29 h. ago Exact age Brits are most likely to say 'yes' to new opportunities

A study of 2,000 adults found the average Brit typically turns something down as often as twice a week - but there's one age where they are most likely to say 'yes'

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34 h. ago Average UK house price drops by over £1,000 in a single month

The housing market is now ‘largely stable,’ experts say

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5 d. ago The 9 places in Scotland where houses prices are rising fastest, including 1 where value has shot up 18.2%

The average house in Scotland is now worth £186,000, the latest figures show, having risen in value by 4.6 per cent over the last year.

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5 d. ago Fire risk warning to households after UK sees hottest spring on record

Experts are urging people to remain vigilant when it comes to fire safety - with the average fire claim involving a garden amounting to nearly £16,000

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5 d. ago Fire risk warning to households after UK basks in sunny spring

The average fire claim involving a garden amounts to nearly £16,000, Aviva said.

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8 d. ago Civil Service spends more than £27million of taxpayers money on equality, diversity and inclusion initiatives in one year

The first full audit of 'Whitehall wokery' reveals that hundreds of equalities staff are employed by the Government on average salaries of £53,000.

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9 d. ago Will megafunds really put an extra £6,000 in the average pension?

Some experts are sceptical about the touted benefits to workers from the UK government’s proposed shake-upAmid all the jargon of the latest announcement on pensions, one number will have leapt out: the claim that the average worker will gain £6,000 in their retirement fund as a result.The figure comes from the government’s final report of its Pensions Investment Review published on Thursday. It lays out plans to shake up defined contribution pensions, the funds that invest workers’ regular payments in stocks, shares and other assets to grow the money. These provide workers with an income on retirement based on the value of their stake; the size of this income will depend on how much they have paid in and how well the investments have performed. Continue reading...

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1 week ago New figures reveal average home sale going for '£16,000 below asking price'

The North West is the hottest housing market for price rises according to the data

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1 week ago Average home sale ‘being agreed at £16,000 below asking price’

Within England, the North West is the hottest housing market for price rises, Zoopla said.

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1 week ago Brits waste £915m a year by making one crucial mistake before they get in shower

A study of 2,000 adults found they spend an average of 11 minutes under the water each day, sometimes for the sole reason of enjoying time to themselves

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1 week ago UK residents lose nearly a billion pounds yearly due to excessive shower habits

A study of 2,000 adults found they spend an average of 11 minutes under the water each day, sometimes for the sole reason of enjoying time to themselves

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1 week ago UK households lose millions by letting showers run unnecessarily, survey finds

A poll of 2,000 adults found they spend an average of 11 minutes under the water each day, sometimes for the sole reason of enjoying time to themselves

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2 w. ago The big house price winners and losers, as value of average home soars by £45,000 in one area

House prices in one area have soared by 18 per cent, while elsewhere they have plummeted by up to 21 per cent

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2 w. ago British house prices leap by an average of £16,000 in just 12 months

The average UK property price is now £271,000, according to the latest House Price Index data for March 2025 which the Office for National Statistics released today.

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2 w. ago Brits working from home could boost pension pot by £236,000, new data claims

Standard Life found that working from home for three days a week reduces the cost of commuting by as much as £2,000 a year on average - a saving that could be put to good use in a pension

Economics

2 w. ago 29% of wedding guests say ‘I don’t’ to ceremonies overseas, survey finds

Experian, which commissioned the research, estimated that the average cost of attending a wedding abroad is nearly £2,000.

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2 w. ago Seven in 10 Brits admit to buying food knowing it will eventually end up in the bin

A study of 2,000 adults found the average person wastes the equivalent of £387 a year on produce that bypasses plates and goes straight in the bin

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2 w. ago HMRC sending letters out to Brits with kids who 'could be owed £5,000'

Officials said they don't know who may be missing out on the cash but said that tens of thousands of people could be due an average of £5,000 in back payments

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2 w. ago Thousands of mums who had kids before 2000 could be in line for huge HMRC payout

The average compensation payout is almost £8,000 and is related to an error that primarily affected women who gave birth in the 80s and 90s due to an error with Home Responsibilities Protection

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3 w. ago It’s not a rich list – it’s gone far beyond that. We need to talk about ‘extreme wealth’ | Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah

We recognise extreme poverty as ruinous, but this turbo-charged affluence is deeply damaging too. Treat it as suchDhananjayan Sriskandarajah is chief executive of the New Economics Foundation and author of Power to the PeopleOnce again, it’s the Hinduja family. Gopi Hinduja and his family, who run the Hinduja Group, are cited as Britain’s richest family in the latest Sunday Times rich list. The big story so far seems to be that their wealth has dropped to £35.3bn from £37.2bn the year before. But that story, and much of the discussion there will be this weekend, risks missing the real story. “Rich list” is barely the right description for the extreme wealth we should be talking about.In 1989, when the Sunday Times first published its annual rich list, to be included someone would need to have 6,000 times the wealth of the average person in the UK. That’s already a pretty big gap – but this has now tripled to more than 18,000 times the average, according to a study by the University ...

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