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Michael Sheils McNameeBusiness reporter Reuters The rate of UK unemployment has risen to 5% in the three months to September, showing signs the jobs market has weakened, according to new official figures. It is the highest rate since the period covering December 2020 to February 2021, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) –…
Vinted users have been reacting angrily after an update resulted in items being listed as the wrong size. The second-hand shopping app has revised its sizing categories for women’s and children’s clothes but did not contact all users about the change. Many shoppers and sellers have taken to social media saying Vinted listings now show…
Tony HanGlobal China Unit Metropolitan Police Qian Zhemin enjoyed a lavish lifestyle of travel and shopping before UK police discovered her stash of crypto A woman, said by police to have bought cryptocurrency now worth billions of pounds using funds stolen from thousands of Chinese pensioners, is due to be sentenced this week for money…
Paul SeddonPolitical reporter Rachel Reeves: I don’t think it’s right that a child is penalised for being in a bigger family Rachel Reeves has suggested she favours removing limits on benefits linked to family size at next month’s Budget. The chancellor told the BBC it was not right that children in bigger families were “penalised”…
Getty Images The company behind the advert says what looks like “luxury or oddity” is actually “intentional investment in early education” “A family based in north London seeks an extraordinary and experienced tutor to support their youngest child on his first steps to becoming an English gentleman.” When reading this advert, you would be forgiven…
Egon CossouBusiness reporter Trinity Metals You probably don’t give much thought to the device that you’re reading this article on, as long as it looks good and keeps working. But the elements that power and run it are the subject of an escalating struggle between the world’s two biggest economies – the US and China…
Eimear DevlinBBC Money Box reporter Eve Craven Eve Craven had her child benefit halted after she went on a five-day trip to New York with her son The UK’s tax body is reviewing its decisions to strip child benefit from about 23,500 claimants after it used travel data to conclude they had left the country…
Kevin PeacheyCost of living correspondent BBC Annabelle says some customers travel for miles to buy her cookies from her honesty box Honesty boxes: traditionally found on rural lay-bys, offering local produce like eggs and apples in exchange for a small donation. With cash use falling, they might be expected to disappear – a roadside relic…
Theo LeggettInternational business correspondent Getty Images Nearly five months after a plane crash in India which killed 260 people, the investigation has become mired in controversy – with the country’s Supreme Court the latest to weigh in. Flight 171 was en route to London from Ahmedabad in western India on 12 June. It crashed into…
Lucy HookerBusiness reporter Getty Images A great leader is a huge asset for company, of course, but can anyone be worth $1 trillion? That is the pay packet Tesla shareholders have approved for Elon Musk, as long as he meets the targets they have set over the next 10 years. In the meantime he won’t…
