures: a service crying out for change

  • A heating technician installs a heat pump on the side of a building.

    Letters
    Heat pump transition is nothing but a money grab

    • Keir Starmer

      Labour must ensure benefits of future growth are shared equally across Britain

      Larry Elliott
    • A Paris waiter waits for customers outside his restaurant, Paris, France.

      Tipping culture is annoying, unfair and worst of all American – and now it’s coming to Paris

      Alexander Hurst
    • Dom Mckenzie The Observer Comment EV cars web version

      Four years after buying an electric car, why am I still forced to play hunt-the-charger?

      Ros Coward
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  • Cottage surrounded by woodland in Fittleworth, West Sussex.

    Fantasy house hunt
    Homes for sale close to British woodland

  • Art deco Exeter House in Putney, London.

    Fantasy house hunt
    Art deco homes for sale

    From a grand six-bedroom Grade II-listed fort-like property, to a studio in a block used in a TV adaptation of an Agatha Christie novel
  • Grade II-listed Clarks Mill in Trowbridge, Wiltshire

    Fantasy house hunt
    Homes with incentives for first-time buyers in England

    From a £5,000 John Lewis voucher to £500 a month towards the mortgage or a straight £10,000 to spend your way
  • FHH: stylish extensions : Allerton, Liverpool, Merseyside

    Fantasy house hunt
    Homes in England with stylish extensions

  • An Edwardian home in bustling Moseley, close to Birmingham city centre.

    Fantasy house hunt
    Family homes for sale in super suburbs of England and Scotland

  • Townhouse in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, with a sitting room drenched in bottle green.

    Fantasy house hunt
    Homes for sale with bold interiors

  • Sanda Island with a sheltered bay flanked by rockface and hills.

    Fantasy house hunt
    Homes for sale with (or on) islands around the UK

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On this site

  • A man wearing large glasses with a big grey beard looks into the camera

    Property
    Family of deceased tenant refused entry to property containing life’s work

  • A woman looks distracted and pensive as she lies on a bed holding a mobile phone

    Mortgages
    The solo penalty, from rent to holidays: ‘Being single is costing me £12,000 extra a year’

    • Consumer affairs
      UK advertising watchdog cracks down on misleading broadband price ads

    • Pensions
      The solo penalty, from rent to holidays: ‘Being single is costing me £12,000 extra a year’

    • Savings
      How to make the most of the forgotten thousands in child trust funds

    • House prices
      UK house prices rise for third month in a row to near record high

    • Money
      ‘It is a lot cheaper for couples’: single people feel penalised on prices

    • Scams
      UK banks given extra three days to delay payments in effort to beat scams

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