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Tesco Bank travel insurance review

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Does tesco bank offer the best travel insurance, how good are tesco bank's travel insurance policies, how good is tesco bank at handling claims, tesco bank travel insurance: how can i claim.

Tesco Bank offers a range of travel insurance policies, with cover available for standard travel, extended backpacking, cruises and winter sports.

We've reviewed five Tesco Bank travel insurance policies: Economy (least comprehensive), Standard and Premier (most comprehensive), and also Backpacker Economy and Backpacker Premier.

Tesco Bank Travel Insurance is underwritten by Inter Partner Assistance SA (part of Axa). 

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The latest data from the Financial Conduct Authority shows that Inter Partner Assistance SA – Tesco Bank's underwriter – accepted 70-75% of claims made on annual European policies in 2022. This is below the industry average of 76%

It accepted 80-85% of claims made on annual worldwide policies – in line with the average of 82%

The underwriter paid 85-90% of claims made on single trip policies – above the average of 73%

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The Moscow Metro Museum of Art: 10 Must-See Stations

There are few times one can claim having been on the subway all afternoon and loving it, but the Moscow Metro provides just that opportunity.  While many cities boast famous public transport systems—New York’s subway, London’s underground, San Salvador’s chicken buses—few warrant hours of exploration.  Moscow is different: Take one ride on the Metro, and you’ll find out that this network of railways can be so much more than point A to B drudgery.

The Metro began operating in 1935 with just thirteen stations, covering less than seven miles, but it has since grown into the world’s third busiest transit system ( Tokyo is first ), spanning about 200 miles and offering over 180 stops along the way.  The construction of the Metro began under Joseph Stalin’s command, and being one of the USSR’s most ambitious building projects, the iron-fisted leader instructed designers to create a place full of svet (radiance) and svetloe budushchee (a radiant future), a palace for the people and a tribute to the Mother nation.

Consequently, the Metro is among the most memorable attractions in Moscow.  The stations provide a unique collection of public art, comparable to anything the city’s galleries have to offer and providing a sense of the Soviet era, which is absent from the State National History Museum.  Even better, touring the Metro delivers palpable, experiential moments, which many of us don’t get standing in front of painting or a case of coins.

Though tours are available , discovering the Moscow Metro on your own provides a much more comprehensive, truer experience, something much less sterile than following a guide.  What better place is there to see the “real” Moscow than on mass transit: A few hours will expose you to characters and caricatures you’ll be hard-pressed to find dining near the Bolshoi Theater.  You become part of the attraction, hear it in the screech of the train, feel it as hurried commuters brush by: The Metro sucks you beneath the city and churns you into the mix.

With the recommendations of our born-and-bred Muscovite students, my wife Emma and I have just taken a self-guided tour of what some locals consider the top ten stations of the Moscow Metro. What most satisfied me about our Metro tour was the sense of adventure .  I loved following our route on the maps of the wagon walls as we circled the city, plotting out the course to the subsequent stops; having the weird sensation of being underground for nearly four hours; and discovering the next cavern of treasures, playing Indiana Jones for the afternoon, piecing together fragments of Russia’s mysterious history.  It’s the ultimate interactive museum.

Top Ten Stations (In order of appearance)

Kievskaya station.

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Kievskaya Station went public in March of 1937, the rails between it and Park Kultury Station being the first to cross the Moscow River.  Kievskaya is full of mosaics depicting aristocratic scenes of Russian life, with great cameo appearances by Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin.  Each work has a Cyrillic title/explanation etched in the marble beneath it; however, if your Russian is rusty, you can just appreciate seeing familiar revolutionary dates like 1905 ( the Russian Revolution ) and 1917 ( the October Revolution ).

Mayakovskaya Station

Mayakovskaya Station ranks in my top three most notable Metro stations. Mayakovskaya just feels right, done Art Deco but no sense of gaudiness or pretention.  The arches are adorned with rounded chrome piping and create feeling of being in a jukebox, but the roof’s expansive mosaics of the sky are the real showstopper.  Subjects cleverly range from looking up at a high jumper, workers atop a building, spires of Orthodox cathedrals, to nimble aircraft humming by, a fleet of prop planes spelling out CCCP in the bluest of skies.

