Want to spend less? Carry cash!

HOW easily the pounds leave the bank account through the medium of a bank card, especially in the days of tap-andgo technology. Tap! £3.45 on an iced mocha. Tap! £20 on a vase. Tap! £35 on a pair of shoes.

It feels like free money. So I was interested to learn millions of people are planning to shop with cash to save money.

This is the only budgeting strategy I’ve found to work. Take out enough for the week and you are much more careful with it.

If I attempt to spend on anything frivolous with cash I sense Her Majesty frowning up at me from the banknote. Those feeling the pinch should try it.

Guilty Ghislaine is heading out of her high-security, ratinfested New york prison for a lowsecurity jail in Florida. Although porridge is porridge, there at least the sun will shine and the food should be free of maggots. And given her crimes involved a lot of very powerful men who have never been named, i can’t help but wonder whether strings were pulled to ensure that Maxwell sees out the rest of her sentence in relative comfort.