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Hi Everyone. I received a ‘Letter of claim’ from DCB Legal on the 8th September, letter dated 28th August, acting on behalf of ParkingEye Ltd T/A Car Parking Partnership for a parking charge issued on the 21st January 2021. The parking charge is for the hospital I work at and I pay an extortionate amount of money for the…

Hi, my father recently passed away. He was a keen photographer and has >6000 photos held on an Mac Desktop. As part of clearing his belongings I would like to transfer the photos to view on a laptop PC. So far I have tried to connect an external hard drive to download photos (this does not work as the drive is formatted…

Welcome to this group, old and new members of making our pennies work harder in 2026. This is to challenge yourself of collecting what would be nothing to others yet for us they have a lot of important work to do. Even collecting dropped change off the floor counts towards Tilly Tidying. Does your bank offer to round-up…

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I have completed 9 entries past the limit. The terms and conditions say that entries over 150 will not be counted. Is it possible that the “you have reached your maximum entries” has been removed?

I’m totally at a loss about energy suppliers and usage. I moved into my new home three years ago and I’ve never changed my supplier as I just don’t understand it, no matter how much I read. Could anyone help please? Current supplier - Scottish Power Tariff - Standard Online with smart meters Payment - £98.23 direct debit a…

Hi, This is a feedback thread on car breakdown provider: Rescuemycar Please share your experience with other MoneySavers. Click reply to take part: * Have you experienced problems? * How quick did they help? * Happy with the overall service? The feedback comes as part of the Cheap Breakdown Cover guide. Thank you, MSE Tony

I have received a CNBC claim issued 11 September 2026. Claimant is ParkingEye and DCB Legal (our favourite) are acting. I intend to defend the whole claim and will complete the AOS on/after day 5. The alleged event was 26/05/2024 (!!!!) at Cambridge Retail Park. ParkingEye's PCN recorded ANPR entry/exit totalling 4h24m…

I been in contact with Aviva believing I could simply start withdrawing a regular monthly sum from my pension but was told this 'old style' pension doesnt allow this.i asked if I could move it to something within Aviva that WOULD allow regular withdrawals and was told again NO but I could try transferring to other…

Hi everyone, I’ve been reading through lots of threads here regarding APCOA and Manchester Airport drop-off zone PCNs, where the standard advice is to appeal strictly as the registered keeper using the "non-relevant land / airport byelaws / no PoFA 2012 liability" template. I have a situation involving one of the…

Hi All, need some advice about drop off pcn at gatwick from times24 parking. incident date 11/8/26, issue date 20/8/26 the keeper has an auto pay setup but some times their system does not work properly and the can not take the payment but they send an email informing that auto pay failed and need to pay manually. it…

Because of the rise in electricity i am toying with the idea of buying a small (counter top) oven or air fryer I have a normal size fan oven and smaller "normal" oven that takes ages to heat up. It really annoys me heating the oven just to put a sngle salmon portion in or handful of chips etc. Has anyone done this and has…

Hi All My brain is fried. Can anyone point me in the right direction to save or invest 40k for 6 months only, without having to open lots of accounts all over the place etc. Thanks.

Hi everyone, I've received an email yesterday from Gladstones reminding me of a PCN from Parkit Management from 2024. The Pre-action Protocol Reply was done in Oct 2024. This isn't my first rodeo with PCNs but as it's been so long since I sorted one (unfortunately we caved in and paid the most recent one due to the risk of…

My sister recently passed. We have no idea who the house not contents, insurance was with. Do we just start an empty property insurance until estate is finalised? We are also having to apply for Executors-Dative, then confirmation. Thanx in advance

I am thinking of joining Hometree Plumbing and electrics, what are they like

I am looking to replace my 23 year old Potterton Suprima boiler as parts, according to British Gas, are becoming hard to source. It still works fine at the moment. I am looking to replace it with a Worcester 24Kw Greenstar Ri using a Worcester accredited installer which hopefully should come with a 12 year warranty. I…

Hello everyone, I need an advice what my options are with British gas. We noticed high gas bills when we switched off the heating this spring becuase it was very hot weather. But the bill we received in June 2026 was even higher than for winter months. Obviously we started to investigate and first thought about the boiler…

I have been trying to renew my unlimited membership since August using the partner code provided by Tesco without success. It used to literally be a 2 minute phone call, give them the cose and all sorted. Long standing unlimited member of over 10 years. Now you can't phone them, it literally takes a week for any email…

Am looking to switch away from VM! As I'm not 'FullFibre', I'd be restricted to under 65Mbps, though past experience indicates an actual 30-50 is more likely! (which I did find perfectly adequate) I've started looking at 5G Broadband and coverage checkers suggest only EE and O2 would give me good reception. O2 don't seem…