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eBay’s Little Red Riding Hood costumes are no fairy tale

Can you please help solve a most bizarre problem I’m having with eBay? Every few weeks a package arrives at my house containing a Little Red Riding Hood costume and other capes. The packages are addressed to me and appear to be from people who bought them on eBay but have decided to return them …

How retirement villages are becoming part of high street life in the UK

The ideas to reboot Britain’s pandemic-stricken high streets are coming in. After a record number of shop closures last year during the worst recession in history, stores are being replaced with student flats, gyms and crazy golf courses. But in one corner of south London, there is a different approach: retirement homes. A retirement village …

22 Bishopsgate: a perfumed 62-storey village for City workers

22 Bishopsgate is big, as large as a container ship perched on its end. At an all-inclusive total of just over 195,000 sq metres, it’s probably the largest office building ever built in Britain. At 278 metres high – or 62 storeys – it comes second only to the 310-metre Shard as the tallest building …

Mortgage competition hots up and rates fall to under 1%. For some

It appears to be a golden time for borrowers – or some of them, at least. Homebuyers are being offered mortgages with interest rates below 1% for the first time in almost four years. Now experts say they could fall even further, as competition among banks and building societies heats up. The best-buy rate for …

Got an electric car charger at home? Share it and earn cash

Electric car owners with a charger installed at their home can sign up to a community app that allows them to share it with neighbours, while making them a little extra cash at the same time. Designed to get local communities sharing the 300,000 privately owned electric chargers across the country, the Co Charger app …