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Brexit: Tell EU the Chequers plan is final offer, says Leadsom

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Brussels must be told that the prime minister's blueprint for future UK-EU relations is "the final offer", Commons leader Andrea Leadsom has said. Mrs Leadsom  told The House magazine  the Chequers plan must be taken seriously or the EU risked a "no deal" Brexit. Boris Johnson and David Davis quit the cabinet over the prime minister's plan. Theresa May has denied claims the trade proposals were "dead in the water" after accepting Brexiteers' changes to the Customs Bill this week. The UK is due to leave the EU on 29 March 2019 but has yet to agree how its final relationship with the bloc will work. New Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab vows to 'intensify' talks Brexit barriers could cost households £1k each, report argues After a meeting of the cabinet at Chequers, last week the government published a White Paper setting out its preferred trading relationship with the EU. The UK is hoping the EU will back the proposals so a...
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Debit card payments more popular than cash

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Debit card payments have overtaken cash use for the first time, new figures show, as contactless technology takes a firm hold on day-to-day spending. A total of 13.2 billion debit card payments were made last year, a rise of 14% on the previous year, according to banking trade body UK Finance. That outstripped the 13.1 billion cash payments made, as the use of notes and coins dropped by 15%. An estimated 3.4 million people hardly used cash at all during the year. The annual report into the way consumers make payments revealed that the UK is a nation of spontaneous spenders. Only 15% of the 38.8 billion payments made in the UK in 2017 were for regular bills and commitments. These purchases have increasingly been made using contactless technology, when cards are placed on or near a reader without the need to enter a personal four-digit number. The frequency of contactless payments almost doubled in a year to 5.6 billion payments last year. This was most commonly used in su...
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Lawn mower man: Rodney Smith Jr completes 50 states challenge

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A Bermudan man has mowed his way through all 50 US states, cutting lawns for veterans, single mothers, the elderly and disabled people. Rodney Smith Jr, who lives in Huntsville, Alabama, set off across the country in May and ended his epic journey on 17 July. His group, Raising Men Lawn Care Service, aims to encourage children to take part in community service. This is the second year Mr Smith has done the challenge. On his website,  Mr Smith pledged to mow "2-3 lawns per state"  ahead of his journey, anywhere within a 30-mile radius of a major city in the state. A section on the site allowed people to "submit a lawn" for Mr Smith to mow. Starting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Mr Smith drove through all 48 contiguous states in the US mowing lawns. He then flew to Alaska and finally on to Hawaii, where he completed his mission. Posting about his travels on Twitter and Facebook, he said he was "making a difference one lawn at a time". Skip T...
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