Novoslobodskaya Station

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Novoslobodskaya is the Metro’s unique stained glass station.  Each column has its own distinctive panels of colorful glass, most of them with a floral theme, some of them capturing the odd sailor, musician, artist, gardener, or stenographer in action.  The glass is framed in Art Deco metalwork, and there is the lovely aspect of discovering panels in the less frequented haunches of the hall (on the trackside, between the incoming staircases).  Novosblod is, I’ve been told, the favorite amongst out-of-town visitors.

Komsomolskaya Station

Komsomolskaya Station is one of palatial grandeur.  It seems both magnificent and obligatory, like the presidential palace of a colonial city.  The yellow ceiling has leafy, white concrete garland and a series of golden military mosaics accenting the tile mosaics of glorified Russian life.  Switching lines here, the hallway has an Alice-in-Wonderland feel, impossibly long with decorative tile walls, culminating in a very old station left in a remarkable state of disrepair, offering a really tangible glimpse behind the palace walls.

Dostoevskaya Station

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Dostoevskaya is a tribute to the late, great hero of Russian literature .  The station at first glance seems bare and unimpressive, a stark marble platform without a whiff of reassembled chips of tile.  However, two columns have eerie stone inlay collages of scenes from Dostoevsky’s work, including The Idiot , The Brothers Karamazov , and Crime and Punishment.   Then, standing at the center of the platform, the marble creates a kaleidoscope of reflections.  At the entrance, there is a large, inlay portrait of the author.

Chkalovskaya Station

Chkalovskaya does space Art Deco style (yet again).  Chrome borders all.  Passageways with curvy overhangs create the illusion of walking through the belly of a chic, new-age spacecraft.  There are two (kos)mosaics, one at each end, with planetary subjects.  Transferring here brings you above ground, where some rather elaborate metalwork is on display.  By name similarity only, I’d expected Komsolskaya Station to deliver some kosmonaut décor; instead, it was Chkalovskaya that took us up to the space station.

Elektrozavodskaya Station

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Elektrozavodskaya is full of marble reliefs of workers, men and women, laboring through the different stages of industry.  The superhuman figures are round with muscles, Hollywood fit, and seemingly undeterred by each Herculean task they respectively perform.  The station is chocked with brass, from hammer and sickle light fixtures to beautiful, angular framework up the innards of the columns.  The station’s art pieces are less clever or extravagant than others, but identifying the different stages of industry is entertaining.

Baumanskaya Statio

Baumanskaya Station is the only stop that wasn’t suggested by the students.  Pulling in, the network of statues was just too enticing: Out of half-circle depressions in the platform’s columns, the USSR’s proud and powerful labor force again flaunts its success.  Pilots, blacksmiths, politicians, and artists have all congregated, posing amongst more Art Deco framing.  At the far end, a massive Soviet flag dons the face of Lenin and banners for ’05, ’17, and ‘45.  Standing in front of the flag, you can play with the echoing roof.

Ploshchad Revolutsii Station

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Novokuznetskaya Station

Novokuznetskaya Station finishes off this tour, more or less, where it started: beautiful mosaics.  This station recalls the skyward-facing pieces from Mayakovskaya (Station #2), only with a little larger pictures in a more cramped, very trafficked area.  Due to a line of street lamps in the center of the platform, it has the atmosphere of a bustling market.  The more inventive sky scenes include a man on a ladder, women picking fruit, and a tank-dozer being craned in.  The station’s also has a handsome black-and-white stone mural.

