The most affordable town in Britain has been revealed as Cumnock in East Ayrshire - where homes cost £80,000. Read this and the rest of today's consumer and personal finance news below - and tell us what you think in the box below.
By Sarah Taaffe-Maguire, business and economics reporterThe pound is at the lowest since late June and the FTSE 100, the UK's benchmark stock index, isn't doing much better either. The pound has hit $1.2638 down from $1.30 just a week ago while the FTSE 100 index of most valuable companies on the London Stock Exchange is slowly recovering from the lowest close since April over concerns about Donald Trump's position on China and disappointing corporate results.It's up 0.
25% today but hasn't recovered from the falls over the past month. Burberry was one of the companies pushing up the larger more-UK focused FTSE 250 index. Its share price is up near a whopping 17% after it published a strategy update. It's another trading day and another company has updated us on the estimated cost to their business of the minimum wage rise and higher national insurance contributions.Young's pub group have put the cost at about £11m a year.
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