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Tesco has used Oakley Farm as its pumpkin 供給者 since 1996, when it made an 初期の order of 200 pumpkins. It now 推定する／予想するs to produce 5million this year and is the biggest grower in the country. We visit the farm to find out how pumpkins have become a 中心的要素 of Halloween and 正確に／まさに how they go from farm to 蓄える／店.

At 62, Sir Keir Starmer has paid off the mortgage on his £2m North London townhouse, ending it five years earlier than is 基準 for British 所有物／資産／財産 owners. On a typical mortgage of £185,000 with a 25-year 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 and a 4.93% 利益／興味 率, a £100 a month ?overpayment would see you 支払う／賃金ing the mortgage off three years and nine months 早期に.

A lucky 賞与金 社債s 支えるもの／所有者 based in Gloucestershire has bagged a £100k prize with a 持つ／拘留するing of just £275. We look at some of the luckiest and most ありそうもない 賞与金 社債s prize 勝利者s from the October draw.

I worked from 17 to 74 支払う／賃金ing 十分な 国家の 保険 until I was 60. My friend worked part-time and she gets 年金 credit with all its perks. I have osteoporosis and osteoarthritis, and because I am just over the 限界 for any 利益s will not qualify for any help with my heating this winter. I will be in agony if it gets very, very 冷淡な and I think the system is 不正に 欠陥d and needs looking at again.

Have you won one of this month's major prizes? Our （米）棚上げする／（英）提議するs show all the £1,000 to £1m 勝利者s. You can also look up the 勝利者s for the past 12 months and tap in your 社債 numbers to see how の近くに you were to winning.

Savers funneled £17.2bn more into cash Isas in the 12 months to August 2024 than they did in the same period during 2023 as they try to 少なくなる the sting of 貯金 利益／興味 税金.

At the age of 62, Sir Keir Starmer is sitting pretty. From next month, his bank balance will be higher because there is one いっそう少なく 月毎の 法案 he has to 支払う／賃金. If you decide to join Sir Keir and 支払う／賃金 off your mortgage 早期に, you'll need to 交渉する the 支配するs 始める，決める by your 貸す人 to 避ける 可能性のある 刑罰，罰則s, 同様に as deciding whether the 安全 of 100 per cent 所有権 is 価値（がある） 貿易（する）ing for a 欠如（する） of 財政上の 柔軟性 and 潜在的に high returns from other sources.

This is Money's モーターing 専門家 Freda 吊りくさび-Stempel drove MG's new ZS to see if the SUV is as good a 取引 as the price tag 示唆するs. Building on the success of the old model, the new 2024 見解／翻訳／版 has had an exterior redesign, an 内部の 昇格 and a hybrid engine 精密検査する to tempt 買い手s by 申し込む／申し出ing more bang for buck. So just how good value for money is MG's new model? We took the new Hybrid+ model out and about in the Cotswolds to put it through its paces.

House prices rose at the fastest pace in more than two years, によれば the 最新の 人物／姿／数字s from 全国的な. It means the 普通の／平均（する） house price is now 概略で 2% below the 史上最高s 記録，記録的な／記録するd in summer 2022.

With one month to go before the 予算 - what should we be doing to 準備する? Give your money away, stick it in an Isa, use up your 十分な CGT 控除, up your 年金 出資／貢献s... or just やめる the country? This week, Georgie 霜, Simon Lambert and 物陰／風下 Boyce take a look at last minute 財政上の planning ahead of the new 政府's first 予算 on 30 October.

Pfizer has offloaded a £2.43billion 火刑／賭ける in Haleon, which in turn said it would buy 支援する £230million of the 株. Haleon, which makes Panadol painkillers and Sensodyne toothpaste, said it had bought the 株 at 308p each. The off-market 購入（する） 含むs 30.1million 株 価値（がある） around £114.6million which will be cancelled and 代表する the 残りの人，物 of the £500million 配分するd to 株 buybacks this year.

