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Nationwide BS to scrap cashback scheme in April - which alternative banks offer the perk? 

Nationwide is scrapping a scheme allowing credit and debit cardholders to earn cashback on their spending after the building society admitted it wasn't worth the time and resources.




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Will Apple and Amazon launch rival credit cards in Britain?

At the launch event in Cupertino, California, the iPhone maker debuted a white titanium card with no number, security code, expiry date or name, only the Apple logo. Could it launch in Britain too?




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The disappearing 0% deals: Borrowers urged to act quickly to reduce the cost of credit card debt

Two years ago, top balance transfer credit cards offered customers 43 months to clear their debt without paying interest. The longest deal today lasts just 29 months.




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Britain’s contactless capital revealed: London doesn't top the list

It is Bristol where the highest proportion of card payments are swiped, with 73 per cent of 11.5million card transactions in the West Country city using contactless.




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MasterCard's Mark Barnett on working with Monzo, paying by app, and why there should always be cash

If the future of the UK increasingly looks cashless, then no one may be better placed to reap the rewards than MasterCard




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Credit card interest rates reach a 13-year high of 24.7% APR

Data from Moneyfacts found that in September the average credit card purchase APR rose to 24.7 per cent, an all-time high since its records began in June 2006.




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Glint app that lets customers pay with gold goes into administration

For five days after it went into administration the company did not mention the matter on its website. Glint says its app still works as normal and users could still deposit money into it.




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Millions of credit card users are on course for rate trap as they fail to move provider

New research reveals that nearly half of all UK credit card holders -around 17million people nationwide - have never switched their card.




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Gold payment app Glint out of administration after £5.7m fundraise

An app-based card provider which allowed users to pay with gold has been rescued from administration, having fought off a hostile takeover bid from one of its own creditors.




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Tandem Bank scraps 0.5% cashback card and will replace it with a premium option

Smartphone bank Tandem is axing its cashback credit card for new customers, and from January those who want to use its successor will have to pay a membership fee.




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Catapillr offers work interest-free loans up to £10k to pay for childcare

With nursery costs reaching as much as £12,000 parents are finding it difficult cope. But now a new provider enables employers to give interest-free loans to parents for childcare




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Hundreds of Saga customers receive surprise payout after platinum credit card mishap

Hundreds of customers of Saga have received an unexpected windfall following its admission that it badly handled the axeing of its popular platinum credit card last year.




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Top interest-free credit card deals begin to disappear as providers cut deals

Barclaycard, Sainsbury's Bank and Tesco Bank have cut interest-free deals over the last month, some of which are the best around, as lenders evaluate their offers amid the coronavirus outbreak.




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Credit card approvals will fall and interest-free terms will shrink

The Bank of England's latest credit conditions survey revealed lenders believe the availability of household unsecured credit will decrease between April and June amid coronavirus.




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Who is behind this Snapchat advert offering to write off debt?

Next to a picture on social media app Snapchat of Ryan Reynolds teasing news about upcoming superhero film Deadpool 3, is a 'sponsored' post with its own teaser: that you can write off debt.




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RACHEL RICKARD STRAUS:Energy cap kill directory enquiries?

Guess what has experienced inflation ten times higher than house prices, gold, petrol or even a pint of beer in central London? Directory enquiries.




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Why you shouldn't have to opt out of spam on applications

Filling out a simple application form can feel like running a gauntlet of spam. One wrong move and you could be pelted with ‘special offers’, junk mail and interrupting text messages for eternity.




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A Vanguard LifeStrategy fund can make pension investing cheap and easy

I don't have a Vanguard account, but if someone said they wanted an easy and cheap way to build their wealth, opening one and picking a Lifestrategy fund would be near the top of my list of things to try.




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Celebrate the great country we share with a cheap 'microadventure'

A microadventure doesn't involve an expensive expedition, but just getting out of the rut of the daily grind and exploring the world around us on a shoestring. It's the perfect antidote to gloomy politics.




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What do you want to happen to house prices? 

Arguably, the best thing that could happen over the next decade would be for homes to get less expensive, preferably through house prices stagnating and wages rising.




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House prices over 174 years - and the 70 year period they got cheaper

House prices have only ever been as expensive as they are now compared to wages twice in the past 120 years, but surprisingly before that they were considerably more costly, a deep dive shows.




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What happens to house prices after you stop the property market?

Amid the coronavirus lockdown, that quintessentially British question is inevitably being asked: what will happen to house prices?




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Is the FTSE seeing V-shaped recovery or dead cat bounce?

On 23 March, things were looking about as gloomy as they could get for investors, but shares have rebounded strongly since. What next?




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N-Dubz rapper Dappy's former partner gets engaged to US triple-murderer she has never met

Kaye Vassell, the mother to two of the singer's children, has moved to Missouri to be closer to new beau Deandra Buchanan, who is currently serving a life sentence.




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Twitter goes wild for Unorthodox star Amit Rahav as Yanky Shapiro

Twitter has gone wild for rising star Amit Rahav after he shot to fame playing Yanky Shapiro in Netflix series Unorthodox. 




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Ben Affleck's girlfriend Ana de Armas shares dirty blonde on-set snap of herself in Netflix's Sergio

Her new movie Sergio starts streaming this Friday on Netflix .




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Tiger King's Dillon Passage reveals he's been inundated with X-RATED snaps since show's release

In an interview with FUBAR Radio's Access All Areas, he said: 'I've definitely received quite a few nudes from people and it's just like, "keep that to yourself". I already know what a wiener looks like!'