Here is a map and a brief description of our route:

Start at (1)Kievskaya on the “ring line” (look for the squares at the bottom of the platform signs to help you navigate—the ring line is #5, brown line) and go north to Belorusskaya, make a quick switch to the Dark Green/#2 line, and go south one stop to (2)Mayakovskaya.  Backtrack to the ring line—Brown/#5—and continue north, getting off at (3)Novosblodskaya and (4)Komsolskaya.  At Komsolskaya Station, transfer to the Red/#1 line, go south for two stops to Chistye Prudy, and get on the Light Green/#10 line going north.  Take a look at (5)Dostoevskaya Station on the northern segment of Light Green/#10 line then change directions and head south to (6)Chkalovskaya, which offers a transfer to the Dark Blue/#3 line, going west, away from the city center.  Have a look (7)Elektroskaya Station before backtracking into the center of Moscow, stopping off at (8)Baumskaya, getting off the Dark Blue/#3 line at (9)Ploschad Revolyutsii.  Change to the Dark Green/#2 line and go south one stop to see (10)Novokuznetskaya Station.

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Jonathon Engels, formerly a patron saint of misadventure, has been stumbling his way across cultural borders since 2005 and is currently volunteering in the mountains outside of Antigua, Guatemala.  For more of his work, visit his website and blog .

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Tesco accused of using cash and carry to ‘squeeze’ village stores out of business

Exclusive: Independent retailers, many running post offices, say wholesale arm Booker is restricting supplies and deliveries

Village stores have sounded the alarm over what they claim is a battle for survival, accusing the supermarket group Tesco of using its cash-and-carry arm to “squeeze” them out of business by restricting supplies and deliveries of groceries.

Independent retailers, many of them also running the local post office, have told the Guardian that a series of changes recently introduced by Tesco’s wholesale arm, Booker, were adding to pressures at a time when some villages had been left with just one small shop – or none at all.

They claim Booker has:

Reduced the range of items available by up to 30% at some sites.

Withdrawn customer favourites at some sites including Yorkshire Tea, Rowntree’s sweets and Colman’s mustard.

Reduced the availability and reliability of deliveries.

Andrew Goodacre, the chief executive of the British Independent Retailers Association (Bira), called on the UK competition watchdog to examine the issue and said he would be raising the matter with Kevin Hollinrake, the minister for small business.

“I think it’s shocking,” Goodacre said of the problems reported by small retailers. “This shows the worst of a large company bullying little shops. Communities want these small shops and these are not businesses making millions of pounds.”

Seven years ago, the competition watchdog took a much-criticised decision to wave through the acquisition of Booker , the country’s biggest grocery wholesaler, by Tesco, its biggest supermarket chain.

Via Booker, Tesco also controls the Londis, Budgens and Premier groups, which are made up of thousands of independent stores tied into buying deals with the wholesaler.

In 2017, at the time of the Booker takeover, rival wholesalers wrote to the Competition and Markets Authority warning it would hand Tesco “incontestable power over the procurement of all grocery categories in the UK”.

Jonathan Cobb, who runs the village shop and post office in Miserden, Gloucestershire, said it felt like the fears raised then were now a reality. His local Booker has stopped selling sought-after brands including Colman’s mustard, Tuc and Cheddars biscuits.

The alternatives provided are often branded with the Jack’s label, supplied by Booker, which has packaging displaying the catchline: “part of the Tesco family”. Cobb said he did not wish to sell Jack’s products “as it says Tesco on it”.

As much as 30% of the range he previously bought from Booker could no longer be sourced, said Cobb, and it felt like Tesco was “slowly pushing us aside”.

He cannot order enough for a delivery as there is nowhere to store those goods in his small shop. He also wants to continue supporting local farms by buying fresh meat, fruit and vegetables from them and does not want to be solely reliant on one wholesaler.

Some people take a seat outside Miserden Stores, the village shop Jonathan and Laura Cobb own in Gloucestershire.

The Guardian interviewed five small retailers and was shown comments by others from online forums. Shop owners agreed that as much as 20% to 30% of the lines they usually bought from Booker had been affected.

A wider number of items can be sourced from Booker if a retailer requests a delivery. However, many small stores, which may only make sales of £1,400 a week, cannot reach the £1,200-a-week minimum order.

