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Mobile Coverage Maps Are Lying About City Centres
Across the UK, mobile coverage maps (including the MSE checker using Ofcom data) often show excellent coverage in city centres. Phones back this up by displaying strong 4G/5G signal — so everything appears fine. The real issue is congestion. In busy areas, mobile data can become effectively unusable even though the signal…
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Skipton Members Regular Saver - maturity experience
My Members Regular Saver (RS) has just matured and after seeing/commenting on previous threads about the experience with maturing Nationwide Flex Regular savers, I thought I'd share my experience. The account matured on Jan 26th. I already had an easy saver account (strategically opened some time ago anticipating the next…
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Change of tax code due to savings interest
The interest I earned on a bond I had was over a 2 yr period, tax yrs 22/23, 24/25. HMRC took that interest to be for tax yr24/25 and have predicted that this amount will be earned again during tax yr25/26. This has triggered a change in my tax code. I have spoken to them today to point this out and to inform them that the…
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Manchester Airport Apcoa
Hello everybody I'm back again after you helped me successfully beat the last charge I got. This is a weird one. I dropped off at Manchester Airport and was there for 3 minutes. You have 24 hours to pay and I forgot until 47 hours later. I attempted to pay and payment of £5 went through and i received confirmation email.…
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Gladstones 2 Claim forms in 2 months. First was DISCONTINUED & 2nd is just crazy and unfair charges!
Hi, hope you are well.I'm absolutely stressed and stuck, overwhelmed with forum information about fighting unfair tickets. I'm such a slower reader/English is my second language. But let's do this, I need help. 1. I've been receiving/chesed since Jan/2024 by Horizon parking for "Exceeding maximum stay period " at…
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Council Housing Advise Needed Please
Hi All, Long story short, my sister, with her 4 boys (6, 10, 10 & 17), currently lives in London in a council-subsidised rental property. She moved there from Northampton 2 years ago via the home swapper. Unfortunately, she was told a few lies regarding the costs there, apparently from the person she swapped with, so the…
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The Old Regular Savers Discussion Thread 28/12/24-29/1/26
THIS THREAD HAS BEEN REPLACED. FOR THE NEW VERSION PLEASE USE The Top Regular Savers Discussion Thread Welcome to this thread The main purposes of this thread are two-fold: * To provide a list of the top regular savers currently on offer * To provide a place for all forum users to discuss regular saver accounts and ask any…
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Is a little will admin needed?
My sister and I have been chatting about our dads will and we wondered if it's worth suggesting that he do a little admin on it? He's not ill or anything like that, but him and our mum wrote their wills at least 15 years ago and our mum passed away in 2018, so things have changed, his circumstances are as follows. He owns…
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I feel that a member of my team is about to be poached by my own team
For context I work for a local authority in England. I work within a team and my role is very specific, and I have two assistant members of staff to help with my growing workload. It started out as one and then, as the team grew, it was expanded to two. I had a permanent member of staff who went on a new role on a…
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Crocs Brown Classic Fuzz Scuff Slippers Was £50, now £22
https://www.next.co.uk/style/su731300/h39105 all sizes 3-7 at time of posting
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Lots of bargains on Home items in the George at Asda Sale
https://direct.asda.com/george/sale-offers/home-electricals/D55M18G1C1,default,sc.html?displayAs=George&pmid=home-electricals-sale
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Huawei GT3 Pro watch query
Hi can anyone help please? I have this watch and a Motorola G86 android phone. Answering a call on my watch was fine until the phone updated from android 15 to 16. Now I can make a call from the watch using my contacts on the watch, but answering a call has an issue whereby the watch notifies me of an incoming call but…
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MSE News: WASPI compensation rejected again following fresh Government review
Women who argue they were not fairly notified about a rise in the State Pension age will NOT be paid compensation, the Government has announced today (Thursday 29 January) following a fresh review. Insisting that the majority of affected women knew about the change, ministers said a compensation scheme "would not be the…
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Up to 25% off valentines Lego @ Argos
https://www.argos.co.uk/list/save-on-selected-lego-this-valentines/
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Up to 25% Off Lego for her at Argos
https://www.argos.co.uk/list/save-on-selected-lego-sets-for-her/?
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ii new price plan
I've had the email from ii about the new price plan i am currently on the £11.99 fee which will increase to £14.99 I have a joint trading account with my wife with 60k worth of shares nothing else and buy or sell on average once a month. I am wondering if it would be more beneficial to move to the core plan at £5.99 ?
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Sky Protect Home Insurance. Is it worth it?
My home insurance is due for renewal quite soon and Sky Protect is coming up well ahead of anyone else based on price.Having looked online I got an understanding of the extra gadgets it provides but my question is would I jeopardise a potential claim if I were not to use those gadgets or to use them not how Sky would…
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Tax Return for deceased - Missing Bank Interest information
Hi, HMRC have requested that we complete a tax return for the tax year 2024-2025. There was substantial income from savings interest that needs to be reported but the problem is we dont have the required information. We originally had online access to the accounts via power of attorney but that access was removed by the…
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Smart Parking, DCB Legal, LoC 2025
Hello, Just need a little guidance over what to do and what my first step should be. I am getting confused on land owners and sar... I received a letter from Debt Recovery Plus to say that I owe £170 or will be taken to court. LUCKILY, I read part 4 of the newbies post and haven't called them like I was initially intending…
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Can I still get fluorescent tubes as I have read are now banned
Hi folks, Hope you are all good. I do need to replace a1500 mm fluorescent tube as flickering at times in Kitchen, might well be the starter (but that seems very difficult to remove) Anyway looking online tonight, it seems the tubes are now banned, I do have a Cool White one in the house unused, but we didn't like it as…
