UK has moved out of recession, official figures show
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe UK is officially out of recession after figures showed the economy grew by 0.6% in the first three months of the…
Home repossessions jump as households ‘remain under pressure’ from higher rates
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe number of homeowner-mortgaged properties being repossessed jumped by more than a third in the first quarter of this year compared with…
Interest rate held for sixth consecutive month - but edges closer to cut soon
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Bank of England has edged closer to a cut in interest rates, with another member of its nine-person Monetary Policy Committee…
Rishi Sunak faces election blow as 900,000 voters brace for ‘mortgage nightmare’
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteRishi Sunak faces a “reckoning” at the polls as 900,000 homeowners brace for mortgage rises before a possible November general election. Read…
Kids so hungry they're 'eating rubbers or hiding empty lunchboxes' due to lack of free school meals
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteChildren are so hungry they are eating rubbers or pretending to eat from empty lunchboxes because they don’t qualify for free school…
Nine new tenants registered for each rental home in March, says report
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn March, there were nearly ‘nine new tenants registered for each available rental home’, as demand continues to surpass the supply, according…
Four new cost of living payments to be paid in June and July to struggling households
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteSome households in the UK are set to receive up to four new cost of living payments in a bid to alleviate…
Lagos sate govt discovers ‘86 rooms’ under bridge where tenants paid N250,000 a year as rent
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Lagos state Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, says the state government has uncovered 86 partitioned rooms, sized 10×10…
Migrants hit by high fees to send money home
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteJerry Lukendo Mbokani has to make several calculations when he sends money to his elderly mother in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
This is how much it costs to raise a child in 2024
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe cost of raising children has soared over the course of the past decade, leaving many parents struggling to make ends meet. …