One village shop owner said she did order enough to get deliveries, spending about £1,500 a week, but she said Booker now charged £40 for delivery and had reduced its range by a “significant amount” so that she was having to try and find alternative sources of supply.

She added that she was no longer able to order just the one or two packs of frozen chips and fish fingers she needed because Booker now demanded a minimum of a whole case and there was not space in her freezer.

She said she had spent hours searching for alternative sources of supply but most were too far away or required additional work such as inputting every item into the till system by hand, whereas Booker provides the information electronically for a quick download.

She said she felt like Booker was “deliberately trying to squeeze us out of the market so everybody has to go to the big Tesco”.

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“It’s not going to put me out of business but I am going to lose customers and that will make everything harder. If they carry on the policy it could just be a matter of years before I go out of business,” she added.

Another village shop owner said: “Since Tesco have taken [Booker] over it has got harder and harder to get products for the shop. Only two weeks ago they discontinued 400 retail lines.”

She said her local Booker would not provide a delivery as she was not a catering business, for which the minimum order the wholesaler requires is £150.

“Our local pub has a delivery nearly every week. They only have to spend [about] £100 with no delivery charge. The lorry goes right past the shop,” she added.

A Booker wholesale food store in south London in January 2017.

One industry insider said the changes were hitting the smallest village stores the hardest, particularly those in rural areas that might have little choice of wholesalers.

The well-placed source said: “Tesco wants to move into the catering trade and that is its main objective. There has been a lot of increase in catering stock and in order to make space for that it has reduced retail stock.”

He added that Booker had recently bought larger delivery lorries that struggled to access small country lanes and this had also meant cutbacks to delivery rounds.

Booker has said it is not aiming to increase its catering market share at the expense of its retail trade and recently invested in a distribution centre to grow retail capacity. It confirmed it did not deliver to some rural areas in the south-west but said that had not been changed recently.

Retailers that could get deliveries said they were no longer seen as a priority and so could find deliveries delayed at the last minute.

“It’s harder and harder to get a delivery,” the well-placed industry source said. “There is an imbalance of power between local shops and a large supplier.”

Booker announced in February it would be tightening up its range for retailers which it said had become “a little bloated”, according to a report in the trade journal Better Retailing. The wholesaler said it would also be introducing more Jack’s own-label and more fresh produce after reviewing 151 different grocery categories last year. It promised to “respect regional and local lines”.

Sheila Gallagher, Booker’s commercial director, said the changes would make the wholesaler’s range “more effective” with “better efficiencies”.

A spokesperson for Booker said: “We remain absolutely committed to serving community shops across the UK either through branch or delivery.

“Last year, we reviewed our range across all branded and own-brand products to ensure we have the right offer and in response to feedback that customers want more consistency across branches. As part of that review, we removed products that customers weren’t choosing, to make more space for products that really matter. Overall feedback has been positive and we’ve already seen improvements in availability.”

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Touring the Top 10 Moscow Metro Stations

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Komsomolskaya metro station

Komsomolskaya metro station looks like a museum. It has vaulted ceilings and baroque decor.

Hidden underground, in the heart of Moscow, are historical and architectural treasures of Russia. These are Soviet-era creations – the metro stations of Moscow.

Our guide Maria introduced these elaborate metro stations as “the palaces for the people.” Built between 1937 and 1955, each station holds its own history and stories. Stalin had the idea of building beautiful underground spaces that the masses could enjoy. They would look like museums, art centers, concert halls, palaces and churches. Each would have a different theme. None would be alike.

The two-hour private tour was with a former Intourist tour guide named Maria. Maria lived in Moscow all her life and through the communist era of 60s to 90s. She has been a tour guide for more than 30 years. Being in her 60s, she moved rather quickly for her age. We traveled and crammed with Maria and other Muscovites on the metro to visit 10 different metro stations.

Arrow showing the direction of metro line 1 and 2

Arrow showing the direction of metro line 1 and 2

Moscow subways are very clean

Moscow subways are very clean

To Maria, every street, metro and building told a story. I couldn’t keep up with her stories. I don’t remember most of what she said because I was just thrilled being in Moscow.   Added to that, she spilled out so many Russian words and names, which to one who can’t read Cyrillic, sounded so foreign and could be easily forgotten.

