Londoners spend less than the rest of the UK

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What to read right now…

The government wants to automatically combine your small pension pots in future. A small pension pot here is defined as sums under £1,000, and it should in theory save you money.

If you’re already thinking about combining your small pension pots, here are a few things to bear in mind.

On a different note, over a million people switched bank accounts using the Current Account Switch Service in the last 12 months – and most have gone to Nationwide or Lloyds Bank.

This makes a good time to resurface my reviews for Nationwide’s current account and the Club Lloyds account from Lloyds Bank – and a look at whether bank switching is worth it.

Finally, Londoners might have higher incomes but they’re spending less than the rest of the UK because, well, after housing costs there’s not much left.

The deal that’s a steal…

It’s the bank holiday so of course there are lots of sales.

For appliances, AO.com* is currently selling the Ninja Foodi 8-in-1 PossibleCooker* for £99 instead of the usual £149.

It’s an 8-litre family sized multi-cooker, and does everything from searing to slow cooking.

I’m a big fan of multi-cookers because you can use them for so many different things.

But the main reason I like them is that you can set timers and delay cooking. It means I can put the ingredients in, set the timer and then come back to a fully cooked meal.