Category: Consumer affairs

Chinese network behind one of world’s ‘largest online scams’

Exclusive: Vast web of fake shops touting designer brands took money and personal details from 800,000 people in Europe and US, data suggestsMore than 800,000 people in Europe and the US appear to have been duped into sharing...

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‘Huge disappointment’ as UK delays bottle deposit plan and excludes glass

Scheme for plastic bottles and cans put back to 2027 while environment minister says glass recycling ‘unduly’ complex A UK deposit return scheme for recycling drinks bottles has been delayed to 2027, meaning it will...

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UK inflation: which goods and services have changed most in price?

From milk to pasta and bicycles to vet bills, how the cost of everyday things variesUK inflation falls to 3.4% in February to lowest level for two and a half yearsThe fight against UK inflation is being won – but when will...

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‘Negative budgets’: cost of living crisis could lose the Tories dozens of seats

Research finds that in 85 Tory-held seats the number of people with negative budgets is higher than the Tory majorityRishi Sunak has been warned that scores of his most vulnerable seats risk being lost over an increasingly...

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UK ministers look to install highly paid boss to spearhead rail reform plan

Salary of new senior post could dwarf DfT pay scales in bid to speed up troubled Great British Railways projectMinisters are bidding to install a highly paid rail industry figure in the Department for Transport to entrench plans...

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