Money
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NatWest close branches after housing-benefit protestsProtests sparked by clause in bank’s buy-to-let mortgage agreement forbidding landlords renting to ‘DSS’ tenants
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English sparkling wine tops Which? taste test of non-champagne fizzSurrey-made £16 bubbly outclasses foreign rivals such as prosecco, cava and crémant -
Black Friday: shoppers take to their mobile in search of best dealsLittle sign of the frenzied in-store scenes of a few years ago, with most sales made online -
Spark Energy goes bust and leaves 290,000 without a supplierFears other challengers will fold amid tough competition and rising wholesale costs -
HSBC mobile banking fails on day MPs launch inquiry into outagesService disruption comes as select committee starts looking into IT failures at banks
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Smart meters rollout labelled a 'fiasco' as consumers face extra £500m billNational Audit Office says that with 39m meters still to be replaced, government has no chance of hitting 2020 deadline



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