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Can I get 10,000 Amex points without paying the £140 membership fee?

I have triggered a 10,000 point bonus for spending £15,000 on the card - but it says I can't get them until August 2020 and only if I renew. However, I don't want to pay the £140 annual fee for renewing.




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Banking with Lloyds for 40 years helped it uncover my £12k PPI payout

In an unusual case, four decades of sticking with Lloyds Bank was the main reason behind a Hertfordshire man obtaining a £12,000 mis-sold PPI payout.




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UCAS says it'll stop advertising private loans after Future Finance criticism

UCAS will stop sending out emails advertising private student loan provider Future Finance, the student charity announced today, following a backlash over the promotions




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Why did a 'fee-free' Klarna purchase of a vacuum cleaner land me with a £2.65 charge?

A shopper who used buy now, pay later service Klarna to pay for a £199 vacuum cleaner in three 'interest-free' instalments was left confused after he was charged an extra 4.5%.




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HSBC and Tesco Bank don't offer credit card soft searching

People applying for credit cards with two major UK lenders have to roll the dice to check if they will be accepted, putting their credit score at risk in the process.




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Three quarters believe in a credit blacklist...it's a MYTH!

Many of us know that having a good credit score is key to getting accepted for the cheapest cards, loans and mortgages but many still believe in common credit score myths.




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Contactless limit raised to £45 to help cut down on cash usage

Payment providers across the UK have upped their contactless payment limits from £30 to £45 in an effort to help customers cut down on cash usage. 




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What will today's new FCA debt measures mean for you?

The FCA today brought in measures which offer consumers struggling with their finances bigger fee-free overdrafts and the ability to freeze credit and loan repayments for three months.




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Balance transfer mix-up left my £3,500 bill on both credit cards

Neil Seagrave, 35, from Dorset, tried to transfer his credit card balance to HSBC at the start of March before his zero-interest term with Sainsbury's Bank expired, but this was not resolved until April.




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Britain's £69bn credit card debt pile falls year-on-year for the first time ever

Households paid back a whopping £3.8bn more than they borrowed in March, the biggest figure on record, as households shunned their credit cards in the face of the coronavirus crisis.




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Virgin Money customers' credit cards suspended during lockdown

Customers of Virgin Money rounded on the bank after it suspended their credit cards, despite many of them not struggling with their repayments and clearing their balance in full.




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RACHEL RICKARD STRAUS: I'm glad the tax freeze pledge goes

A government needs to be able to be nimble, to cut spending where necessary and to raise money should it require.




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RACHEL RICKARD STRAUS: Here's how we can simplify tax

Party manifestos are not exactly known for their jokes. But as I trawled through them all over the past few days there were two lines that at least made me snigger.




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Why you shouldn't have to opt out of spam on applications

Filling out a simple application form can feel like running a gauntlet of spam. One wrong move and you could be pelted with ‘special offers’, junk mail and interrupting text messages for eternity.




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New Year's resolution to save money? Here's how to do it

What about saving a few hundred - or even thousand - pounds right at the beginning of the year? You’ll improve your bank balance and turboboost your resolution.




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I'm fighting the sale that never ends, says Rachel Rickard Straus

I've been monitoring an online sale for over a year now and it never reverts back to its standard price. I've been taking screen grabs and now it's time to fight back.




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RACHEL RICKARD STRAUS: It's time to maximise our impact as investors

As consumers we endlessly battle to reduce our impact: take the train instead of driving, decline plastic straws, eat free range. As investors we can maximise our impact, using our cash to do good.




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Celebrate the great country we share with a cheap 'microadventure'

A microadventure doesn't involve an expensive expedition, but just getting out of the rut of the daily grind and exploring the world around us on a shoestring. It's the perfect antidote to gloomy politics.




3

The pound's short-lived Boris bounce shows cautious optimism is wiser

For all the confidence-boosting talk of a Boris bounce for the economy, shares, and the property market, it is the pound that tells the real story.




3

Halifax hiked my home insurance by 29% but couldn't tell me why

Halifax's renewals team are not blessed with the ability to explain why you are being asked for an extra £59, so I made a complaint and this is what happened next.




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Will Rishi Sunak be brave enough to get rid of the UK's 60p tax rate?

The top rate of income tax is officially 45p, yet the removal of the personal allowance means the real top rate is effectively 60p - and those who pay it are not Britain's top earners.




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The property market where people can't leave the house?

Estate agents, mortgage brokers and banks have a headache right now, while buyers, sellers and those due to move home don't know what on earth will happen.




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Airlines don't want to give coronavirus refunds, what can we do?

What is galling for me and many of my fellow Britons due to fly, is quite how awkward airlines are being in allowing us to get our money back.




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I'd back an investment trust over fixing a cash Isa for 7 years at 1.65%

Whenever I see such rates I feel compelled to ask: 'Why if you have money that you don't need for seven years would you not invest it for a better return?'




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Joe Exotic's ex is UNRECOGNISABLE in bonus Tiger King episode

The former spouse of the show's incarcerated antagonist showcased an incredible makeover, as he displayed his new dentures




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Tiger King fans claim 'Jeff Lowe is actually Carole Baskin's abusive first husband Michael Murdock'

Fans of Tiger King: Murder Mayhem And Madness have come up with a shock theory that suggests Jeff Lowe is actually Carole Baskin's abusive first husband Michael Murdock.




