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Hilary Osborne

Money Talks: pension tips, lovely lakeside homes and the happiest jobs

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House prices rose at the start of the year, taking the average property price to almost £193,000. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

Hello and welcome to this week’s Money Talks – a roundup of the week’s biggest stories and some things you may have missed.

Mobile phone theft

Money news

House prices rise 2.6% in first quarter of 2015

Young people ‘increasingly giving up on owning a home’

Labour will scrap non-dom tax status

Aldi overtakes Waitrose to become UK’s sixth-largest supermarket

Mobile operators finally agree to cap bills in cases of theft

Shared parental leave rules come into force

Feature

The world’s happiest jobs

Boys in a field holding happy and sad facial expressions
Which jobs make people go to work with a smile on their faces? Photograph: Radius Images/Alamy

Work advice

Career cares? Work woes? Out of love with the office? Our expert is on hand to help. Put your questions to Jeremy, and help other readers with their worries.

Consumer champions

A car driving on a road

ScotRail is giving my sleeper ticket refund a wide berth

A car hire firm in Italy says the police want my details

O2 did not repay my credit when I cancelled my contract

In the spotlight

Retirees can now access their pension cash more easily – so what are they doing with it? - and what should they be doing if they want to make it last?

US Money Baby Boomers retirement Social security
What pensioners doing with their cash? And what should they be doing? Photograph: Brian Harris/Rex

In pictures

Lakeside living

Kinlochard, near Stirling
A picturesque property in Kinlochard, near Stirling. Photograph: Strutt & Parker

Money deals


Get a free wireless charger when you pre-order the Samsung Galaxy S6 32GB on EE. You’ll also get 5GB of data and unlimited minutes and texts for £41.99 a month and a £29.99 upfront payment.

Or, if you don’t want to wait for your new phone, get a free HTC One M9 now on O2 and pay £32.50 a month for 1GB of data and unlimited minutes and texts.

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