11 h. ago Martin Lewis issues urgent energy meter warning as 'switch off' looms

The consumer expert has warned that households with a certain type of energy meter may see their heating and hot water stop working properly if they don't act now

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33 h. ago Martin Lewis issues warning to 300,000 UK households over hot water from end of June

Money Saving Expert Martin Lewis has issued a warning to over 300,000 households across the UK over their electricity meters - with people urged to act fast

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33 h. ago Martin Lewis issues warning as over 300,000 UK households could lose hot water access within weeks

A certain type of electricity meter is scheduled to switch off completely from June 30

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63 h. ago Doctor explains why you should never have an 'excessively hot' shower

Dr Max Maddahali has issued a warning to anyone who enjoys a scorching hot shower, as the doctor says the water temperature can cause a range of health issues

Politics

3 d. ago Howzat for a view? Dream flats that give owners one of the most coveted views in cricket with terrace overlooking the Oval go on sale

The plush properties at Oval Mansions offer exceptional views of the Oval in south London and have now gone up for sale for between £400,000 and £600,000.

Politics

5 d. ago Hot tub horror as mother, 24, suffers fatal burns after hitting her head and falling into scalding water

Mother-of-one Gabriele Cristine Barreto de Freitas, 24, died in hospital after suffering third degree burns when she hit her head and fell unconscious hot tub in a hotel in Brazil.

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6 d. ago Sam Thompson reveals Ben Shephard’s advice helping him push through injury in Soccer Aid challenge

EXCLUSIVE: The TV and radio favourite says he’s a ‘broken man’ as he enters the penultimate day of his gruelling 260-mile challenge — but vows to ‘hobble’ to the finish line if he has to, having already raised over £600,000

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7 d. ago Five Turner works to be auctioned on 250th anniversary of painter’s birth

A watercolour titled Lake Brienz, With The Setting Moon, is estimated to fetch between £600,000 and £800,000.

Economics

7 d. ago Octopus Energy issues urgent warning to households which will see meters deactivated this month

The equipment which broadcasts the signal will be switched off on 30 June – which will affect more than 600,000 customers

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7 d. ago Homeowners with garden fences told to 'contact council' or risk £20,000 fine

New rules came in last week under The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 give households guidance - here's all you need to know

Economics

8 d. ago The 600,000 homeowners told their hot water could stop working 

Evelyn Francis, 75, has been receiving letters from her energy provider warning that her electricity supply could be cut off at the end of June.

Politics

8 d. ago Lawrence Dallaglio is forced to sell his home for massive £600,000 less than advertised after split from wife: England legend 'now battling to get life back on track'

In the latest blow Dallaglio, 52, has been forced to sell the family home where he watched his children grow up to pay off his creditors. Ironically, the home has been snapped up by an up-and-coming sports star.

Society

8 d. ago Which dips are OK to buy, and which should I make? | Kitchen aide

Our expert panel recommends the dips that are worth whizzing up fresh at home, and which shop-bought options are good to be titivated before servingDips are a great unifier, whether they’re married to a big bowl of crisps and crudites or served as a companion for a picnic spread. If there’s hummus, cacik or borani in the picture, then it’s a party. Happily, says David Carter, founder of Smokestak, Manteca and Oma in London, “you can get a lot of good stuff in stores these days”. That said, he adds, anything involving vegetables is “always going to be best when made fresh”.If your dip needs lead you to the shops, the trick is to create contrast. Much like getting dressed, you first need to consider the temperature. “Let’s say you have some shop-bought hummus,” Carter says. “If you put that in a pan with a bit of hot water and maybe some lemon juice, then whisk, the hummus will loosen, turn creamy and completely change from the usual fridge-cold stodge.”Got a culinary dilemma? Email f...

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1 week ago Smart doorbell owners may be breaking the law without realising, expert warns

Make sure you know the rules to avoid getting in hot water with the law

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1 week ago Prison officer attacked with boiling hot water in high security jail in latest outrage blighting prison safety

The officer was scalded with liquid straight from a kettle after he entered an inmate's cell at HMP Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire.

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2 w. ago Men who tried to smuggle nearly £600,000 of cannabis from Canada to UK jailed

Both men had two suitcases, each containing hundreds of illegal packages

Economics

2 w. ago Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton's AMAs performances spark fury from angry fans who claim 'we've been lied to'

Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton are in hot water after angering fans with their performances at the American Music Awards on Monday night.

Politics

2 w. ago Adults review – Friends for the TikTok generation sitcom is a try

A group of twentysomethings living in New York (except it’s Toronto) pratfall through life in an often embarrassing and rarely funny attempt to fill a gapAdults, FX’s new twenty-something comedy implicitly pitched as the Friends or Girls for the TikTok and location-sharing generation, opens with a studiously replicated scene of codependent young adulthood: five friends tangled together on a New York subway, their belongings and in-group references strewn between each other. In barely a minute, the characters gab in the way you’d imagine adult-adults imagine young-adults speak, breezing through exposition, getting high, being broke and not having enough hot water to shower. This being New York, there’s also a subway masturbator, which Issa (Amita Rao), the loudest and bawdiest of a loud and bawdy group, handles by over-engaging, attempting to out-masturbate the creep. “Is this the world you want?!” she shouts, to the horror of everyone else on the train.To my horror, as well – there’...

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2 w. ago Almost 6,000 Ayrshire households at risk of losing heating and hot water

The signal which controls radio teleswitch meters, or RTS meters, will be switched off on June 30 and thousands of people in Ayrshire are still to have theirs replaced.

Society

2 w. ago Attack of the megasheds: The homeowner who has lost more than half a million pounds as 1.17million sq ft warehouse for The Range ruins views of rolling farmland

Ken Lungley, 79, enjoyed views over rural Suffolk farmland that teemed with deer and hares. Now his view is of the sprawling warehouse.

Society