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White House Correspondents' Association moves annual dinner to August

The White House Correspondents' Dinner will go on, with organizers swapping a late April date for one in August, the White House Correspondents' Association announced.




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Florida sheriff says more than one person killed Carole Baskin's missing second husband Don Lewis

Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister says he believes more than one person killed Carole Baskin's second husband Don Lewis and money was likely involved as motivation.




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Tiger King: Meet Australia's big cat keepers risking their lives to look after endangered animals

Netflix's Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem And Madness has gone viral in Australia.




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N-Dubz rapper Dappy's former partner gets engaged to US triple-murderer she has never met

Kaye Vassell, the mother to two of the singer's children, has moved to Missouri to be closer to new beau Deandra Buchanan, who is currently serving a life sentence.




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Alison Brie says working out consistently helped with her relationship to her body 'times a million'

She stars as Ruth Wilder in the Netflix hit comedy/drama series Glow. And Alison Brie opened up about how training for her character and the physical element of the role 'helped.'




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Robes and slippers for every occasion in quarantine that don't sacrifice style for comfort

From working from home to lounging on the couch and binge-watching another Netflix show, the right robe and slippers can make life in quarantine a lot better.




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Joe Exotic's husband Dillon says his partner was 'excited' by Donald Trump's support

Joe Exotic's latest husband Dillon Passage has revealed that his partner felt 'excited' after President Trump said he will 'look' at pardoning his prison sentence.




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Queer Eye star Antoni Porowski's sexually 'fluid' dating life has inspired new Netflix rom-com

Porowski has developed the story, called Girls And Boys, alongside Black-ish creator Kenya Barris, according to The Hollywood Reporter.




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Kristin Chenoweth channels Tiger King's Carole Baskin in music video for parody song Little Pieces

Written by composer and lyricist Andrew Lippa, the song tells the story from the perspective of Baskin, who may or may not have fed her husband Don to a tiger.




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Chris Hemsworth is distracted by his cheeky son after he interrupts his dad's radio interview

Even Chris Hemsworth is having a tough time being locked up at home with his kids. The 36-year-old actor found himself repeatedly being interrupted by one of his young sons during a virtual radio interview.




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Ben Affleck's girlfriend Ana de Armas shares dirty blonde on-set snap of herself in Netflix's Sergio

Her new movie Sergio starts streaming this Friday on Netflix .




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Former Mrs. Florida dishes on her 30-day stint in prison

Former Mrs. Florida Karyn Turk sat down for an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com after being released from prison in Miami after 30 days.




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The average US home consuming 38 TIMES more data than it did in 2010 according to new study

Internet usage has skyrocketed in America over the last decade, with the average home consuming more than 38 times the amount of data that it used in 2010, going from 9GB to 344GB.




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Mark Wahlberg's wife Rhea Durham and ten-year-old daughter Grace share hilarious Tiger King parody

Mark Wahlberg's model wife Rhea Durham and ten-year-old daughter Grace jumped on the Tiger King Carole Baskin TikTok craze, inspired by the hit Netflix docu-series on Thursday.




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Netflix's Too Hot To Handle Aussie star Harry Jowsey previously on ANOTHER reality TV show

Netflix recently dropped a trailer for their newest dating reality series, Too Hot to Handle - launching Friday, April 17 at 5pm.




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Ricky Gervais 'boosts his companies' earnings by £2 million after huge Netflix deal for After Life'

The comedian, 58, gave himself a '£1.5 million cash windfall' after he secured a huge deal for a second series of the dark comedy, which is set for release on April 24.




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From Ricky Gervais' After Life to Defending Jacob and Liar: The best on demand TV this week

On hearing that his dark and, at times, almost unbearably moving comedy had been recommissioned, Ricky Gervais said, 'I have never had a reaction like this before. It's been insane.'




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Ryan Murphy's Hollywood trailer: Laura Harrier kisses Darren Criss in postwar Tinseltown

The 54-year-old screenwriter unveiled the trailer for his seven-episode limited series, titled Hollywood, on Monday.




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Google searches reveal American's concerns have shifted amid the coronavirus pandemic

Google searches from April 2019 reveal Americans were interested in solving a Rubik's cube, but now people are searching for toilet paper and other necessities during the coronavirus.




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Oil futures plunge to historic low of -$37 a barrel

US crude oil futures turned negative on Monday for the first time in history, ending the day at a stunning minus $37.63 a barrel as traders sold heavily because of rapidly filling storage space.




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Tiger King's Doc Antle sleeps with an AK-47 gun after receiving '50 death threats a day'

Tiger King's Doc Antle revealed on Monday that he sleeps with an AK-47 gun following various death threats. Doc Antle rose to fame on the recent Netflix show, Tiger King.




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AOC deletes tweet saying 'you absolutely love to see it' while celebrating the price of oil crashing

The Democrat, main, quickly removed the post, inset, on Monday but still used the economic collapse to plug her Green New Deal.




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Ricky Gervais says After Life's success means fans talk to him about grief

The writer and comedian, 58, is promoting the second series of his Netflix show After Life, which shows his character going through the grieving process.




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Netflix's Too Hot To Handle cast who already had their five minutes of fame revealed

The new Netflix smash-hit Too Hot to Handle, which features a number of faces who have already had their brush with some level of fame.