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    How to make sure that your holiday car rental is a smooth ride

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    UK has almost 1m chargers, with new public one installed every 25 minutes

    Electric vehicle industry says spring data shows installations are keeping pace with rising battery sales
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    Number of agreed UK house sales over past month ‘up 15% on 2023’

    Buyers not fazed by election or Euro 2024, says Rightmove, as ‘gamechanging’ interest rate cuts anticipated
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    Is universal basic income about to transform society?

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    Sales boom ahead of Euros final

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    Couple say new-build home turned into disaster valued at £1

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    Alarm as fraudsters take over handsets and raid accounts

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    Labour’s ‘rooftop revolution’ to deliver solar power to millions of UK homes

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    Consumer champions
    Debt collectors are chasing my 84-year-old mother over a water bill

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    Your problems, with Anna Tims
    American Airlines crew filmed my distress after wheelchair failed to arrive at Heathrow

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    Consumer champions
    Dartford Crossing charge firm told me not to pay, but still fined me £2,230

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Opinion

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    The secret social housing scandal: when your parent dies – and you are evicted in days

    Kwajo Tweneboa
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    Letters
    Even Nigel Farage opposes the two-child cap. Labour must scrap it

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      Labour should scrap two-child benefit cap sooner rather than later

      Larry Elliott
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      Labour can end austerity at a stroke – by ta xing the rich and ta xing them hard

      George Monbiot
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      The Guardian view on the two-child cap: scrap this nasty policy

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    Homes to watch sport from in England

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    Homes under £350,000 for first-time buyers in England

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    Homes for sale in England with wartime connections

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    Homes for sale in England and Wales with a kitchen garden

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    House prices: what do the different indices show?

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    Factsheet: Buying a home

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    Disused Lloyds office sites to be converted into social housing

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    Number of agreed UK house sales over past month ‘up 15% on 2023’

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      Debt collectors are chasing my 84-year-old mother over a water bill

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      Sarah lost her savings to a ‘money mule’ scam. She says Australia’s big banks have brushed her off

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      Water bills in England and Wales: how much more might you be paying?

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      Rise of £94 in water bills over five years is ‘bitter pill’, says chancellor

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