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Letter of Claim from DCB Legal
Hi, I have today received a LOC from DCB legal for £170. This is for a parking charge of “overstayed free time” that happened in Nov 2023. It states that payment was due within 28 days of the PC being issued but remains outstanding - I never received the PCN so this is a complete surprise to me. I’m assuming the PCN went…
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Parkingeye Court Defence Help
Hello all, I’ve been through the newbies sticky and followed all the instructions up to there I’m just looking for help with my paragraph 3 for my Parkingeye defence. I couldn’t find any similar cases on here. I received a pcn from parkingeye on the 27/8/2025 for parking at a tenpin location which I did not realise was a…
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DVLA medical
Hi, my son has a medical condition and has to renew his driving licence every 2 years. He has been trying to get his licence back since February and received a letter from DVLA saying that they have had no reply from his surgeon about his ability to drive. We have tried to contact the DVLA because his surgeon said he…
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Euro Car Parks PCN overstayed of 12 min total
Hi I got a PCN for staying 1h12min in the carpark. I paid for 1 hour stay. I appealed with Euro Car Park on the grounds that I was within 15 min before and after., but tey obvioulsy said they reject my appeal. I wonder now if I should bother with Popla or just wait for the court case to come through... What is your recent…
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Aegon takeover
For info https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/standard-life-strikes-2bn-deal-072550360.html
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Skipton Mortgage a little advice needed
Hello Everyone, I'd much appreciate for an advise here. I'm selling property and buying another. Current mortgage is with Skipton and new house we are buying is £350k. Since our affordability would not be enough therefore we are doing JBSB with my sister on the mortgage. Lender is Skipton too. The current timeline is as…
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Possible purchase of garage should I add to deeds
In looking at buying a garage very close, within view of my property. I was trying to work out how much it will be including any insurance etc. My insurer has started it could be included in my home insurance if I added it to my deeds. My home is mortgaged (15 years remaining) and I'm looking at possibly buying the garage…
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Assent help (is ID3 needed)
Firstly I am the will executor and have been granted probate. Background: My grandmother passed away and left my mum as sole beneficiary of the house. However according to the property title register my late Grandfather is also still listed as a registered owner. I am going to start the assent process to register the…
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Trading 212--Change Bank Details
I want to change the Bank that I withdraw cash to from my ISA with 212 but I can't seem to find how to do it on the app—-could someone please point me in the right direction. Thanks
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Life Insurance after Mortgage Paid
Hi I have been able to pay my mortgage off early, due to some inheritance (15 years early). Currently there is a life insurance with critical illness running, that decreases which was attached to the mortgage. I am thinking of swapping this to a life insurance policy, as I have no other debts, no partner and in several…
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Package holiday cancellation - claiming back cancellation fees
Hi all. My wife and I were due to go to Greece at the end of June for our holiday but she has spent the last week in hospital with sepsis (she's on the mend now) We booked the holiday last year through Jet2Holidays. Their cancellation fees are 30% of holiday cost if cancelled within 69-57 days of holiday departure date. We…
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Starting the journey...the road is currently bumpy.
My debt has always been there, nothing major - the odd holiday on 0% which is dutifully paid off then rinse and repeat. Then things changed, 5 years ago I lost my mum to Cancer - she loved life and was taken too young. From this my attitude changed, holidays booked, things bought, paying for friends - I wanted to live in…
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22 Foxhole East
I just made my first mortgage overpayment. We bought a 5 bed Victorian terraced house in the East Midlands in April 16 that has been badly neglected. It needs everything doing, it has been let out on a room by room basis and used as a rental machine. Now it is our family house (4 kids = one bedroom each!!). So far I have…
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Halifax login
Hi. Just wondering if anyone else has noticed when logging into Halifax it now states you don't need a password? Seems a bit strange to lower the security and also not inform me about the change. Anyone else has this?
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Body work repairs
Hi I recently cleaned my car and I was shocked at so many scratches and rust. The two main ones were caused by other drivers on two occasions. Car is 14 years old. Does anyone know roughly what a body shop/garage would charge to repair these? I’ve done home/DIY body repairs previously but I no longer have the open space…
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MCOL Claim form received
We have received a claim for a 2year old parking charge. We did not receive any initial ticket or reminder, only multiple debt collector invoices. There has been no admission of who was driving or any correspondance from our side. The court documents are in my wifes name (registered keeper) We have done the acnowledgement…
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Help with Defence for Parking Fine - Bay Sentry Solutions / dcb legal please
Hi Last November I made an emergency stop because of a medical condition on what I thought was disused land. In my haste to park and run across the road to a cafe facilities I did not see that I had parked in a No Stopping Zone. I had literally driven into the entrance and spun round facing back out towards the main road.…
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Weekly Flylady Thread 13th April 2026
Thank you, Valli, for last week's thread. What is FLYLADY? Well, it's our version of the US flylady idea - but we work on the principle that housework is not fun, it's boring, can be time-consuming, is often thankless but, unfortunately, necessary. It's here on Old Style to provide the support we all need and to make the…
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Haggling with EE with multiple networks in the area
Has anyone had any luck when haggling with EE? Where I live, there are three fibre network providers: OpenReach, CityFibre, and County Broadband. After a lot of faff, Openreach finally managed to thread the fibre to my house. Now I'm more than happy with EE, but has anyone managed to haggle with EE when in the CityFibre…
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Scottish Power RTS replaced with Smart Metre
I have had my RTS metre replaced with a smart metre by Scottish Power, they didn't tell me that I would need to install a timer for my heating and hot water as the water is heating 24/7 and my storage heater is on for the full night rate - 11pm to 7-30am in winter or 12pm to 8.30am in summer, because I didn't find out…
