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Hope all is well Please can you advise why I get page unresponsive or the page is slowing Firefox when I use ChatGPT as the only other thing open is mail, and my accounts package? The laptop is less is just over a year old? As tried edge IE Chrome Firefox get the same, do I need to take the laptop top in for a check up, or…
So as the title suggests, we have an annexe at the bottom of our garden and have discovered the water supply is connected to our neighbours water meter. A bit of background, we purchased the house around 18 months ago with the annexe included as part of the property. The annexe was built by the person we purchased from…
I live in a shared house with 3 leasehold flats and I and other leaseholder A share the freehold 50/50. The remaining leaseholder B tried to buy the share of freehold twice but was not successful as they changed their mind (and I was not happy to accept their changed request either). I had not been impressed with B's…
Thinking of taking up the offer from barclays on the switch offer but from what I’ve read and understand they won’t pay it to anyone who has ever had a current account, is this correct if so is there anyway to find out as I can’t remember and I don’t want to waste a hard search if I’m not gonna get the switch bonus?.…
Copied over from my old diary Hello again from Yorkshire 😁 The move from the south coast went well but it has been hectic since I got here. Spending has been budgeted for van hire £250 diesel £90 train fare for DS to get home £30 new boiler £3600 living room light £32 kettle & toaster £40 New bath towels (sale) £6 Living…
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It's also been confirmed that you'll be able to get automatic compensation from your energy supplier for certain smart meter problems.
The Bank of England said there had been "substantial disinflation over the past two and a half years". It's the third time the base rate has been cut this year.
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