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A new banking app – “open banking”.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) concluded that new phone-based apps could show customers which banks may offer the best account. Banks will also have to set maximum monthly fees for unarranged overdrafts. But consumer group Which? said: “It is questionable whether these measures will be enough.”
Andy Burnham selected as Labour candidate for Manchester mayor
Andy Burnham has called for the government to give him the tools to build a Northern Powerhouse and is robustly demanding improvements to public transport and social care provision. You might think he is getting ahead of himself, considering he has only won Labour’s nomination for Greater Manchester mayor – he hasn’t actually got the job.
Yet, somehow, the Olympics roll around, and the world is still flooded with sexism…
Let’s be clear, the female athletes in Rio are there because they are, simply, the best at what they do. That’s all that needs to be celebrated. Instead, however, they have been illogically compared to men, identified by their relationships and, at times, flat-out body-shamed. And while there has been a ton of backlash to this blatant sexism, it doesn’t erase the fact that these women’s achievements are still being downplayed and sexualized, even as they’re winning Olympic medals.
Putin mends broken relations with Turkey’s Erdogan
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russian trade sanctions on Turkey would be phased out “step by step”. Their relations soured last November when Turkey shot down a Russian bomber on the Syrian border.
Speaking in St Petersburg Mr Erdogan thanked Mr Putin, saying a call from the Russian leader after the coup “meant a lot psychologically”.
He said “the Moscow-Ankara friendship axis will be restored”.
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Mirror Balls! Ex-shadow chancellor Ed Balls is set to star on Strictly Come Dancing.
The former shadow chancellor is reportedly among the stars who will take to the dance floor of the hit BBC show this autumn.
And he has been tipped by allies as a dark horse, with his regular appearances on the dance floor at annual Labour party conference set to help him tango to success.