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How to handle buying a leasehold property in England and Wales

Keep an eye on forthcoming changes to the law and be ready to ask the…

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Echo Spot review: Amazon’s Alexa takes aim at the bedroom

Smart alarm clock ticks most boxes with distraction-free screen and room-filling sound Amazon’s latest attempt…

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Yorkshire has lowest ratio of bank branches to people in UK, says Which?

Consumer group says 6,161 branches have been shut since 2015 and there are 30 constituencies…

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CrowdStrike apologizes for global IT outage in congressional testimony

Faulty update from cybersecurity company grounded hospitals, airports and payment systems in July A CrowdStrike…

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Winter fuel: thousands more could lose benefit if it becomes means tested, data suggests

A further 175,000 pensioners are likely to stop receiving allowance under such plans, official figures…

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TechScape: Meet the scrappy tech company taking on Slack

As Disney ditches the productivity platform following a data breach, the UK-based open-source tool Matrix…

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Moira Stuart says bank cashier saved her from scam

Broadcaster recounts that she was ‘embarrassed and angry with myself’, having thought she was very…

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Social media owners top global survey of misinformation concerns

Co-founder of expert group says ‘unchecked power of these entities poses grave risk’ to news…

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‘It’s not a solution for teen girls like me’: Instagram’s new under-18 rules met with skepticism

Meta’s changes include making teen accounts private and ‘limiting sensitive content’. Many say it’s not…

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Nationwide to allow first-time buyers to borrow six times their earnings

Building society ramps up mortgage price war with ‘gamechanging’ move, and it also cuts rates…

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