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Primark will launch its click and collect service in 25 stores across North West England, Yorkshire and North Wales by the end of the year.

They include Manchester, Liverpool (pictured), Sheffield, Blackburn, Carlisle, Sheffield and Wrexham.

The trial is limited to toys, kids’ clothing and nursery ranges. Primark has refused to join rivals selling online, arguing its low prices make it uneconomical.

Restaurant chain Frankie & Benny’s is launching an “adults eat free” deal for certain dishes during the kids’ half-term holidays.

You need a QR code via its website and the offer is valid with a paid-for children’s set menu.

Unused electrical gadgets worth around £5.6billion are being hoarded in homes across the country.

Some 20.7 million working electricals are going to waste and 18.6 million broken ones are clogging up cupboards instead of being recycled or sold, e-waste compliance group Repic believes.

Recycle Your Electricals, a campaign run by Material Focus, found 155,000 tons of e-waste is thrown away in the UK each year.

The average household could raise about £200 by selling old devices, it said.

Scott Butler from Material Focus said: “Anything with a plug, battery or cable should always be recycled as a minimum.”

People cannot afford to wait for vital protections against online scamming, campaigners warn.

Ten organisations – including MoneySavingExpert, UK Finance and Which? – have joined forces to write to Prime Minister Liz Truss pressing for quick, effective action.

They urge the Government to ensure fraud is tackled through the Online Safety Bill so people are protected from an “unrelenting scale” of financial and emotional harm.