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Care Costs, Fuel Poverty and Frozen Bank Accounts

We'll all be paying more tax to help pay for a care cost cap but who and how many will benefit? And do we need fewer street signs and furniture to make town centres better?

We'll all be paying more in tax to help fund reforms in the care system but who and how many people will benefit and is the cap the most pressing requirement for our care system.

John Lewis are launching a new line of 'value' clothing aimed at competing. It'll be available online of course but they are also rolling out clothes in Waitrose supermarkets.

Our streets have been getting cluttered up with signage and furniture and now some councils think its making s roads unsafe and ugly and they want to strip them back. Our reporter Bob Walker has been having a look.

Charities are warning the people in fuel poverty could have a tough winter as record price rises for gas in the wholesale market have followed a 12% rise in the energy cap.

Has your bank closed your account with no explanation? It is happening more often and consumer champion Resolver says it is now one of the most common gripes from customers involving 25% of all complaints made to them about banks; so what is going on?

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