1 May, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
‘Cash is king’: UK shoppers fume over businesses that only accept card payment
It’s easy to tap and pay (Picture: Getty Images) When Covid forced the high street to go digital and turned handling physical money into a health risk, some businesses decided to stop accepting cash altogether. As a result, cash use fell by 35% in 2020 alone, the steepest drop in a years-long downward trajectory. Just […]
Moorcroft Pottery has been an important part of Stoke-on-Trent since it was founded in 1897 (Picture: Universal Images Group via Getty Images) An iconic pottery firm has gone bust after more than 100 years of trading. Moorcroft Pottery, based in Stoke-on-Trent at the heart of the UK’s pottery region, has shut with immediate effect, putting […]
30 Apr, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
Electric meters are changing – here’s how it affects you and what you need to do
The tech is becoming obsolete (Picture: Getty Images) Hundreds of thousands of people could be left with no heating or hot water as their obsolete electricity meters are shut down. Radio Teleswitching Systems (RTS) are being switched off for good on June 30 – but energy companies warn it will be ‘very very difficult’ to […]
The campaign made it to No.10 (Picture: Metro/Belinda Jiao) Having gained over 107,000 signatures, Metro and the family support charity Feed delivered their Formula for Change petition to the Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Wes Streeting today, to demand more is done to make infant formula accessible […]
Calling all Lidl bakery fans! (Picture: Getty Images) If there’s one thing I know to be true about Lidl, it’s that the supermarket’s in-store bakery has a cult following. Seriously, people are obsessed with everything from the retailer’s All Butter Croissant – with 122 of them selling every single minute – to the chocolate twists […]
24 Apr, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
Nationwide shares major update on £100 customer bonus payout date
The mutual insitution shares profits with members rather than shareholders (Picture: In Pictures via Getty Images) If you bank with Nationwide, you could be due a windfall in the next few months — a welcome prospect for those in need of a cash boost. The building society operates as a mutual rather than a traditional bank, […]
22 Apr, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
Mum-of-two took own life ‘after mortgage payments shot up by £500 a month’
Amy Evans and her mother Kathleen Moore, with other family members (Picture: Amy Evans/SWNS) A mum-of-two killed herself after her mortgage payments rose by £500 a month and her application for benefits was turned down, her daughter has said. Kathleen Moore, 60, spent the last four years struggling to make her payments after they shot […]
Cutting costs as a new parent can be tough. (Picture: Getty Images) Ask any parent, and they will tell you that having children is an expensive business. However, it turns out some mums and dads spend vast sums on items their kids don’t need or want. UK parents collectively waste a staggering £7billion on items […]
22 Apr, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
Supermarket own-brand cheddar cheese officially crowned better than Cathedral City and Davidstow
A supermarket own-brand cheddar has beaten big brands in a blind taste test (Picture: Getty Images) In news which might have shocked shoppers, Which? recently revealed that a supermarket own-brand butter fared better than Lurpak in a blind taste test. A panel of 67 people picked Aldi’s Norpak as the overall winner, rating it highly […]
21 Apr, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
I visited the Amazon returns warehouse where everything is discounted
I’d definitely go back to Trade Outlet (Picture: Rosie O’Hagan) From cut-price books to air fryers, Amazon receives a staggering 13million orders every single day. Of course, not every purchase is a successful one — so what happens to those ill-fitting clothes, gadgets you don’t actually need, and far-too-big furniture when you send it all back? […]