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Last month, police officers broke the news that my son’s girlfriend had taken her own life. The two of them were due to go on a Tui holiday in June. It had been booked with a credit voucher issued after their original trip last summer was cancelled due to Covid. As my son’s girlfriend had …

Retail sales return close to pre-pandemic level in online boom Online sales boomed during lockdown, although the forced closure of high street stores damaged the retail sector overall. The total volume of retail sales has, however, recovered close to pre-pandemic levels, after falling by the most on record during the first wave. With pubs and …

High-cost lender Amigo Loans will press ahead with a rescue plan to cap compensation payments for nearly 1 million customers after the high court rejected concerns the proposed scheme would unfairly harm them. Amigo, which is giving board directors the chance to earn £7m in long-term bonuses as part of the deal, said it welcomed …

Low-paid key workers on the frontline of the Covid-19 pandemic would not be able to afford to buy the average priced home in 98% of Great Britain, an exclusive Guardian analysis has found. Years of rising prices have put homeownership out of reach of many key workers, who have also experienced pay freezes and had …

I am among the 465,000 Post Office home phone and broadband users who have been collectively sold to Shell Energy, and are to become the firm’s customers. As a climate activist, I most definitely do not want to become a customer of Shell Energy, something that I did not, and would never have, agreed to. …