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Laura Purkess

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Laura Purkess

@laurapurkess

Award-winning freelance financial journalist • Headline Money Journalist of the Year 2025 • using Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/laurap… 🌻

London, England

muckrack.com/laurapurkess

Joined August 2010

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Laura Purkess
@laurapurkess
May 26
Last week, I revealed the government was taking further action over extra childcare fees for funded hours and reviewing the wider state of the childcare market for @TheSun thesun.co.uk/money/39186660… The government has confirmed this today: gov.uk/government/new…
Nurseries to be investigated for overcharging parents despite government crack down
From thesun.co.uk
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Laura Purkess
@laurapurkess
Mar 21, 2023
Replying to @madison_tayt
this rage is so misdirected
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Laura Purkess
@laurapurkess
Mar 22, 2024
imagine how great it would be if an hour train journey in this country didn’t cost £107
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Laura Purkess
@laurapurkess
Feb 6, 2024
I know this is nothing new, but I just checked my student loan and it's just comically absurd - I've been charged 3x as much interest as I've paid off so far this year; my total loan is almost £10k bigger than when I left university. Completely futile @SF_England
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Laura Purkess
@laurapurkess
May 3, 2023
Replying to @sweetlxfe
weeding in garden done? Shower bottles in cupboard? Sounds like he’s having photos done to sell the place
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Laura Purkess
@laurapurkess
Jan 6, 2023
Replying to @NoContextBrits
Anything from Pret
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Laura Purkess
@laurapurkess
Jan 3, 2023
how did literally everyone get a new journalism job today
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Laura Purkess
@laurapurkess
Mar 21, 2023
Replying to @notauntblazer and @madison_tayt
frustrated, sure, but not angry - I'm not sure what camping out means in this context or how they wasted the server's time, but to most Europeans a $70 tip is a huge tip, because, it's a huge tip. It sounds unlikely they were trying to be insulting or stingy
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Laura Purkess
@laurapurkess
Oct 3, 2022
‘We believe in low tax... we're Conservatives’, Kwarteng says after criticising Labour RE taxes. The UK's tax burden is at a 70-year high - as mentioned several times in his speech - after 12 years of Tory governance. An elephant in the room that surely needed addressing? #CPC22
Laura Purkess
@laurapurkess
Jun 23, 2023
NEW: Mortgage borrowers will be able to switch to interest-only mortgages or temporarily extend the length of their mortgage with 'no questions asked' and 'no impact on their credit score'. EG. someone on a 25-year mortgage will temporarily be able to switch to 40-years
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Laura Purkess
@laurapurkess
Feb 6, 2024
Replying to @danniscotty and @SF_England
I don’t remember any teachers explaining this to me at 17 when they were pushing me to go to uni :/
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Laura Purkess
@laurapurkess
Jul 29, 2021
A week ago today, my wonderful, brave dad passed away after a 10-month battle with cancer. I never imagined I’d lose someone so precious to me at such a young age, but here we are. I love him so much and I’m so proud of him, and I’ll spend my life making him proud of me x
Laura Purkess
@laurapurkess
Mar 10, 2021
Replying to @StuartEdwards
This sounds silly but I’d say don’t get offended if someone seems scared. I was once being followed, probably innocently, down my road at night and I started running and the man behind me chased me to insist he wasn’t interested in me. Didn’t help 😬😂 thanks Stuart 😊
Laura Purkess
@laurapurkess
Apr 29, 2022
Hi 😊🚨Some news (everyone already seems to know)🚨 After 3 wild years, I’m leaving Citywire in a few weeks — I’m having a short break before - I’m so excited to say - joining the Money Mail team @DailyMailUK at the start of July, covering finance for a consumer audience ✨🔍