Shopping

James Bond, fish and chips, a full English breakfast and the Loch Ness Monster are all featured on a new collection of 10p coins, which are available from today.

Toys R Us has fallen into administration. Here are need-to-knows for customers on gift cards, outstanding online orders, return rights and the retailer's 'Take Time to Pay' layaway scheme.

Electricals retailer Maplin has collapsed into administration. Its 217 shops across the UK and Ireland will stay open and continue to trade for the time being, though – here's what we know so far about how gift cards, online orders and your return rights are affected.

If you've still got any old £10 notes, beware – you only have until Thursday 1 March to spend them before they're officially withdrawn by the Bank of England. Here's what's happening and what you can do if you miss the deadline. Following the launch of the new polymer tenner in September, the older £10 notes featuring Charles Darwin have been gradually phased out and will cease to be legal tender in a few days' time. It's believed that more than a quarter of the old £10 notes, worth a staggering £2.2 billion, remain in circulation - so if you've any old tenners, the last day to use them is Thursday 1 March. After this date, retailers will no longer accept them. North of the border, older Scottish £5 and £10 notes will also stop being accepted on 1 March, but there are no changes planned for Northern Irish banknotes.

The price of first and second-class stamps will increase by 2p at the end of March, Royal Mail has announced.

Tesco has apologised to customers after taking up to three months to process thousands of payments made in 300 of its Express stores - leaving shoppers facing a bills shock and in some cases going overdrawn.

Waitrose will replace its 'pick your own' offer with a new scheme to send customers vouchers and offers through the post.

Asda has become the latest supermarket to announce it's scrapping 5p plastic bags - and it's making changes to its cafes to reduce the use of plastic there too.

Waitrose is set to end the 'pick your own offers' part of its loyalty scheme, after apparently concluding that customers found it too "confusing".

A savvy shopper has bagged £41 of shopping for 67p mainly by 'wombling' for Asda receipts others have thrown away.