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Sam Thewlis
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Changing the date your car insurance starts could save you 50%
There are any number of tips and tricks to reducing your car insurance, including selecting the most insurer-friendly job title, and including more experienced drivers on your policy. However, one variable you’ve probably never considered when getting an insurance quotation is thestart date of the policy- and according to Which!!!, that alone can save you…
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Co-op charge almost ten times as much for identical painkillers
Good old Co-Operative Food. You know, the one founded on ethical principles? Well, it seems they are as ready to swindle consumers as any less ethical supermarket, by making false claims on their products, and then attempting to charge almost ten times as much for the hyped-up product. If you have a headache, you might…
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Do you have a dangerous Russell Hobbs iron?
Ironing is never fun, but it's rarely dangerous, yet now household thrill seekers can take their life in their hands (almost) by using a Russell Hobbs iron to make their clothes crease-free. Thousands of Russell Hobbs irons have now been recalled after reports that some burst into flames and injured customers. Of course, you would…
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DEATHWATCH: cash machines that charge you to get your own money out
The youth of today won’t remember what it was like back when you had to use your own bank’s cashpoint* to get your money out. If you were a Lloyds’ customer, heaven help you if you wanted to use an HSBC cash machine. Or at least, you’d be charged somewhere between £1.50 and £3 for…
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Water companies the latest to be outed for sending bogus debt collection letters
It seems no-one is safe from scam debt collection agencies. Hot on the heels of banks, energy companies and payday lenders, the latest industry group to admit inventing ominous debt chasers is the water companies, with more than half the UK's water suppliers copping to the practice.. Twelve of the UK's largest water suppliers told…
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Save money- don't buy a TV licence
We all like saving money, and one way to do that is to go through direct debits and standing orders and see whether there are any old or outdated ones that could be cancelled. One bill that many people wish they could cancel is the TV licence fee- a £145.50 annual BBC 'tax' on watching…
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Is eBay pricing itself out of the market?
When eBay first burst into our lives in the late 90s, we all thought it was the answer to our clutter prayers. The premise was simple- now you could get rid of tat you didn't want anymore and someone would actually pay you for it. It was also a great way to declutter, provided you…
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Greggs offering you less for more. Smaller steak bakes with a bigger price tag.
A steak bake, yesterday Good old Greggs. Champion of the people, foodstuff of the many, self-confessed favourite baker of Britain’s, Greggs’ customers are paramount to their success. Their aim in business is to develop “product ranges to meet changing customer tastes, whilst retaining the quality, value and service that Greggs is known for.” How nice.…
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HMRC to tax your Quidco cashback?
Everyone knows the insurance industry is the worst kind of old boys club. Well, perhaps not the worst kind. Still, the fact that financial advisers can be sunning themselves on a cruise paid for on the back of advice given 20 years ago is why the whole financial services regime is currently undergoing a ‘reform’…
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Want cheaper Car Insurance? If you can’t change your gender can you change your job?
We all know that car insurance is stupidly expensive, and could wax lyrical at the additional cost added to all our premiums by the ambulance-chasers and whiplash-claimers- after all, you don’t see the insurance companies struggling to make ends meet now do you? With the EU gender directive coming into force on 21 December, even…