Cost of living

Abby McNicol was one of the four lucky winners who won the SPAR Frozen Fortune £10k prize

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Gareth used a company’s online quote service to see if he could save some money

How I saved £140 a month on bills during ‘Awful April’

Fife Council is running Cafe Inc during the Easter holidays.

Café Inc will feed Fife's young people during Easter holidays

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UK's largest supermarket to give away free food items to cut waste

Bundle energy, broadband and insurance with UW

Ultimate consumer hack: how bundling household bills can save money

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Inflation hits 10-month high driven by travel and food cost increases

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'I'm tired of it' - Brits fed up with being 'ripped off' as bills rise

How much is it costing unsigned UK musicians to 'make it' in 2025?

How much money it really takes to make it in UK music

Almost half use loyalty programmes as a way of saving around the festive period

Four in 10 adults are worried about the cost of Christmas this year

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The 'Coupon King' shares his tips and simple hacks to save big in 2025

Household Support Fund returns with up to £500 available for families

Chamberlain with representatives from various agencies at the event.

Chamberlain holds Cost of Living event

'Lifestyle inflation' is to blame, according to 4,000 adults

Fewer than one in 10 millennials have hit their financial goals

Annabel Fenwick Elliott and son Jasper in Mauritius.

Watch: Woman leaves UK so she can afford to be a stay-at-home mum

Cafe Inc returns for the school holidays (Pic: Fife Council)

Cafe Inc offers free meals for youngsters during Fife school holidays in October

Review of Netflix and if its worth it in 2024. Photo: MARTIN BUREAU/AFP via Getty Images/ National World

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Thousands set to receive £250 payment - but deadline is just days away

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Thousands of UK households to receive up to £600 in government support

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The Royal Mint is 'scrapping' these widely used coins as demand drops

Every Sunday, The Real Greek will be offering free kids meals, for every £10 spent by an accompanying adult. The offer is available to children under 12 and will include a kids meal, a drink and an ice cream or sorbet.

8 places where you can grab free meals for children over summer

The UK's most affordable university cities for students aren't always the first place you'd think of to study (Photo: National World/Getty/Adobe Stock)

The 11 cheapest UK cities for university students named

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UK city leaps into top 10 most expensive cities for expats

Numerous products are being kept in security boxes at supermarkets - including £2 chocolate bars (Photo: James Linsell Clark/SWNS)

Major supermarket locks down £2 item in anti-theft boxes

Motorists forked out millions for unexpected repairs in the last year

Millions of households entitled to final cost of living payment

Millions of households entitled to final cost of living payment

Rightmove have released their forecast for 2024.

Rightmove forecast for property buying in the UK next year

Aspiring UK homeowners aren't feeling so optimistic
First-time buyers are losing confidence that they will meet their homeownership goals, after a difficult 12 months navigating rising costs and mortgage market uncertainty, research has revealed.
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The dates benefits recipients can expect their payments over Christmas and New Year in 2023

The dates benefits recipients can expect their payments over Christmas

Grocery inflation has fallen again, helping lower costs for shoppers

Grocery inflation drops again with butter now 16p cheaper

Sharon White poses with her award after she was made a Dame CBE, for public service, next to her husband Sir Robert Chote (Photo by Andrew Matthews - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

John Lewis boss Dame Sharon White to step down

Young couples struggle to sort out housing before marriage and kids

Millions of people are receiving payments to help with high bills amid the cost of living crisis - what further support is coming in 2023?

Cost of living payment: What other support is coming in 2023?

An Iceland store is pictured. The supermarket has slashed the price of1,000 of its weekly staples to help families through the cost of living crisis.

Iceland slashes price of over 1,000 weekly essential items - see list

Millions of people in receipt of the State Pension will receive an additional payment over the coming months.

DWP to send out ‘bonus’ payments to millions before Christmas

People walk near the Jobcentre in Westminster.

DWP warning over Universal Credit changes coming in October

Doreen Thompson adjusts her thermostat at her home as she limits her use of heating to keep up with her increasing energy bills, at her home in south London.

Ofgem chief’s warning energy bills could be ‘even higher’ this winter

The UK economy shrank by 0.5% in July, prompting more recession fears.

Recession fears as UK economy shrinks by ‘more than expected’ in July

Martin Lewis has urged people to stock up on this important household item before it soars in price next month.

Martin Lewis’s MSE urges people to stock up on item before price hike

Library image of Martin Lewis from Money Saving Expert speaking to an audience of Londoners about the challenges they are facing as a result of the rising cost of living, hosted by London Mayor, Sadiq Khan at City Hall in London. (Photo by Stefan Rousseau/PA)

Martin Lewis predicts when £300 cost of living payment will land

Here are 15 foods you can eat past their expiration date, saving money and reducing food waste.

15 foods you can eat way past their expiration date

The next cost of living payments will be paid in autumn 2023 and spring 2024.

Cost of living payment 2023: When will the next instalment be paid?

Tesco to make major change to Express stores to help customers save money

Tesco to make major change to stores to help customers save

Here are eight important money changes coming in August 2023.

8 money changes coming in August 2023 including Ofgem price cap

Jordan and Fae Vye outside their farmhouse in Bulgaria.

Family unable to afford UK mortgage moved to Bulgaria and saved £293k

A food guru has shared 10 tips that could cut your shopping bills in half including always looking at the lowest placed items on a shelf, avoiding the bigger trolleys and investing more in the frozen food aisle.

Expert’s money saving tips that could slash your shopping bill in half

Morrisons trolleys. (Pic credit: Rob Stothard / Getty Images)

Morrisons cuts prices of over 150 products including bread and beer

Alcohol is set to become more expensive in the UK next month over a taxes shake-up, with industry chiefs warning it will “heap misery” on consumers and further fuel inflation - see full list of price rises.

Alcohol prices to rise over tax change - full list including wine

M&S make major change to loyalty scheme as it eyes up Tesco Clubcard

M&S make major change to loyalty scheme as it eyes up Tesco Clubcard

Stock drinking picture, photo from Johnny Green PA Images

Price of a pint rockets by 50 pence in just one year

Eating out is expensive at the best of times but “massive price hikes” on every day items mean families are now even struggling to serve up homemade meals.

Family mealtimes now ‘nightmare’ as cost of staples surge

Depop entrepreneur Callum Massey poses in a bath full of deadstock nike beanies from 2002 that he purchased and resold on the site.

Student sold unwanted clothes on Depop for extra cash - and made £250k

People will have more time to boost their pensions by tens of thousands of pounds after a two-year extension to a major deadline was approved - how to find out if you’ll receieve full pay on retirement.

Deadline to boost pensions by potentially £10,000s extended to 2025

Interactive chart shows which supermarkets have biggest price rises

Sainsbury’s makes another huge change to Nectar Prices

Sainsbury’s makes another huge change to help customes save money