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Cadbury fans have been left appalled by the 'shambolic' and 'disgusting' prices of Mini Eggs this year - said to cost more than chicken or a weekly food shop. Mondelēz, who own Cadbury, has defended the price hike

Not investing, not buying a house sooner, and not making and sticking to a budget, are other things they wish they had done differently

The company's earnings were boosted by the price cap mechanism in the first half of the year

Swansea has been crowned the top place to buy a home if you're a first-time buyer, with the average cost coming in at £195,687 - so which other places top the list?

The equalities watchdog has issued guidance to employers to clarify their legal obligations to women going through the menopause

A mum has been dubbed a 'genius' after sharing a hack that ensures you won't damage the car next to you if you're parked in a tight spot next to another vehicle

Lawrence Cannon, 67, only noticed the erroneous payments made to British Gas in November last year and contacted The Mirror after struggling to get a refund from the UK's biggest energy firm

Ofgem has given the energy companies permission to return to forcibly fitting prepayment meters after they were temporarily banned following a scandal around the practice

Lloyds has become the first UK bank to set aside hundreds of millions of pounds in case it has to compensate car finance customers, amid a major investigation into whether people overpaid on their loans

The uprating follows similar moves by other lenders this week, including Santander, Coventry, and TSB.

Lloyds Banking Group was the last to report its annual results as it today revealed it made a record £7.5billion last year - a more than 50% leap on 2022

The aerospace engineering specialist says that the swing to profit was boosted by cost savings and better-than-expected revenues

The group slashed its total workforce by 9% last year to save costs as jobs markets globally slowed sharply, cutting its fee-earning consultants by 12%, and by 7% in the final six months alone, to 7,971.

Nationwide Building Society research said consumers hit by the cost-of-living crisis are 'spending smart'

Greggs fans say they can't wait to try the chain's new chicken burgers that look 'banging' and cost less than £4. However, many soon realised only select stores are carrying the new additions

Sainsbury's is trialling the new electronic security cabinets in the alcohol aisles of a “small number of stores” as part of its wider plans to prevent shoplifters

The Wine and Spirit Trade Association says last year's increases had a "immediate and negative impact" on UK businesses

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The scheme involves mobile operators sharing infrastructure to boost mobile signal in rural areas

They're getting their first houses for an average of £244,100 which is 8% below the market average

Royal Mail customers will be able to send large parcel sized packages as first or second class, or as tracked mail, at Collect+ sites from next month, before it rolls out to 5,000 locations

The bank said its pre-tax profit surged by nearly 80% to top £24 billion in 2023, up from £13.6 billion the year before

The owners of the UK airport reported underlying pre-tax profits of £38 million in 2023, against losses of £684 million the previous year and marking the first time it has made a profit since 2019

The business said it now had "a high level of visibility of our revenues for many years to come", with some of the programmes running "well into the next decade"

Vistry said it recognised the concerns people have but was standing by the pay policy