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You've finally manage to find a date that works for everyone and even picked a venue for dinner. But, you've never been there before? Are you going to have a sneaky peek at their online menu, or do you just turn up on the night and take it from there?
Here's a pulp thriller for you. Second only to the divisive nature of Marmite, there's another love it/hate it food debate that has raged on for eons...which do you find most a-peel-ing: orange juice with the bits in or without?
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Sometime this morning my Octopus Mini stopped connecting to my iphone. The light on the mini is white, the message on the app is "Nothing here yet", as though the mini has just been set up. Has anybody else had this and how did you cure it? I'm reluctant to try and reboot, as when we moved broadband and I had to re-connect…
If you get Child Benefit and earn over £60,000 a year, you may now be able to pay the high-income tax charge through your tax code thanks to a long-awaited new service. The change means 10,000s will no longer have to file self-assessment tax returns just to pay this charge. Here's what you need to know. Read the full…
Good afternoon Parking ticket issued in BP petrol station East Midlands Airport for less than 5 Minutes parking on Parking bay at 4 a.m. I was the driver and I suffer from Multiple Sclerosis, relapsing and remitting. I had my parking booked at airport parking but when I approached the roundabout I had a relapsing attack…
Where to start! My life has not been without challenges and I have had times where I’ve had a lot of debt, and times where I have had none. I always felt proud to say I have never missed a payment and always managed to get out of a sticky situation myself no matter what. But this time, I am not convinced I will find a way,…
Hi, In recent months UC pushed up my minimum work hours from 30 to 35. I'm a single parent with a six year old. I'm self employed and this change has pushed my minimum income floor up to £1400+. When it happened I thought it would be doable to earn but it's a struggle. The main issue is finding 35 hours a week to work.…
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Four regulators have joined forces to tackle bad behaviour from claims firms, including not giving consumers enough information, charging excessive fees and running misleading adverts.
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