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DPD could not find me, twice!
I live in a single-occupancy terrace house, in an area that was built at least one hundred years ago. I have a large house number plaque by my front door, as do my neighbours on either side and opposite. Our street name features on every map I can find online. Enter my address & postcode, and there it is. Some maps even…
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Cash ISAs: The Best Currently Available List
Cash ISAs: The Best Currently Available List **Please note: The list of ISAs I have compiled below is continually updated. New ISAs are added as they launch and withdrawn ISAs will be removed from the list. ** The current Cash ISA limit is £20,000 for the 2026/27 tax year. **As with any financial product, before opening an…
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Battery only install
For now going for the cheaper option, as solar is out of our price range. Average usage is around 6kWh a day peak time. I know payback is not as good as solar (not that I'm worried about that), but needs must & will make a nice saving a month on bill, charging overnight on IOG, which we are on with 2 EV's & not wanting…
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Land missing from title-future lending problems?
We are buying a property, using a bridging loan, as its being sold under auction conditions. The property has two separate title deeds and the current owners have lived there since the 50’s. They bought the second title in the 70’s (im mentioning this as its before it all went digital) which is ajoining and used as a…
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First Direct Perks
Seems like a new reward scheme incoming?
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£2 Savers Club 2026
Welcome everyone to the £2 savers club for 2026. As always, the aim is to collect every £2 coin you can lay your hands on! It is entirely up to you whether you want to: A) Save for a particular reason e.g. to pay the car insurance, to pay for a family holiday or to buy birthday presents throughout the year, B)Save until…
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Escape to the country & living off savings
Copied over from my old diary Hello again from Yorkshire 😁 The move from the south coast went well but it has been hectic since I got here. Spending has been budgeted for van hire £250 diesel £90 train fare for DS to get home £30 new boiler £3600 living room light £32 kettle & toaster £40 New bath towels (sale) £6 Living…
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Teetering on the brink
Where to start! My life has not been without challenges and I have had times where I’ve had a lot of debt, and times where I have had none. I always felt proud to say I have never missed a payment and always managed to get out of a sticky situation myself no matter what. But this time, I am not convinced I will find a way,…
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Open new Santander Edge and Current accounts?
Hi, my 6% on the Edge saver accounts expired today so I closed them via chatbot. I noticed that if you open new current accounts you also get Amazon vouchers. However, you need to use the current accounts for purchases to qualify for the voucher, which I imagine would trigger the monthly maintenance fee, wouldn't it. Is it…
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Is MBNA currently a fee free mule / money transfer card for new customers?
Long time stoozer coming out of retirement to have another go, as I have a hungry offset mortgage that needs a few £1,000s! I noticed on a few post here that the MBNA credit card was recommended as a 'mule card'. Is it currently the case that a new customer, could expect to get Fee Free money transfers? Or are Fee Free…
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ProcessOn Multi-person Collaboration Permission Settings and Version Management
When editing flowcharts collaboratively with multiple people in ProcessOn, how do you set different permission levels for team members (Read-only / Editable / Administrator)? Does it support a version history rollback feature?
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AXA home emergency & 0800 repair,complaint.
Hello,has anyone else had this happen to them? My elderly parents boiler stopped working on Easter Sunday,pressure had gone to zero,and it was dripping from the prv outside,so I rang Axa home emergency,which they have through Hastings insurance. I explained what the problem was,they said an engineer would be in touch…
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Splitting moving costs
I moved in with my boyfriend three years ago. I have my own room(menopause } but none of the furniture or household bits are mine. I still have a house elsewhere. My boyfriend has sold up and we are going into rental. He wants me to pay 50% of the moving costs £1000 my share. He refuses to get a lower quote or move…
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Bank wanting zero balance on reward credit card
Hi, I'm in the middle of a mortgage application and the bank is currently holding it up because they want a zero/nil balance on two credit cards I use for my daily spending and then pay off each month. The cards are a paid (£300 annual) BA Amex Premium Plus (and a back up Barclaycard Avios Mastercard for where Amex isn't…
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Bed and ISA with Bonds
Hello Investors, I have a question, I'm used to Bed and ISA for transferring shares in funds and shares in individual companies from General Accounts to an ISA. Is it as simple with Bonds? I've avoided Bonds until now, but something over over on ii has caught my eye. I'm thinking of investing about £5,000 in some bonds.…
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MSE News: Asda launches first-ever loyalty scheme offering discounts on groceries
Asda has rolled out its 'Asda Rewards' loyalty scheme nationwide after trialling it in a small number of stores in England. The move means shoppers across the UK can now earn money-off vouchers to use towards their shopping at the supermarket chain. Read the full story: 'Asda launches first-ever loyalty scheme offering…
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Smarty SIM - on '3' - very poor download speeds.
Trying to set up a temporary 4G router for daughter as she stays in a relative's house for an undetermined period. Got a cheap BT mini-Halo 4G router, and she bought a data-loaded SIM from Smarty. Download speeds were in the order of 2.5Mbps, which was useless for pretty much everything. I assumed it was an issue with the…
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UK Garden/Plants advice website/group ?
Anyone recommend a really good website/forum etc for garden/plant advice and inspiration I've tried a few and most dont have any designers or experienced gardeners/experts to answer any of my questions Thanks
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Old Style Weight Loss Challenge - 2nd Quarter 2026
Hi All Welcome to the 2nd quarter Old Style Weight Loss thread for 2026. Please feel free to start posting your weight loss goals for the next challenge which will run from the 1st April until the 30th June. You do not have to submit a loss or gain for the first week as it's our starting week, you can post your first loss…
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Expensive car tax refund denial by DVLA
hi, new here but wanted to share my news. This morning I received a new V5 for my electric vehicle that I bought in January, I paid £605 vehicle tax, due to the recent budget, it has been reduced to £200 for vehicles below £50k from 1 April 26. DVLA are not issuing automatic refunds for what you have already purchased, so…
