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A trio of telecoms firms have been accused of overcharging hundreds of thousands of landline-only customers by almost £200m, according to research. Economists at Fideres argue that almost 600,000 UK landline-only customers have been charged “excessive” prices since 2009.more

Travellers arriving in London in the period around the coronation of King Charles III will face "unavoidable disruption", trade union Unite warned yesterday as it announced another strike by security screening staff at Heathrow Airport.more

Lib Dem research finds nine councils where average repair time is four weeks or longer.more

New York City has the world's largest concentration of millionaires. With a result of 340 thousand. This American city is ahead of, among others, Tokyo (290,300) and the San Francisco Bay Area (285,000).more

The cost of British food staples such as cheese, white bread and porridge oats have soared – with one brand of cheddar increasing by 80 per cent in one year. more

Households in Spain are shifting to "survival mode"; the percentage of families with severe financial difficulties, unable to cover basic needs, has risen from 6 percent in 2020 to 11 percent in 2022, according to the OCU consumer organization's annual report published in April.more

Nearly half a million landlords are expected to sell up in the next five years, as the baby boomer generation retires and cashes in their nest eggs. Around 140,000 landlords sold up and left the market last year after reaching retirement age, according to research from estate agent Hamptons. Almost 100,000 a year are expected to follow them for the next half decade.more

One in eight Britons have paid for private health services in the last year, amid frustration with delays in getting NHS treatment and a growing willingness to buy care using salary or savings.more

Supermarket shoppers have long been on the lookout for yellow stickers placed on cut-price products at the end of the aisle that are approaching their best-before date.more

Confidence among finance chiefs at the UK's biggest companies has seen its sharpest rise since 2020. The Deloitte survey of chief financial officers showed sentiment rebounded as their concerns about energy prices and Brexit problems eased. more

Royal Mail and union leaders have come to an initial agreement after a bitter dispute over pay, jobs and conditions. more

The number of international visitors to Ireland over the first three months of the year remained down 16% compared to the same period in 2019, before the pandemic hit.more

British shoppers are switching from fresh to frozen food as they try to keep down spending amid the cost of living crisis, retail data suggests. The soaring cost of the weekly shop has been a significant factor in the squeeze on UK households, with food price inflation running at 18.2% amid high energy prices and shortages of salad vegetable because of bad weather in Europe.more

Hedge funds are among the big winners of the global spike in food prices that followed Russia's invasion of Ukraine; ten of the world's largest funds achieved profits estimated at almost USD 2 billion, notes the British "Guardian".more

The 2022/2023 tax year ended on April 5 and the 2023/2024 tax year began on April 6. People who needed to file a self-assessment tax return should now have completed it. Being aware of the next year’s tax deadlines can help you fully prepare for your tax bill. Find out below the important dates over the next tax year.more

Belgian households will become poorer by €94.5 billion in 2022, the Belgian Central Bank (NBB) reports today. The reason was primarily rising interest rates and falling stock markets.more

Sainsbury's has followed its rival Tesco in cutting the price of its milk. The supermarket said it was reducing the price of its four-pint own brand bottle to £1.55 on Thursday, after Tesco did the same on Wednesday.more

Sixty percent of company heads in Poland expect a moderate slowdown in the global economy, while 40% expect a strong one, according to a survey by EY. One in two respondents expects the slowdown in Poland to be strong, it stressed.more

The UK is set to be one of the worst performing major economies in the world this year, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It says the UK economy's performance in 2023 will be the worst among the 20 biggest economies, known as the G20, which includes sanctions-hit Russia.more

A number of ‘high-risk’ roads in England will be made safer with potentially life-saving new funding. The Department for Transport (DfT) confirmed the news this morning and revealed which areas will benefit.more

Four out of five companies and organisations in Great Britain still pay their male employees more than female ones, according to Guardian analysis of the government’s gender pay gap reporting. more

The report of the UCE RESEARCH analytical and research platform shows that a group of Poles with the so-called franc credit and non-litigation with the bank is currently strongly divided. The survey has been conducted periodically for 3 years. The latest edition showed that as many as 37.9% of franchise holders intend to file a lawsuit against the lender in the near future. more

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Every year, cashless payments break new popularity records, and there are already over 1.2 million POS payment terminals on the Polish market, all of which are adapted to accept contactless and mobile payments. However, there are still so-called White stains.more

In Belgium, supermarket prices rose by a record 20% in March. compared to the previous year. Consumer organizations are demanding that the government freeze prices, reports the Brussels Times.more