Your top stories on Monday: Left-wing vote surge blocks far right in France; domestic violence sentencing changes adopted
Sitting on a train from Düsseldorf to Munich on Sunday afternoon, I was idly counting up the number of hours I have spent on intercity trains over– I reckoned this journey was going to take me through the 60-hour mark – when I started to get messages about Toni Kroos, writes Ken Early. Not long ago Pricewatch was sent a neat illustration, in the unlikely shape of a Caesar salad, which highlighted how supermarket pricing works and how sometimes it doesn’t work in our favour.Looser mortgage lending rules linked to Irish house price surge, says MyHome:By now, it’s likely that the novelty of not having to make school lunches has long since worn off.