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Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini try to cover up a murder in Dead to Me season 2 trailer

Stars Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini are returning to the small screen in their hit roles as Jen and Judy. The trailer for season two, released Friday, catches up with the unlikely friend.




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Cardi B gets in on the Tiger King trend as she captions a selfie with: 'Hello cool cats and kittens'

She's been one of the primary stars of social media since this pandemic started, with her panicky testimonials about coronavirus or her recent unfortunate encounter with some bikini wax.




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Linda Cardellini and Christina Applegate reveal making Dead To Me season 2 was emotionally draining

'Some days it is hard,' Cardellini, 44, said during an interview with SiriusXM's Jess Cagle. 'There are emotional places that we go to over and over again that are draining.'




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Christina Applegate reveals daughter Sadie's school library is her 'happy place'

The actress, 48, said she's a big hit with students when it comes to story time. 'I read a book and they like it because I do a bunch of accents and they think that's funny,' she said.




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Blake Lively to headline post-apocalyptic Netflix movie Dark Days at the Magna Carta

The Gossip Girl actress, 32, is collaborating on the project with filmmaker Shawn Levy, who recently worked with her husband Ryan Reynolds on an upcoming comedy called Free Guy.




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Kicking over tactics boards, grappling with players... and ABBA pre-match - Roy Keane the manager

KIERAN GILL: If only those Netflix cameras were stationed at Sunderland in 2007-08. Oh to be a fly on the wall for Roy Keane's first season as a manager in the Premier League.




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Shashi Kapoor's death leaves fans heartbroken

The actor and filmmaker passed away at a Mumbai hospital on Monday, aged 79, following a long illness. He will be remembered for a 'understated and charming' personality that cut across genres.




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Teenager fights for life after being raped and set alight

The heinous crime took place just three days after Madhya Pradesh became the first state to allow the death penalty for rapists. The two accused are alleged to have attacked the victim at her home.




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Delhi firemen struggling with capital's burning landfills

The Capital generates 10,000 metric tonnes of trash a day. Pollution is a major problem across all life and sites in Bhalswa, Ghazipur and Okhla have created a unique challenge to the city's fire service.




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Girl, 6, raped & tortured to death with 24cm wooden stick

A post-mortem report also found bruises on the girl's shoulders and waist, injuries on nose and throat and intestinal bleeding.




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Rahul Gandhi is appointed Congress leader

The announcement was made by the party central election authority (CEA) head Mullappally Ramachandran on Monday afternoon against a backdrop of fireworks and cheering outside.




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Modi fires up poll spirit with seaplane ride in Gujarat

On the last day of campaigning for the high-voltage Gujarat assembly elections, PM Narendra Modi raised the pitch by taking a seaplane in the state - leaving him under fire from some.




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Outraged mother of raped daughter demands faster justice

The need for speedy redress comes as Delhi waits for those convicted of the brutal December 16, 2012, gang-rape of a medical student on a bus to be hanged till death.




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Ex-Australia captain Kim Hughes slams 'pathetic' England

Former Australia captain Kim Hughes has blasted England's approach to dismissing Steve Smith in the third Ashes Test at the WACA, saying 'all the backroom staff should be sacked.'




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Belgium appoints first female ambassador to Saudi Arabia

Diplomat Dominique Mineur will move to Riyhad to head up the embassy from next year in a 'clear signal' to Saudi officials despite the Gulf kingdom's shocking women's rights record.




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Brit whose dad was kidnapped by North Korea wants release

Cecilia O’Hare, 48, from Coventry, was just three months old when her father Hwang Won boarded a flight from north-east South Korea to the capital Seoul on December 11, 1969.




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Assembly polls 2016: Regional satraps surge ahead, BJP's gains proportional to Congress' losses

To read the results as a saffron surge or decimation of the Congress is to miss the big picture




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Chelsea starlet Ethan Amapdu admits there's 'been lots of frustration' during loan at RB Leipzig

Chelsea midfielder Ethan Ampadu says he has been left frustrated by his season on loan at RB Leipzig, a spell in which he has made just seven appearances.




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Has Ziyech played last game for Ajax? And what will happen to Onana? Holland stars' uncertain future

Some, like Ajax star Hakim Ziyech, have their future sown up but aren't sure whether they've played their last game in Holland, while others have been linked with moves but are yet to put pen to paper.




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Chelsea plot free transfer move for Napoli star Dries Mertens with forward yet to agree new deal

Belgian striker Dries Mertens is a summer transfer target for Chelsea with the attacker out of contract with Napoli this summer, according to Sky Sports Italia.




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Hakim Ziyech reveals rapport with Frank Lampard convinced Ajax star to seal £37m move to Chelsea 

Hakim Ziyech has revealed his 'connection' with Chelsea manager Frank Lampard convinced him to leave Ajax to sign for the Premier League club.




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Barcelona 'make record signings Philippe Coutinho and Ousmane Dembele available for swap deals'

Barcelona are also interested in Juventus midfielder Miralem Pjanic and would be willing to part ways with Brazilian midfielder Arthur Melo in an exchange deal.




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West Ham to 'resist any approach' for midfielder Declan Rice from Chelsea

The midfielder, who was released by the Blues at the age of 14, has hinted at the possibility of a return after stating his interest in playing alongside long-time friend Mason Mount at club level once again.