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Old Style Daily Wednesday 22 April 2026
There's a baby pink sky here, makes a nice change.
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"Santander £100 Amazon voucher without switching" crashing
Anyone tried this "Santander £100 Amazon voucher without switching" as shown on MSE webpage under switching? I have tried twice now applying for the Everyday account, following the correct link but right at the end when I click submit, I get an error reporting "Page Not Found". Very annoying...... Anyone else, got the same…
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Premier Park v Ms. Kay
Hi. Time to start my own thread on this; just to clarify, I'm not Ms. Kay, just helping her fighting this ticket. Ticket is from 12/24, N1 issued 12/25, which is when she phoned me. AoS filed on MCOL 12/25. Defense filed on MCOL, 01/26. MCOL confirms receipt 28.01, and copy sent to claimant, who must advise court on how…
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As my late siblings executor, is probate required to distribute his share of estate?
Hello I would appreciate your advice on the following please. My late brother appointed me as the executor in his will, he was resident in the US and had no assets there according to his children but he is one of the beneficiaries of my late mother's estate in the UK. I am nearing the final stages of distributing the…
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B&M Retail
Does anyone here work for B&M Retail? My daughter has been a supervisor now for approximately 3 months. She found out today that her rate of pay has been revised and is now £12.89 per hour which is only 18 pence higher than the minimum wage of £12.71 The supervisor rate used to be 30 pence above the minimum wage but now it…
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Help To Buy ISA Qualification
I have a HTB ISA which I am unsure if I can use in my current situation. My partner already has a Mortgage on a house that I am joining into. As she already has the mortgage, to add me on I am being added to the deeds and we are remortgaging to add me to the mortgage. Am I able to claim the HTB bonus in this situation or…
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Car insurance
We are looking to part-exchange later on this week and I wante'd to evaluate the cost of the vehicle change on my car insurance. I thought it was just a matter of changing the vehicle details and paying admin fees, but to my surprise it is not. They asked me if there are any modifications on the new car and I dutifully…
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FSCS protection for cash ISA
I’m not sure how to word this question but here goes… If the bank you held your Cash ISA in was to fail and you were compensated by the FSCS for the full amount of money, would you still have the ISA tax free amount you started with or would you have to begin again building that up. For instance if you had 100k in your ISA…
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Can you switch one Utility within the 14 day cooling off period?
I've always used dual fuel tariffs & have never thought of splitting them up with different companies so I was just wondering if you sign up to a dual fuel tariff could you then switch to a different supplier for gas within the 14 day cooling off period penalty free? Or would that invalidate the electric tariff deal they…
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BT/EE
I'm a little confused. I was switched to EE from BT last time my contract was up. But I continually see people on here talking about renewing their bb with BT. So what is the score, is BT for business or not. Or are all these people businesses? on here
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Switching
My mobile network is currently Lebara. I have seen better deals with Lebara but I am unsure if I can 'switch' to a new deal and keep my phone number. Am I right in saying that I would have to switch and port my current phone number to another provider, to then enable me to switch back to Lebara, again porting my number? I…
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Land Registry questions
Hi everyone The Land Registry is here on our Forum to help answer its customers' questions. If you have a question pop it on here and it will do its best to help. Related on MSE: 50+ House Buying Tips Free First Time Buyers' Mortgage Booklet 2018 Remortgage Guide 2018 Ultimate Mortgage Calculator
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Executor-dative scotland
I have completed a template to petition the court for executor-dative my mum passed away with no will and estate is above £36k.any advice on how I have completed the template
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BT Broadband Warning: Incompetent and Contemptuous
A warning for anyone considering BT Broadband: We have had a contract with BT Business for many years for our home telephone and broadband. In September 2025 I applied to switch to “full fibre” broadband, which I was told was available for my property. 6 months later and after about 4 visits from different engineers, and 2…
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Panasonic Breadmakers SD206 and SD251to SD257 Drive Belt fix
These machines keep going and going, but eventually, the profiled drive belt on these machines starts to slip on the motor drive pulley. It is impossible to buy a replacement SD026 drive belt - ASD158-108-W (even second-hand); or an SD251 belt - ADF01R140 (except at a ridiculous price). First of all remove the bottom of…
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Unpowered Pressure Washers...?
There are many ads for these devices - many simply boxes that go between the tap and nozzle - claiming to be at least as powerful as a conventional mains powered pressure washer - but how do they work ? Do they actually increase the flow rate or just the pressure via reduced nozzle size ? how - surely you are limited by…
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Revolut pre paid card
Hi I have a Revolut pre paid card for travel. Just heard this is changing to bank account. I don't want another bank account does anybody know if these is any option to keep this pre paid card or do I need to close account. The MSE Website is still showing the option for this as a pre paid card
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Mortgage prices
So I looked at upsizing in February but monthly rates have gone up by £60. Noticed a lack of 3 bed houses market on market. The lack of supply of houses has seen similar 3 beds £20k over usual asking price. I’m still keen to move but find the £60 tight margins could be a days shipping at Asda. Me and my partner also…
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Solar use vs export
This discussion was created from comments split from: New Price Cap 1 April 2026 Octopus Fixed.
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Voyage Prive
Not sure if this is a cry for help or just a warning! We have a trip to Thailand Package holiday Booked with Voyage Prive, flights with Emirates via Dubai, Due to leave 07th April. I have been contacting this company for three weeks trying to get them to agree to change the flights or cancel the holiday and refund.I have…
