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Cassandra Lishman on how she is trying to avoid draining the planet’s resourcesName: Cassandra LishmanAge: 49Income: £20,000Occupation: Farmer and weaverI live in a pink roundhouse made […]

Demand is growing for a new type of home loan that helps the over-55s facing a shortfall at the end of their existing termA new breed of interest-only mortgage for older people is starting to take […]

One cycle means paying up to £8,000 and the birth rate is just 18%. Despite this, women are increasingly choosing this route Growing numbers of women are choosing to freeze their eggs because […]

I need to travel travel from London to Durham – a rail ticket will be £70 but the bus costs £12Every week a Guardian Money reader submits a question, and it’s up to you to […]

Study warns banks to adapt offerings to help consumers to use mobile or online bankingWith Britons increasingly turning to digital payments, consumers aged over 55 and those on low incomes […]

You sign up online, but when you try to cancel, it’s not so easy Fans of the TV series Friends will remember when Chandler wants to quit the gym. He goes to the health club to cancel his […]

Professor Nicky March picks out some examples from art and literature and explains what they tell us. […]

Prof David Blake of Cass Business School and Prof Edmund Cannon and Prof Ian Tonks of the University of Bristol respond to a piece on last Saturday’s Money pagesPatrick Collinson complains […]

The streets are lined with the homes of your dreams… just don’t expect anything edgyWhat’s going for it? I sense that Winchester has never fallen on particularly hard times – […]

From your weekly shop to your holiday plans, how could a no-deal Brexit affect you? […]

The chains tell the UK competition watchdog they would sell up to 150 supermarkets to be able to merge. […]

The travel firm is cutting more than 300 roles as it closes 21 stores across the country. […]

From peanuts in your pesto to mislabelled fish, food fraudsters are now in the spotlight. […]

Treat yourself like a king with these five properties, from Buckinghamshire to Scotland Continue reading... […]

Highest employment figures on record driven by older people who won’t – or can’t – retireDee Flower tried to retire last year, at the age of 68. It seemed, the former […]

A look at how much the UK government spends on benefits reveals big changes over time. […]

It’s obviously an attempt at a reputation fix, but it’s still a sound principle for help to buyPersimmon described it as a homebuyer’s “retention”, but could have called […]

Investigators found the keyless entry systems can be easily bypassed by thievesHalf of the new cars launched this year have been given a poor security rating after investigators found their keyless […]

Nearly 223,000 fines were issued to parents in 2017-18 as schools clamped down on unauthorised absence. […]

Year on year figure up by 25%, and firms must reimburse victims, says UK FinanceScammers stole £1.2bn from UK bank customers in 2018, according to official data, with a near-500% leap in […]

The theft-risk report from insurer-funded Thatcham Research looks at keyless entry cars. […]

Bank of England says the outlook will depend "significantly on the nature and timing of EU withdrawal". […]

The Bank of England kept interest rates steady on Thursday and said most businesses felt as ready as they could be for a no-deal Brexit that would likely hammer economic growth and jobs. […]

Banks say scam merchants are shifting their attention to conning members of the public directly. […]

Sales at food stores in February saw the biggest fall since December 2016, official figures show. […]

British private-sector employers expect to give staff a basic annual pay rise of 2.5 percent this year, the same as in 2018, though some will delay awards until after government Brexit plans are […]

Within 25 years the country faces a devastating water shortage. Nationalisation can turn the tideThere’s no mistake that the UK is living in uncertain times. We all anxiously await the fate of […]

As a zero-hours contractor I had to take days off for carpet fitting appointments that were missedI contracted Carpetright to carpet my new home. Fitters arrived last September and carpeted the […]

Sweeping the subject of working mothers under the carpet only implies there isn’t a problemThere are times in every parent’s life when, however much they try to avoid it, the professional […]

Lilly was tasered in the shop where she worked, just one of the 115 retail workers attacked every day. […]

HSBC and Lloyds are showing the way, but it’s still one rule for bosses and another for staffAt HSBC and Lloyds in the past week, we’ve been treated to a rare sight: boards deciding not […]

UK prices rose by 1.9% in February, nudged higher by duty on wine and higher food bills. […]

Britain's main inflation rate ticked up last month but stayed close to January's two-year low, helping consumers maintain their spending power as wage growth also picked up, even though the timing […]

Games can offer a window on to other jobs as well as other worlds. Three players explain how their favourite games guided working life choicesBack in 2016, the current Manchester United boss Ole […]

The company moved the berth of our cruise ship to a port 30km away from the cityA group of us booked a four-day P&O cruise from Southampton on 22 March, docking in Amsterdam early Saturday until […]

Advertising chiefs rule people may have felt pressured into taking out a loan by fears of food shortages. […]