2 h. ago These groups of people who can get BBC TV licence for free – saving £174.50 a year

The TV licence was hiked up to £174.50 earlier this year and there are four groups of people who can watch TV for free, or can reduce their bill to zero. See if you can get it for free

Economics

5 h. ago BBC TV licence rules and what you must not do after man taken to court

The rules surrounding TV licensing can be confusing, but this is what you need to know about watching TV legally

Events

6 h. ago BBC TV licence: Four groups of people who don't need to pay £174.50 fee

You need a TV licence to watch or record live TV, or to watch anything - whether it is live, or catch-up - on BBC iPlayer

Economics

25 h. ago Warm Home Discount Scheme to expand and pay six million people £150 this winter

A further 240,000 households in Scotland will receive the energy bill boost this winter.

Economics

53 h. ago Mastercard compensation payments DELAYED as new legal challenge launched

The payment card provider has agreed to pay £200million to settle a case against it - with millions of people due up to £70 each

Politics

3 d. ago People will soon have to pay at these council car parks which up until now have been free

Thousands signed a petition against the move, but the council has said the charges will make the system fairer and offset costs of running the car parks

Politics

6 d. ago Voices: If the BBC licence fee is scrapped, Doctor Who should disappear behind a paywall

Radical new plans to overhaul BBC funding could link the price of your house with how much you pay for your TV licence. I’ve got an even better idea, says Clair Woodward

Events

8 d. ago People urged to check P60 this month for tax code error worth up to £1,500

Employees are being urged to check an important form which was sent to them at the end of last month.

Economics

8 d. ago BBC licence fee cost may now be determined by value of house in new proposal

BBC Chairman Samir Shah has suggested that the current fee of £174.50 should be revised for some households.

Politics

2 w. ago The stunning Swiss village that is offering people £15,000 to move there and it will even pay your expenses

A stunning village in Switzerland that boasts views of the Alps is offering pay people to relocate there, but there is a big catch.

Economics

2 w. ago Nearly half of Americans say tipping has ‘gotten out of control’

Sixteen percent of people said they’d pay higher prices if tipping were eliminated

Politics

2 w. ago Nearly 9 million people of State Pension age will pay tax on retirement income this year

The Personal Allowance will be frozen at £12,570 until April 2028.

Economics

2 w. ago TV Licence fee scams: how to spot ‘urgent payment’ scams and what genuine BBC licence fee emails look like

Double check the TV Licence email you just received is genuine or not 🚨

Politics

2 w. ago BBC Director General Tim Davie pushes for higher licence fee

The Director General has pressed for the Government - including Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy - to give extra backing, as he complained about 'grinding' cuts.

Politics

2 w. ago BBC boss backs licence fee ‘reform’ to secure funding for the broadcaster

The broadcasting chief also said he wanted an investigation into ‘grinding cuts’ over the past decade

Economics

2 w. ago ‘Publishing is a dream, but this has also been one of the hardest years of my life ’: Palestinian author Yasmin Zaher

The novelist has been awarded the Dylan Thomas prize for young writers. She talks about giving up medical training to pursue fiction – and the childhood memories that inspired her winning debut, The CoinBuying a Birkin bag is not easy. You can’t just waltz into an Hermès store and pluck one off the shelf, even if you’re prepared to drop the many thousands required to pay for it. “The great majority of people are refused a Birkin, they get told that there aren’t any available in the store, which is a lie, they just don’t want to give it to them,” explains the protagonist of Palestinian writer Yasmin Zaher’s debut novel The Coin, which this month won the Swansea University Dylan Thomas prize for authors aged 39 or under.Zaher’s unnamed narrator, a Palestinian woman living in New York, has to get to grips with Hermès’s exclusive and elusive sales policies – which seem to privilege loyal customers – after being drawn into a Birkin reselling operation. Conti...

Culture

2 w. ago Shocking ways people pay 'single tax' without even realizing

The so-called 'singles tax' is very real, and it's not just coming for your dating life - it's hitting your budget, too.

Economics

3 w. ago Heartless conmen who dressed as Pudsey Bear to steal more than £500,000 of money people thought was for charity are ordered to pay back £100,000

The gang was led by David Levi who would wear the beloved Children In Need's yellow bear costume outside supermarkets to con shoppers into making phony donations.

Economics

3 w. ago Gorgeous cove is so beautiful people travel from all over the world to see it

The World Heritage Site is so well-known people come from all over the world to pay it a visit. The beach also welcomes dogs all year round, making it a perfect spot for a family day out

Politics

4 w. ago Quinie: Forefowk, Mind Me review – collecting songs on horseback, this Scottish musician is alive with ideas

(Upset the Rhythm)With folk songs gathered from a gallop across Argyll, Josie Vallely’s album is a resonant tribute to her ancestral landTravellers’ songs sung in Scots are the focus of Josie Vallely, a gutsy, Glasgow-based artist performing as Quinie (pronounced “q-why-nee”; “young woman” in the Doric dialect), whose third album acknowledges ancestors watching over her. It includes traditional singers Lizzie Higgins, Jeannie Robertson and Sheila Stewart, whose rawness drones, speaks and soars over these 11 varied tracks, mixing tunes from fiddles, Gaelic sean-nós singing, and canntaireachd (the vocal mimicry of pipe music).Quinie collected these songs from people using a method that fits the album’s strange, rustic mood: she rode her horse, Maisie, across Argyll (“you pay attention to all your senses, have different conversations with people and connect to older ways of doing things,” she writes in the liner notes of this journey; she’s also made a 15-minute film). On Auld Horse, h...

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