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Consumer confidence at near two-year high as World Cup and UK holidaying lift summer spending
Consumer confidence in the UK rose to its highest level in almost two years in July, driven by England’s run in the men’s football World Cup, a rise in domestic holidaymaking, and easing geopolitical uncertainty. Barclays said the improved mood translated into greater willingness to spend on non-essentials, as people reported feeling more secure in…
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Car hire firm told me I was a ‘no-show’ so I lost £185
An Australian traveller lost £185 after Holiday Autos and its car hire partner at Heathrow wrongly marked her as a “no-show” when her flight was severely delayed, despite her having prepaid and supplied her flight number as required. Forced to hire a larger, more expensive replacement car on the spot, she was then caught in…
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Trump pivots back to sanctions for Iran as other strategies to end his war fizzle
The shift comes as U.S. stockpiles of key weapons have dwindled and as stop-start talks seem again to have stalled. But Trump insists the pressure can lead to a breakthrough.
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They cannot even flush their toilets: life in east London blocks where taps often run dry
Hundreds of residents in nine housing association blocks on the Devons Road estate in Tower Hamlets, east London, have been left without a reliable water supply since Christmas Day last year, with taps frequently running dry for much of the day. The prolonged disruption, which landlord Poplar Harca has been slow to resolve, has left…
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RBA holds rates as ASX reaches record high
The Reserve Bank of Australia held interest rates steady, easing pressure on mortgage holders and other borrowers who had braced for a further increase in borrowing costs. The decision coincided with the Australian share market (ASX) climbing to record highs, suggesting investors welcomed the central bank’s cautious, steady-as-she-goes stance, though the RBA governor made clear…
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Sheffield taxi company owner shares fears attacks are fuelled by ‘racism’
“The kids have got a lot braver, and they are more likely to target drivers in a racist attack”
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Téa Leoni & Tim Daly Say “We Don’t Need An Intimacy Coordinator” On ‘Newlyweds’; Jamie Lee Curtis Shares Her NSFW Title On NBC Comedy
Actors Téa Leoni and Tim Daly, who married earlier this year, are playing an on-screen married couple in the new NBC multi-camera comedy Newlyweds, marking a reunion after previously portraying spouses in the 2014 CBS drama Madam Secretary. Speaking at an NBCUniversal event ahead of the show’s autumn debut, the pair said the casting was…
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“The peak had passed. But some albums kept the flame alive”: What did the 80s ever do for prog?
This is a retrospective feature from Louder revisiting how progressive rock evolved during the 1980s, a decade often seen as a difficult period for the genre after its 1970s heyday. It argues that while prog’s commercial peak had passed, established acts like Pink Floyd, Yes, Jethro Tull and Genesis kept releasing music (with Genesis notably…
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Biggie’s Manager Wins Battle Against Widow Faith Evans, Gains Partial Control Over Rapper’s Catalog
A Delaware Chancery Court judge has ruled in favour of Wayne Barrow, one of the Notorious B.I.G.’s former managers, in his legal dispute with the rapper’s widow, Faith Evans, over control of his music catalogue and estate income. The ruling, the first of two lawsuits concerning Biggie’s intellectual property, found that Evans had wrongly withheld…
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Judge deals blow to Mamdani plan to tax second homes
A judge in Staten Island, N.Y., temporarily blocked New York City Zohran Mamdani’s (D) rollout of a new tax on second homes worth more than $5 million, according to multiple reports. The ruling from Judge Wayne Ozzi, a Democrat on the state’s Supreme Court, required the city to take down a public list of 900,000-plus…