HIGHLIGHTS FROM The Observer

  • Starling bank refused a £10,000 scam refund for my grieving, ill husband
  • Church of England accused of ‘acting like a loan shark’ over vicar’s widow falling £313,000 in debt
  • Masters of spin – how slot machine operators are taking over UK high streets
  • In the grip of slot machine addiction: ‘I’d keep loading £20s in. I could be in a daze’
  • ‘My mum was horrified’: how Biba’s store changed my teenage years