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Baking queen Mary Berry to celebrate damehood with sandwich
Dame Mary has been married to her retired antiquarian bookseller husband since 1966
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Orionid meteor shower to light up night sky
The Orionid meteor shower is active throughout October but is expected to peak on Friday
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New state pension changes means retirees could have £5.55-a-week increase
The state pension rises in line with inflation, earnings or 2.5% – whichever is higher
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Queen declines Oldie award and says ‘you are only as old as you feel’
She still keeps a busy diary of events and audiences and deals with her daily red boxes of official papers
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£1m average house price gap between England’s most and least expensive towns
England had an average house price of £259,000 in 2020
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Councils spent more than £171m on housing costs last year alone
These payments are top-ups given out by councils to help people on benefits experiencing financial difficulty with housing costs
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Petrol prices close to record high
The RAC has attributed rising petrol prices to several factors, including the increase in the cost of oil
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Government "keeping an eye" on new Covid variant
There have been 14,385 cases of the Delta Plus strain so far in the UK
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Worst food shortages in the UK
The North East and the East Midlands were hit particularly badly
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Government sets out £5,000 grants for households to swap boilers for heat pumps
It will cut emissions and reduce the UK’s dependency on fossil fuels
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Tesco launches first checkout-free high street store
Shoppers will need to use the Tesco.com app
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Queen and senior royals to host business leaders at Windsor Castle
Together they will host the Global Investment Summit