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Our shopping habits are constantly changing when it comes to how we get our groceries. Supermarkets are offering more online shopping and home deliveries, stores are increasing the use of self check-outs/scan and go and there isn't even an Eastenders omnibus window on Sunday afternoons to guarantee a quiet shopping window…
Entertainment! Entertainment everywhere! We're truly living in the miracle age of consuming content. From our telly faves, blockbuster movies and entire series available to stream on demand. But our smaller screens are also fighting for our attention, with constant pings and notifications from friends and from around the…
For some meal deal fans, it's the best time of the year! The usual offerings are being replaced with this year's selection of creative Christmas alternatives. Christmas dinner sandwiches, pulled pork wraps, brie and cranberry baguettes and sides of pigs in blankets in pastry. There's weird combinations and old favourites…
Hi all, bit of a tricky situation and could do with some advice from anyone who's been through similar. I've got a property that I moved out of a couple years back and my lender (Halifax) has been giving me consent to let for 12 months at a time. Been renewing it fine, currently good until April next year and they've been…
My 0% balance transfer rate is coming to an end with Barclaycard. I've just done a quick check on here to see if anyone else might give me a 0% balance transfer card for me to transfer my outstanding Barclaycard balance to, and the MSE eligibility checker has come up with nothing. Meanwhile, I keep getting letters from…
So as titles say I got a CCJ awarded against me was going through a divorce ex wife wasn’t paying anything towards mortgage and basically had to pay it on my own which meant at the time had to pick between credit card debt or house. So don’t know how but the payment set out in the CCJ was to pay £20 a month which I have…
Hi all I am buying a brand new car from a dealership if a well known, huge European Car Brand. Basically, I was going to buy a car year old for over £50K. The dealer man said to me “You can have this brand spanking new one for the same price if you take out the finance”. I said “I don’t want finance. I want to pay cash”.…
Keeping it brief, Parent has passed away suddenly. The will leaves the property to the children with the provision for the parents partner to remain living there for as long as they like. Property consists of 2 floors which are each independent flats. Ground floor flat is rented out to a tenant (rent is paid directly from…
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Tomato Energy has gone under. If you're one of its 15,000 household customers, your supply won't be affected and any credit balance you had with the firm will be protected – but you should take meter readings now. Here's what you need to know.
NS&I has increased the interest rates you can get on all of its fixed-term 'British Savings Bonds'. Its new deals are strong across the board, especially if you're looking to save with a well-known name – though you can earn a bit more from the top-paying accounts elsewhere.
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