The metro tour was the first part of our all day tour of Moscow with Maria. Here are the stations we visited:

1. Komsomolskaya Metro Station  is the most beautiful of them all. Painted yellow and decorated with chandeliers, gold leaves and semi precious stones, the station looks like a stately museum. And possibly decorated like a palace. I saw Komsomolskaya first, before the rest of the stations upon arrival in Moscow by train from St. Petersburg.

2. Revolution Square Metro Station (Ploshchad Revolyutsii) has marble arches and 72 bronze sculptures designed by Alexey Dushkin. The marble arches are flanked by the bronze sculptures. If you look closely you will see passersby touching the bronze dog's nose. Legend has it that good luck comes to those who touch the dog's nose.

Touch the dog's nose for good luck. At the Revolution Square station

Touch the dog's nose for good luck. At the Revolution Square station

Revolution Square Metro Station

Revolution Square Metro Station

3. Arbatskaya Metro Station served as a shelter during the Soviet-era. It is one of the largest and the deepest metro stations in Moscow.

Arbatskaya Metro Station

Arbatskaya Metro Station

4. Biblioteka Imeni Lenina Metro Station was built in 1935 and named after the Russian State Library. It is located near the library and has a big mosaic portrait of Lenin and yellow ceramic tiles on the track walls.

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Lenin's portrait at the Biblioteka Imeni Lenina Metro Station

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5. Kievskaya Metro Station was one of the first to be completed in Moscow. Named after the capital city of Ukraine by Kiev-born, Nikita Khruschev, Stalin's successor.

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Kievskaya Metro Station

6. Novoslobodskaya Metro Station  was built in 1952. It has 32 stained glass murals with brass borders.

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Novoslobodskaya metro station

7. Kurskaya Metro Station was one of the first few to be built in Moscow in 1938. It has ceiling panels and artwork showing Soviet leadership, Soviet lifestyle and political power. It has a dome with patriotic slogans decorated with red stars representing the Soviet's World War II Hall of Fame. Kurskaya Metro Station is a must-visit station in Moscow.

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Ceiling panel and artworks at Kurskaya Metro Station

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8. Mayakovskaya Metro Station built in 1938. It was named after Russian poet Vladmir Mayakovsky. This is one of the most beautiful metro stations in the world with 34 mosaics painted by Alexander Deyneka.

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One of the over 30 ceiling mosaics in Mayakovskaya metro station

9. Belorusskaya Metro Station is named after the people of Belarus. In the picture below, there are statues of 3 members of the Partisan Resistance in Belarus during World War II. The statues were sculpted by Sergei Orlov, S. Rabinovich and I. Slonim.

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10. Teatralnaya Metro Station (Theatre Metro Station) is located near the Bolshoi Theatre.

Teatralnaya Metro Station decorated with porcelain figures .

Teatralnaya Metro Station decorated with porcelain figures .

Taking the metro's escalator at the end of the tour with Maria the tour guide.

Taking the metro's escalator at the end of the tour with Maria the tour guide.

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An excellent read! Thanks for much for sharing the Russian metro system with us. We're heading to Moscow in April and exploring the metro stations were on our list and after reading your post, I'm even more excited to go visit them. Thanks again 🙂

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In a monitoring report, following its fuel market study of 2022, the Competition and Market Authority (CMA) said fuel margins - the difference between what retailers pay for their fuel and the price they sell it at - remained "concerning".

The regulator said supermarket margins, which had stood at 4% in 2017, rose to 7.8% in 2023.

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This was "not a good sign for drivers", the CMA said, though it stopped short of openly declaring that they were being overcharged.

Lobby groups representing both the supermarkets and independent retailers, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and Petrol Retailers Association (PRA) respectively, have consistently denied ripping drivers off.

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By Victoria Seabrook , climate reporter 

Emissions of climate-heating gases from the UK continued to fall last year.

