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• 'My mortgage is going up £200': How rising interest rates are hitting people's pockets
  Source: BBC News - Business

  With UK interest rates set to rise, mortgages, credit cards and loans could get more expensive for millions.

• Food bank to close amid rising costs
  Source: BBC News - Business

  A food bank in Goole annouces it will close in January as costs rise and donations drop.

• Winter support for residents facing cost pressures
  Source: BBC News - Business

  The plans aim to help more people access food, financial advice and help with heating costs.

• 'I've taken an extra job to pay for heating oil'
  Source: BBC News - Business

  People in Sussex say they are taking on extra work and not heating their homes due to oil prices.

• UK found to be ‘dangerously’ reliant on China for critical minerals needed for defence and AI
  Source: The Guardian - World

  Delivering net zero also at risk, say MPs as they call for centralised policy and funding for mines and diversification The UK is “dangerously” dependent on China for critical raw materials needed for the military, renewable energy infrastructure and AI, a parliamentary investigation has found. MPs on the business select committee called for an urgent centralised policy and the creation of a “critical minerals finance facility” to help fund rare earth and other critical mineral mines, and deploy grants, equity and debt to accelerate a diversification programme. Continue reading...

• Pound rises to its highest level since the Brexit referendum
  Source: BBC News - Business

  Pound reaches highest level against a basket of currencies since the Brexit referendum a decade ago.

• British healthcare worker with Ebola evacuated from DR Congo to UK
  Source: The Guardian - World

  Patient is ⁠in ​stable condition and will be transferred to a specialist ‘high consequence’ infectious disease unit A British healthcare worker with Ebola is being evacuated from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the UK for medical treatment, it has been confirmed. “A British citizen currently in the DR Congo has tested positive for Ebola,” a spokesperson for the UK government said in a statement on Wednesday. “The UK has well-established procedures for dealing with cases like this, and those processes have been activated … The risk to the UK public from Ebola remains low.” Continue reading...

• EU urges action as Germany, Romania and UK report supermarket cyberattacks
  Source: Al Jazeera English - News

  EU says supermarket hacks in at least 11 countries are 'not isolated', but a Romanian official suspects no state actor.

• Reform UK councillor charged with 12 counts of rape and multiple other offences
  Source: The Guardian - World
• British lawyer Dapo Akande elected to UN top court in big diplomatic win
  Source: The Guardian - World
• Food suppliers in UK hit by cyber-attacks after freezers targeted in Europe
  Source: The Guardian - World

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