9 h. ago Tesco's best value meal deal worked out by Daily Star man who saves whopping amount

EXCLUSIVE: The Daily Star has revealed Tesco's top meal deal combinations and our own lunchtime choices having investigated how hoards of hungry Brits can save the most money on their selections

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15 h. ago I moved from the UK to Montpellier, the 'Brighton of France'

Hannah Milnes, from Salisbury, says that Montpellier is 'an extremely popular place to move to right now', adding that it's a city that 'pulses with energy'.

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33 h. ago The best times to use your tumble dryer to slash energy bills and save money

With the cost of living crisis hitting many households across the UK, Brits are looking for ways to save money and reduce their energy bills - and even the time of day you use your tumble dryer can affect the cost

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56 h. ago This simple Vinted trick can help avoid unwanted messages when shopping for second

Here's a handy trick for avoiding excess messages on Vinted

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59 h. ago Simple trick can save Brits travelling to France, Spain, or Italy up to £360

Ahead of the Easter break, Which? has revealed the huge savings that can be made on airport parking if you buy in advance - rather than turning up on the day and paying on arrival

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3 d. ago Save yourself from stagflation! It's making you poorer every day you don't act... now Britain's top money experts tell exactly what to do: ANNE ASHWORTH

Brace yourself. Suddenly the S-word is everywhere and it is bad news for your finances. The word in question is Stagflation. It is a toxic mix of lower output, higher unemployment and stubbornly rising prices.

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3 d. ago Simple mortgage repayment trick could save you money and pay off loan faster

A lot of people don't realise that they can switch from making monthly mortgage repayments to bi-weekly ones - but this simple change can save you money and help you pay off your loan faster

Economics

3 d. ago An alpine winter feast: cheese, wine and a side dish of snowshoeing in France

A medieval Haute-Savoie village makes a great base for a gourmet break, with delicious comfort food and local wines. And the snowshoeing and skiing aren’t bad either, if you can drag yourself away from the tableThe unmistakable whiff of cow – pungent, but not unpleasant – hit me as soon as I arrived at Ferme Dunoyer above the Haute-Savoie village of Samoëns. Rather than put me off, the scent heightened my appetite for the cheese blowout that was to come.Sat at a wooden communal table inside the pine-walled restaurant run by the farm’s owner, Blandine Dunoyer, I waited for the bonanza of mountain comfort food: fondue savoyarde, tartiflette, raclette, then diots (smoked pork sausages) with polenta. Somehow, I found room for potée savoyarde, a rib-sticking dish of slow-cooked pork shoulder, cabbage and potatoes, then a round of top-notch alpine cheese, reblochon and tomme de savoie, before a creamy blueberry dessert. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Will Dune: Messiah be Villeneuve’s crowning achievement, or the moment the spice runs dry?

Denis Villeneuve has already done the well-nigh impossible, making two brilliant big-screen versions of Dune, but given the history of sci-fi film sequels, another could be a terrifying sandworm too many Hollywood has a long history of making great first sci-fi instalments that slowly turn into pompous, inconsequential, and increasingly mind-numbing dross as the sequels keep rolling. The Matrix went from a revolutionary cyberpunk masterpiece to an interminable slog of a philosophy dissertation in which both humans and machines alike seemed to be forever fighting a losing battle with a CGI hurricane. The Terminator franchise started out as a brutally sleek and sinuous time-travel thriller that plucked at the very heartstrings of the eternal fear of the unknown at the heart of the human condition – yet ended up as the living embodiment of what happens when Hollywood repeatedly tears the living skin off its own dead-eyed robo-franchise, as if stuck in some kind of endless corporate jud...

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5 d. ago Europe tries to shore up fragile unity as it realises it cannot rely on US

Leaders arrive at Paris summit for urgent talks on Ukraine after week that showed how far values have divergedEurope live – latest updatesThey came smiling, but the task was immense. After dozens of summits at which a hesitant and discordant EU had failed to agree on anything like a cohesive plan for the end of the war in Ukraine, this one had, suddenly and vitally, to be different.The leaders of France, Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain and – speaking for the Nordic and Baltic states – Denmark, plus Britain’s prime minister and the heads of Nato and the European Commission and Council, arrived in Paris reeling from a historic week. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Toughest times ever for landlords: Bar boss supports our bid to save Great British pub

The Tyneside-based pub and hospitality boss urges Government support of our call

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5 d. ago The simple trick that will keep your washing machine free of mould

Washing machines can gather dirt and mould in the seal and drum

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5 d. ago Chef's simple trick to make 'irresistible' scrambled eggs every time

Dean Harper, a chef and director at Harper Fine Dining has shared his simple trick to make the perfect scrambled eggs every time - and it couldn't be easier to do

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