Day: December 5, 2024

Map of UK’s disposable income shows exactly how rich your neighbours are thumbnail

Map of UK’s disposable income shows exactly how rich your neighbours are

December 5, 2024

Sarah Hooper Published December 5, 2024 8:36pm Updated December 5, 2024 8:36pm New data has revealed the UK Cities which have the most – and least – disposable income. It’s good news for those who live in Brighton. The coastal city has the highest amount of disposable income, with the average household spending just 45% […]

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Pensioners in part of London given £175 after winter fuel allowance scrapped thumbnail

Pensioners in part of London given £175 after winter fuel allowance scrapped

December 5, 2024

Jasper King Published December 5, 2024 7:03pm Updated December 5, 2024 7:05pm The cut to winter fuel allowance has proved to be a controversial measure introduced by the government but one local council is stepping in to help pensioners. Tower Hamlets Council is offering 1,500 pensioners £175 cash payments to be collected from post offices […]

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10 best Time Out London deals – from Gordon Ramsay dining experience, to all night New Year’s Eve karaoke thumbnail

10 best Time Out London deals – from Gordon Ramsay dining experience, to all night New Year’s Eve karaoke

December 5, 2024

Looking for 10 things to do in London? Luckily, there’s lots to do in this city for cheap! At least… There is now. Metro has teamed up with Time Out to bring you the best deals across the capital. Every Friday, 10 new deals will drop, available in the Metro newspaper, on Metro.co.uk, and on our socials. You’ll […]

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M&S given green light by Angela Rayner to demolish Oxford Street store thumbnail

M&S given green light by Angela Rayner to demolish Oxford Street store

December 5, 2024

Marks & Spencer has been given the green light to demolish its flagship Oxford Street store, ending a fierce three-year planning battle over the art deco building. The housing secretary, Angela Rayner, ruled on Thursday that the plans could go ahead. The retailer wants to rebuild the store as a nine-storey building housing a retail […]

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Woman covers phone case in taramasalata to stop phone snatchers thumbnail

Woman covers phone case in taramasalata to stop phone snatchers

December 5, 2024

Brooke Davies Published December 5, 2024 4:05pm Updated December 5, 2024 4:07pm A woman has taken to covering a mobile case in taramasalata to try and ‘teach phone snatchers a lesson’. Maddie Campion said she was sick of seeing someone’s phone being stolen every day on her commute into work. But instead of falling victim […]

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Legendary London music shop closes after running for 75 years thumbnail

Legendary London music shop closes after running for 75 years

December 5, 2024

Brooke Davies Published December 5, 2024 3:23pm Updated December 5, 2024 3:23pm An iconic music shop which has been selling and restoring instruments to famous musicians for nearly 75 years has closed. Allodi Accordions Ltd in Lewisham, south east London, has been forced to close its doors after owners said it ‘began to take its […]

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Former Scotland rugby captain Stuart Hogg to be sentenced for domestic abuse thumbnail

Former Scotland rugby captain Stuart Hogg to be sentenced for domestic abuse

December 5, 2024

Former Scotland rugby captain Stuart Hogg is due to be sentenced after he admitted abusing his estranged wife over the course of five years. He previously pleaded guilty to a single charge of domestic abuse of his ex-partner, Gillian Hogg, when he appeared at Selkirk Sheriff Court on November 4. He admitted shouting and swearing, […]

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Trial to start of 20-year-old accused of murder of woman on Bournemouth seafront thumbnail

Trial to start of 20-year-old accused of murder of woman on Bournemouth seafront

December 5, 2024

Sian Gray (right) with her wife Amie Gray who died after being stabbed on Durley Chine Beach, Bournemouth at around 11.45pm on May 24. Nasen Saadi, 20, has been charged with murder and attempted murder over the stabbing of Amie Gray and another woman on a Bournemouth beach, Dorset Police said. Issue date: Friday May […]

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Visas rollout: Home Office confirms how long expired travel documents can be used after eVisa problems thumbnail

Visas rollout: Home Office confirms how long expired travel documents can be used after eVisa problems

December 5, 2024

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Mystery of how giant galaxies formed could be close to being solved thumbnail

Mystery of how giant galaxies formed could be close to being solved

December 5, 2024

Galaxies crashing together 12 billion years ago could have caused the universe’s biggest galaxies to form, according to new research. A study by astronomers at the University of Southampton is hoping to solve what they are calling an “intergalactic mystery” of how elliptical galaxies were created up to 12 billion years ago. How these galaxies, […]

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