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Happy Labor Day weekend everyone. Perhaps some of you are in the market for a new car this weekend. I’m definitely not. After almost a year of deliberating between replacing my 2015 Range Rover Sport or continuing to fix it, I’ve finally decided to keep fixing it indefinitely. The main reason is that we may relocate to Honolulu in 2028 for my son’s 6th grade year and my daughter’s 3rd grade year. If we’re in Honolulu, I could take care of my parents, which would be an honor. Buying a new car and then selling it in under two years…

Available for over a yearA new survey has suggested nearly a third of people in the UK believe they lost money last year because of their poor maths skills. One estimate puts the cost of innumeracy at £25 billion per year. To try and tackle this the government has asked a House of Lords committee to investigate. We’ll hear from its chair, Lord Agnew. The price of petrol is the highest it has been for almost four years. It was autumn 2022 when petrol last topped 160p a litre. We’ll look at why that is and what you can do…

Jaguar Land Rover’s decision to shed 4,000 jobs comes after the carmaker has travelled down a very rough road.The company has seen sales fall in all of its major markets and it has been dealing with the consequences of a devastating cyber-attack that paralysed production last year. At the same time, it has been investing billions in an effort to reinvent itself for an electric future, in which it is likely to face intense competition from aggressively expanding Chinese brands. Executives have now decided a major overhaul is needed.One of the main concerns for JLR is China. Not so long…

Available for 27 daysWe’re talking benefits. Turned down for Personal Independence Payment? Thousands of people are challenging benefit decisions at independent tribunals, and the majority are winning. We hear why so many initial PIP assessments are being overturned and what it could mean for you. Talking openly about debt. We meet the influencer behind ‘Figuring out finances at 40’ who’s breaking the taboo around financial struggles. From revealing exactly how much debt she’s in to documenting the mistakes she’s made and the practical steps she’s taking to get back on track. Could your holiday booking be too good to be…

When the central bank of the Netherlands confirmed this week that it had moved tonnes of the country’s gold out of North America, it said the relocation would make it “better prepared for severe crises”.Some 86 tonnes from the combined total of about 313 tonnes held in the US and Canada were relocated to London “in view of increasing geopolitical unrest”, it said, so the shiny stuff could be “readily available for use in a crisis situation”.Questions were bound to follow. Why were the Dutch doing this? Were they anticipating some major economic shock on the horizon?It seems not, but…

In recent months, Welsh figures, external suggested the proportion of young people in Wales who are not in education, employment, or training (Neet) had risen sharply.They increased to 17% and returned to levels last seen around 2013, according to Welsh government figures.Cian Halliday, 26, a carpenter from Llanrug, had been made redundant during the Covid-19 pandemic, something he said had been “difficult, and a struggle”.”Academi Adra were offering courses, and almost 16 weeks of work experience and at the end they decided to keep me on as a labourer. I did that for a year,” he said.”Then they offered me…

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is to cut 4,000 jobs as the carmaker struggles with Chinese competition, US tariffs, and the transition to electric vehicles.The cuts will happen over the next two years and will mostly affect the head office, which is based in the UK.JLR’s long-term issues were made worse after a cyber-attack last year caused the firm, which employs 43,000 people globally, to shut down production for more than a month.Chief executive PB Balaji said the firm was “committed to supporting everyone with care, fairness and respect” through the redundancy process.JLR is hoping to achieve the cuts through voluntary…

The programme, now in its fourth year, is supported by Coventry Building Society.”While we can never guarantee every item, in every size, for every school, we are proud to say that no family who attended our events left empty-handed,” Wilson said.One parent who used the service said getting uniforms for their children had been a major concern.”As a family with eight children and a very limited income, getting school uniforms for all our children was a big worry for us,” they said.”The support we received made a huge difference and took away a lot of financial stress.”It helped us make…

Australians would be able to switch off social media algorithms under draft legislation to be proposed this week.Communications Minister Anika Wells, who last year helmed the government’s world-first social media ban for under-16s, said the digital duty of care laws would ensure “some basic safety protections on an industry that hasn’t had to observe it”.If tech firms such as Meta, Google and TikTok did not give the option to turn off algorithms, they should face “substantial” penalties, she said.Some members of the opposition have criticised the proposal, with Liberal Party leader Angus Taylor saying he was “highly sceptical” and arguing…

Food prices remain a concern and there are fears they could rise following this summer’s extreme weather, which resulted in poor crop yield, and as further climate changes are predicted.The government has previously said it recognises the level of household food insecurity in the UK is “unacceptable”, external and that it is taking action to drive down prices of essentials, improve access to healthy food and expand free school meals.Hannah Worsley, project manager for Norwich Food Bank, said people who had already made changes to their lifestyle since the cost-of-living crisis began were still struggling to make ends meet.She said:…