Hello and welcome to this week’s Money Talks – a roundup of the week’s biggest stories and some things you may have missed.
Money news
Unpaid internships damage long-term graduate pay prospects
London’s Walkie Talkie building sold for record-breaking £1.3bn
FTSE 100 chiefs earn 160 times the average wage, study reveals
A million women £32 a week worse off thanks to pension age changes
House prices stabilise as number of homes on the market falls
Feature
Graduate anger mounts over ‘nightmare’ Student Loans Company
In pictures
A six-bedroom Venetian apartment
In the spotlight
In Corby, the debt capital of Britain, charities and council workers face the daily consequences of the rising spiral of borrowing sweeping across the UK. Katie Allen reports
Consumer champions
I offered to pay to reserve an aisle seat … but Thomson still says ‘no’
More Than sent me contradictory letters – and said I was six years old
Why has Flybe put its cheap student luggage deal on hold?
Dyson does well – but beware those taking its name in vain
First Choice compensation for holiday horror was the last thing on its mind
Money deals
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