The 転換 to 数字表示式の has made life easier for many people. But one in four Britons feel they are digitally 除外するd in some form, 研究 from the UK's cash 接近 and ATM 網状組織 Link shows. Adrian Roberts, 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある of Link, asks whether the UK is really ready to go 数字表示式の.

You might argue that there are plenty of 推論する／理由s to up sticks and 逃げる the country 権利 now - 崩壊するing public services, higher living costs and 法外な 増加するs in school 料金s to 指名する but three. 労働 is already considering ending the 225-year-old 非，不，無-dom 税金 譲歩 that 許すs 豊富な people whose main home is overseas to live in the UK and not 支払う／賃金 税金 on their foreign income. And 資本／首都 伸び（る）s, 相続物件s and 年金s are tipped as prime 的s for 税金 rises in next month's 予算.

Rachel Reeves is 始める，決める to follow the example of previous （ドイツなどの）首相／（大学の）学長s by changing the いわゆる '会計の 支配するs' - the 政府's self-課すd 限界s on 負債 and borrowing. The 会計の 支配するs have been changed six times in the past nine years alone, 公式文書，認めるs Lindsay James, 投資 strategist at wealth 経営者／支配人 Quilter.

Insiders say that 政府 公式の／役人s 認める last week to 存在 動揺させるd by the 規模 of the fury 原因（となる）d by 労働's 決定／判定勝ち（する） to 削除する winter 燃料 支払い（額）s. によれば a 財務省 source, 大臣s 'hadn't factored in just how angry people would be'. 直面するd with a furious army of pensioners, 産業 insiders 推定する／予想する the （ドイツなどの）首相／（大学の）学長 to be more 警報 to the strong emotions that come from tinkering with people's 退職s. But that won't stop Rachel Reeves from touching 年金s 完全に. The 合意 の中で the 年金s 産業 is that they are too rich to leave untouched in the first 労働 予算. Half a dozen of Britain's 主要な 年金 専門家s who are in 正規の／正選手 会談 with 政府 and 財務省 公式の／役人s ahead of the 予算 all agree - 年金s are in the crosshairs.

I bought this brooch at a car boot around 30 years. It was 初めは sold to me as 衣装 jewellery that belonged to a 死んだ family member of the 立ち往生させる 支えるもの／所有者. But I recently dug it out and starting to think I may have something 価値のある. I can see an 18 on the 支援する.

I've been an American 表明する 顧客 for years. I 以前 had a Gold card, but cancelled this in 2007 and switched to a British 航空路s 賞与金 加える card.However, I recently discovered the Gold card was never cancelled, and that I have been 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金d the 年次の 会員の地位 料金 for the last 17 years. Concerningly, I have now been told new cards have been sent in the 地位，任命する when old ones 満了する／死ぬd - I believe at least four - and have gone to my old 演説（する）／住所.

Typically, 投資家s can look beyond the 猛烈な／残忍な politicking, but in this 事例／患者 Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have はっきりと 相違する 計画（する）s that could have 厳しい fallout whoever 勝利，勝つs. Given the US's 超大国 status that won't be just on the 国内の 前線. Trump wants to end the war in ウクライナ共和国 but start a 全世界の 貿易（する） war. Harris ーするつもりであるs to 引き上げ（る） 法人税s, creating a 抱擁する 可能性のある 攻撃する，衝突する to the 収入s of 塀で囲む Street 巨大（な）s that sit in almost all 大臣の地位s. Here, 最高の，を越す 投資するing 専門家s 申し込む／申し出 tips on how best to 掴む new 適切な時期s, or 保護する your 資本／首都.

We can easily afford to save £1000 per month from our 年金 incomes without having any 消極的な 影響する／感情 on our own lives. My 関心 is that I save all this money and then the 大多数 of it is taken from us if either myself or my wife, or both, need a care home in later years.

Choosing the 権利 DIY 壇・綱領・公約 is 決定的な but a wealth of choice and a variety of 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s can leave 投資家s scratching their 長，率いるs. We 選ぶ some of the best. We 選ぶ some of the best. We also 最高潮の場面 why 投資するing in an Isa makes sense, as it should 保護する your hopefully growing 投資s from 税金 forever.