Posting the answer of Richard as he answered to my personal mail account.
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Dennis - thank you for your reply (re chmod /etc/apt/sources.list). This
worked for the last update - have only had one since. Thank you -
regards
Richard
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I am closing this bug now as it seems not to be a general problem of setting
wrong permissions on that file by default.
** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Invalid
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Update-manager 'E:Opening /etc/apt/sources.list
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/125224
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