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Michelle Kajikawa of Portland and her husband currently owe more than $150,000 in student loans from his law degree and her social work and teaching degrees, obtained between 1995 and 2003. She is an elementary school teacher, and her husband works as a public defender, while caring for two children. “The yoke of student debt …

Once, high streets offered a choice of three or four banks. Now, 50 branches are closing every month, making what was a reliable cornerstone of every town, a rarer and rarer fixture. Earlier this year the financial regulator called on banks to reconsider closures, amid fears that vulnerable people could be left without access to …

Fathers should be offered “use it or lose it” paternity leave lasting at least three months to help challenge the UK’s entrenched gender roles and the prioritisation of work over family for men, according to shadow business secretary, Ed Miliband. The former Labour leader is advocating for a “reordering” of responsibilities that gives men the …

Perched on a hill above the fishing harbour of St Mawes, the estate agent H Tiddy has sold houses in this picture postcard corner of Cornwall for more than a century – but business has never been as frantic as it is now. “Since last March it’s just been so busy,” said Tom Sparkes, a …

Less than two weeks after international holidays resumed, there are signs the government’s post-trip Covid testing regime is descending into chaos, with passengers paying hundreds of pounds for tests that aren’t being processed, or fail to arrive. Passengers landing at UK airports over the past 10 days have described having to call the NHS 119 …