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But the reasons aren't entirely good.

While most of the fall last year was down to the UK burning less gas for electricity because it imported more from France, a large chunk was due to homes and businesses cutting back on electricity amid soaring prices.

Budgets were also "squeezed" by high interest rates, inflation and mortgages, said Glenn Rickson, who analyses the UK power sector for S&P Global Commodity Insights.

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The PCS union has warned the changes could see 250 members of staff lose their jobs by the end of April.

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Respected energy consultants Cornwall Insight have predicted the typical household's energy bill will fall to £1,560 a year from July. 

That's more than £100 less than the price cap that comes into force on Monday, which is set at £1,690 a year. 

However, the leading market researcher's latest prediction is around 7% higher than its previous forecast from around a month ago.

Ofgem changes the price cap every three months based on several factors, the most important of which is the price of energy on wholesale markets.

Wholesale prices recently hit their lowest point for a quarter of a decade, but have risen slightly in recent weeks.

The price cap does not limit a household's total bills - the figures provided are just for an average-use household.

Cornwall Insight also predicts the price cap will rise slightly from the July figure to £1,631 in October. 

"With wholesale prices hitting a two-and-a-half-year low, it was only a matter of time before a slight rise occurred as the market stabilises," Dr Craig Lowrey, its principal consultant, said.

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Thousands of you have left a comment in the form at the top of this page in the past two weeks.

And they fall broadly into three categories: anger, questions and people saying their bosses also swindle them out of annual holiday after this week's Money Problem...

We're going to tackle a few of the employment disputes in our Money Problem series (this runs every Monday) over the coming months and your correspondence has prompted us to write a Basically... feature on employment rights that will be published this coming Tuesday.

Turning to some of your questions , we had this...

What is Labour's position on compensation for Waspi women? Because, hand-on-heart I think if Labour won power they would play the "we haven't got the money card". Worried of Shropshire

As has been widely reported, the government has refused to commit to compensation for women born in the 1950s and affected by how changes to their pension age were brought forward.

Labour, too, has been vague, with shadow women and equalities secretary Anneliese Dodds telling the BBC on Sunday: "Those women deserve respect, that's the most important [thing].

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Interested in how to buy healthier bread as it can be confusing. I get why sourdough might be healthier because of how it's made. But the question of salt content has not been addressed here. Bread has a significant amount of salt. Does sourdough have less salt? Mrs Helene Shorter

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All this said, sourdough does have a "great nutritional profile"...

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On Summer Scholes's 16th birthday, two days after her mum died, the first thing on her mind was getting a job to keep a roof over her head.

It was 2021, and alongside her studies in Margate, Summer said she worked for £4.62 an hour (the minimum wage for under-18s at the time) just so she and her aunt could pay rent and put food in the fridge.

By the time she was 18, last September, she was spending the summer working 50 hours a week in hospitality for £375, while her colleagues aged 21 were legally entitled to at least £134 more for the same job.

There are three different adult minimum wages in the UK, determined by age. On Monday, the government will reduce this to two, but inequality between those aged 18-20 and those aged 21 and over will remain.

"I strongly disagree with it. As someone who is 19, I see the work that I do and the work that my friends do, and I believe that we work just as hard, if not harder, than some of the people who are older than us," Summer told the Money blog.

She said she had felt undervalued, adding: "I think it should be based on someone's work ethic and their ability to do a job.

"I was unable to save for any of my future studies, which is why I'm now at college for an extra couple of years."

Sky News understands from sources at the Department for Business and Trade that the government believes the pay disparity will encourage businesses to keep younger employees and avoid them being exposed to prolonged unemployment.

But GMB Union officer Ross Holden said the cost of living crisis did not discriminate based on age and the government was denying young workers the "equal earnings they should be entitled to".

"It's an outrage that those under 21 working average hours on the minimum wage could be left up to £159 a week out of pocket than older colleagues doing the same job. There is no excuse for wage rates based on age - ending them is long overdue."

