Bin crews to work four-day week as UK trials extend to public sector frontline

South Cambridgeshire council will test 32-hour week on principle that staff will work ‘more intensely and productively’

Supermarket bosses face grilling on fuel prices from watchdog

CMA says it has found evidence retailers are putting up petrol and diesel prices to unnecessarily high levels

Tenants in Great Britain typically paying 25% on top of what they were paying at start of pandemic, according to Hamptons

Customers seek energy-saving tech, repair services and consumer finance deals to stretch budgets, says CEO

The Financial Conduct Authority will soon launch the ‘consumer duty’, a tough new regime supposed to ensure firms put people’s needs first

One reader says SSE takes 70% off every time they top up their meter, while another gets erroneous Ovo payment letters

Company apologies for language used in dealing with daughter and wife negotiating for their relative with memory loss

Warning comes as UK watchdog set to tighten rules for asset managers given short-term targets

Impact of Bank of England’s decision to hike rates to 4.5% will be felt mostly by young families, thinktank says

Families who have remortgaged or are about to do so tell of a precarious position after rate raised to 4.5%

Bank of England aware that impact of most rates rises has yet to be felt, meaning a pause is now probable

The quarter-point rise to 4.5% hits mortgage holders, credit card users and people seeking loans, but savers could benefit

Rising numbers of adult children are living with their parents compared with a decade ago

Poll of City analysts shows unanimous expectation of Bank of England raising interest rates to 4.5%

Leading thinktank sounds alarm over cost of living crisis with poorest £4,000 worse off in 2023 than before Covid pandemic