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Bank announces 3% cash back on Amazon offer – with a 5% interest rate for account holders

express– Amazon.co.uk shoppers will be able to take advantage of a new offer from the digital bank Chase as it announced plans to help Amazon shoppers this festive period. The Chase current account already offers customers one percent cashback on all eligible debit card spend for 12

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Peter Jackson sells visual effects firm for $1.6bn to Unity

bbc– Part of the New Zealand-based visual effects studio co-founded by Oscar-winning director Sir Peter Jackson has been sold for $1.6bn (£1.2bn). A division of Weta Digital, which has worked on films including Lord of the Rings and Avatar, is being bought by video games software company Unity. Unity’s technology is behind games such as […]

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Cash machine warning as Britons see money cleverly stolen at ATM – police issue alert

express– The scam has been highlighted by the Metropolitan Police on Twitter after a series of attacks in south London. One man, who remains anonymous, said that he thinks he disturbed the thieves as he waited by the cash point after his money didn’t surface. The man took to Reddit to warn others and said: […]

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Cost of living causing Brits to cut back ahead of Christmas

express– Households plan to cut back on or stop buying popular varieties of food and drink amid concern about rising prices. Many people are planning to buy not only fewer luxury items but less meat, fish and cheese. The polling by Survation found that nearly seven out of 10 people (69 percent) have been personally […]

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Grandparents could boost state pension sum by £2,340 per year – how to do it

express– Millions of pensioners rely on their state pension income to support them in retirement. With the cost of living continuing to rise, maximising the amount of state pension one can receive is crucial, but many people could be missing out on an extra sum. By completing a simple check, Britons could find out if […]

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Copper market COLLAPSES after ‘crazy’ price changes: London Metal Exchange in emergency

express– Due to record highs of copper, the London Metal Exchange has introduced measures to maintain “orderliness and continued liquidity”. In context, the price of copper per tonne has now reached $1,000. The previous high for the market had been $330 per tonne in 1996-97. Such is the dire situation for the market, Bloomberg correspondent […]

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Trade associations urge Sunak to overhaul ‘unfair’ business rates

independent– The chancellor Rishi Sunak must urgently reform the country’s “unfair” and “unproductive” business rates system, dozens of trade associations have said. In a statement, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and 41 business groups, which represent a total of 9 million employees, urged the Treasury to tackle the issue in this month’s Budget. The

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Revealed: Hospitals face ‘severe’ shortages of medical supplies ahead of winter due to Brexit and Covid

independent– Hospitals are experiencing shortages of essential medical equipment triggered by a combination of Brexit and the impact of the pandemic on global supply chains, The Independent can reveal. Manufacturers and suppliers of beds, lifts and life-saving defibrillators have also warned of being under “unparalleled pressure” due to the supply chain crunch this

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‘A wake-up call!’ Inheritance Tax warning as Britons urged to act to avoid high bill

express– Inheritance Tax, a levy charged on the value of an estate above a certain threshold, is just one of the myriad of administrative issues people will have to deal with when their loved one dies. However, these issues can be made unnecessarily complex if people fail to take preventative measures ahead of time to […]

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State pension: Savers warned they could face ‘nasty surprise’ with huge tax bill

express– The state pension looks set to increase by £300 this year according to experts, despite the fact the triple lock was suspended by the Government. With average earnings figures being ignored, the pension increase will be ‘double-locked’: in line with the highest of inflation or 2.5 percent. Currently, economists expect the rate of Consumer […]