Last year, about 34% of employees aged 18-20 were paid between £7.49, the hourly minimum wage for their age bracket, and £10.18, the minimum for the next age bracket, according to the Low Pay Commission, which advises the government on setting wage rates.

UK at 'extreme end' of pay disparity

The UK is not alone in having age-based minimum wage legislation, but it is "on the relatively extreme end of penalising the over-18-year-olds", Ken Mayhew, economist and Oxford University professor, said.

In France, under-17s with fewer than six months' experience can be paid 80% of the minimum wage, he said. In the Netherlands, the minimum tapers upwards to age 21, while in the US, there is a small variation for those aged below 20 in their first 90 days of employment.

Professor Mayhew said employers could justify lower wages during a training period - when young workers are less productive - "but I think for national legislation to assume that's true for all 18 to 20-year-olds is dodgy, quite frankly".

Some employer groups have previously said they wouldn't hire less experienced adults if they had to pay them an equal wage, Professor Mayhew said.

But, he added, those groups also argued employees of all ages would be priced out of jobs when the minimum wage was first introduced in 1998 - yet "the employment effects have been minor to non-existent".

Small businesses saw their wage bills increase by 14% at the end of last year, according to the Sage small business tracker.

The British Chamber of Commerce and the Federation of Small Businesses declined to comment on the upcoming minimum wage changes.

The Association of Convenience Stores did not respond to a request for comment.

The British Retail Consortium said: "The retail industry recognises the value of its employees and that's why the overwhelming majority of our members continue to pay above the minimum wage rate regardless of age."

Real living wage?

The Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers called the government's policy "deeply disappointing", saying all adults should be paid at least £12 an hour.

Businesses that pay all their employees £12 - rising to £13.15 in London - are accredited by the Living Wage Foundation (LWF) as paying the so-called real living wage.

Head of communications John Hood said: "An 18-year-old, a lot of the time, they're not a dependent. They're paying for their housing, they're paying rent, they're paying transport bills, council tax – all the same costs that a 21-year-old is paying."

He said the difference between the minimum wage and the real living wage was "the difference between being able to live with dignity, with security, with stability, to be able to plan for your future".

Summer recently joined those on the real living wage after being hired by Newington Fish Bar, in Margate.

"It makes me feel a lot more equal and more valued," she said, "like my work is being appreciated."

A government spokesperson said: "There have been different rates for younger age groups since the introduction of the minimum wage in 1998, but this government is giving young people a pay rise to put more money in their pockets.

"From 1 April, we will increase the National Minimum Wage for 18 to 20-year-olds by over 14%, giving someone in full-time employment a gross annual pay rise of over £2,000."

 By Sarah Taffee-Maguire , business reporter 

Nearly a tenth of Papa John's pizza outlets in the UK are to close in an effort to boost company profits.

A total of 43 of its 450 locations across the country have been found to be "low-performing" or "underperforming" and are said to no longer be financially viable.

The sites will be closed by mid-May, Papa John's said - after it informs impacted staff.

The company would not say how many jobs are to be lost; how many people work at the locations; nor the number of staff it employs across the UK.

The company aims to close branches in the following locations:

  • Cricklewood
  • East Dulwich
  • East Grinstead
  • Leeds - Meanwood
  • Liverpool - West
  • Middlesbrough
  • Mottingham (London)
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The chief executive of Thames Water has refused to rule out bill increases of up to 40% for customers as the troubled company tries to secure its future.

Chris Weston told Sky News' Ian King he did not think the firm had been "at all secretive" about the possibility of prices rises.

It comes after shareholders blamed Ofwat for not giving the "regulatory support" needed to help the company's turnaround plan.

The nine shareholders said they had been in talks with Thames Water and the regulator to try to find a way through the "complex challenges" facing the company.

But in a statement, they said: "After more than a year of negotiations, Ofwat has not been prepared to provide the necessary regulatory support for a business plan which ultimately addresses the issues that Thames Water faces.

"As a result, shareholders are not in a position to provide further funding to Thames Water."

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