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Shoppers face ‘wildly fluctuating prices’ across year on appliances – Which?Shoppers are often faced with “wildly” fluctuating prices on the most popular home and technology appliances, making it difficult to determine genuine bargains, a consumer group has warned.Which? tracked the prices of 32 of the most popular makes and models of appliances over a year across Amazon, AO.com, Argos, Currys PC World and John Lewis, finding “considerable” variations in almost all cases.The watchdog acknowledged that consumers could expect price reductions during sale periods, including the Black Friday event, but found several examples of fluctuations at other times, including a Vax vacuum cleaner at AO.com that varied from £299 at its highest point to £139, a 54% price difference.An LG television at Currys PC World varied in price by 48% from £328 at its cheapest to a maximum of £629 across the year, while a Samsung fridge-freezer at John Lewis and a Brother printer at Amazon both varied in price by 43%.
Greece Aiming for More Blue Flag Awards in 2019
Turkey repeats casus belli threatTurkey warned Greece on Tuesday that if it extends its territorial waters in the Aegean from 6 to 12 nautical miles it will be a cause for war. Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy... comments follow the announcement on Saturday by former foreign minister Nikos Kotzias that Athens was ready to extend its territorial waters to 12 nautical miles in the Ionian Sea.The extension concerns the sea region from the Diapontia Islands, a small cluster in the Ionian Sea, to Antikythera, an island lying between the Peloponnese and Crete.According to the 1995 declaration, Ankara considers an extension of territorial waters in the region including Crete, the eastern Peloponnese and all the way to Evia and the Pagasetic Gulf as a casus belli.The Greek Foreign Ministry rejected Turkey’s warnings, saying Greece has a “legitimate and inalienable sovereign right” to extend its territorial waters in accordance with international law.
The planned move would not affect the Aegean region, off the country's eastern and southern coasts.
Marine Tourism Big Boost to Greece’s GDP, INSETE FindsMarine tourism, which includes yachting & boating, cruise travel and coastal shipping, accounts for a considerable part of Greece’s GDP and employment, the Greek Tourism Confederation’s (SETE) research institute INSETE found in study released this week.
'Twisted' fibre optic light breakthrough could make internet 100 times faster
Sainsbury's launches range of sex toys—and they start at £8 Sainsbury's is expanding its offering from today, as it has revealed it has launched a range of sex toys.According to the supermarket's Living Well Index, sex life satisfaction has a significant impact on an individual’s sense of wellbeing and, alongside sleep, is one of the strongest indicators of how well a person is living.Sainsbury's has responded by adding the new range, allowing shoppers to add a sex toy to their weekly shopping list.The range will offer customers a choice of three vibrators: the Rose Gold Bullet (£8), Rose Blush Bullet (£12) and the Aura Silver Vibrator and Massager (£15).Two of the sex toys will be rolled out to 486 stores across the UK, with the Aura Silver vibrator available in 386. Sainsbury's hasn't identified the stores.Customers will start to see products appear on shelf from today, with all stores selling them by November 4.
Cathay Pacific hack: 10 million customers have data including passport and credit card details stolen
NHS charged £1,000 for bottle of mouthwash by 'ripoff' drug companies, MP warnsGovernment targetting temporary staff pay and hospital inefficiencies while neglecting millions of pounds and nursing hours wasted on medicines market
Self-driving car survey shows who exactly the world wants autonomous vehicles to sacrificeWhen self-driving cars arrive, they will be forced to decide who should die when they collide with members of the public. When something goes wrong, they will have to be programmed to opt for one group or another when deciding where to crash, an issue that has become a central ethical problem for those designing the cars.Researchers asked more than 2 million people in an attempt to establish who the public thinks should be sacrificed in those crashes. They were told to imagine a situation where a deadly crash was going to occur and the car had to choose between two sets of people – and asked to decide which of those groups would die.
When compared with an adult man or woman, the life of a criminal was especially poorly valued: respondents were more likely to spare the life of a dog (but not a cat).
Apple and Samsung fined for deliberately slowing down phonesItalian investigation found software updates ‘significantly reduced performance’, hastening new purchasesApple and Samsung are being fined €10m and €5m respectively in Italy for the “planned obsolescence” of their smartphones.
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