Phil Brown

For Graham Pitts, group managing director of the creative design and print agency KGK Genix, it was the pandemic that prompted him to rethink how he runs his business.His company specialises in designing and creating brand activations,…
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The cost of living crisis is nothing new to me; I’ve suffered at the sharp end of the UK’s punitive welfare system for the best part of a decade.I taught English to international students for 18 years before illness forced me to leave in…
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There’s something particularly relaxing about staying in a nice hotel.Maybe it’s the clean sheets and plush towels or the cool artwork and fancy lobby bar. But whatever it is, I often find myself wishing my apartment gave me the same…
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When Jeroo Doodhmal’s daughter began walking, she took her to get her feet measured and bought her first pair of shoes. But within a matter of months she had grown out of them and needed another pair, and Doodhmal began to feel dismayed at…
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‘It feels like a way to change your fortunes – that’s the British dream,” says the writer and housing rights campaigner Vicky Spratt on right to buy. When she began researching Tenants, her new book about Britain’s dysfunctional private…
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More than £1.3bn was stolen by con artists last year, figures reveal, with authorised push payment fraud (APP), where victims are tricked into making a payment, rising sharply as pandemic restrictions eased.The amount lost to APP fraud hit…
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The chief executive of Ofgem has insisted that bills will not rise for consumers amid plans to plough £20bn into upgrading Great Britain’s regional electricity networks.The energy regulator has set out a £20.9bn package to upgrade the…
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In February, we responded to a promotion by travel firm Holiday Gems for an all-inclusive package to the Bluesea Callao Garden hotel in Tenerife. We paid £850 for a week’s stay in June. On arrival at 9pm, we found the hotel closed. I rang…
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About 7 million struggling families in the UK are living through a “frightening year of financial fear”, going without food, heating, toiletries and even showering as they try to cope with the cost of living crisis, a leading charity has…
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This Cold War-era residence is apocalypse-ready.  A subterranean bunker that once housed massive intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and was built to sustain a nuclear disaster has hit the housing market.…
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