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Loan gripes soar during the pandemic as families struggle to afford repayments By Amelia Murray For The Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 2 March 2021 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 2 March 2021 Complaints about loans soared last year as families struggled to afford repayments in the pandemic. Guarantor loans, which are typically taken out with … Read more
One is a £77.5 million eight-bedroom luxury mansion in one of London’s most exclusive postcodes. The other is a modest family home in County Durham on the market for £150,000. Yet the owners of the three-bedroom semi-detached home in the village of Lanchester have to pay £1,794 in council tax every year. Whereas the millionaires … Read more
NatWest boosts its regular savings account by putting £10,000 into a prize draw By Fiona Parker For The Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 2 March 2021 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 2 March 2021 The prize draw is open to savers opening a Digital Regular Saver this month and adding between £1 and £50 in April, … Read more
The buyers left behind: Generation rent don’t want 95% mortgages – they want house prices to come down, says VICTORIA BISCHOFF By Victoria Bischoff for the Daily Mail Published: 22:00 GMT, 2 March 2021 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 2 March 2021 Generation rent don’t want 95 per cent mortgages – they want house prices to … Read more
Would you want your bank to know how many steps you’ve walked today, or whether you got around to going for your weekly jog? You’d probably think it was none of the bank’s business – but what if it was promising you vouchers or cash to reward you for taking a certain number of daily … Read more
I ordered a MacBook Pro from Apple for my daughter, paying £2,399, and gave her address for delivery. It didn’t arrive. When I chased, I was told initially that it was in transit. Then I was informed it had been delivered to number 16, whereas the number of the address on the order was 114. … Read more
End of the pre-paid funeral rip-offs: Industry faces ban on cold calling amid concerns over pressure selling By Victoria Bischoff for the Daily Mail Published: 22:00 GMT, 2 March 2021 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 2 March 2021 Funeral plan providers face a major crackdown and a ban on cold calling amid concerns over pressure selling. … Read more
Pre-paid funeral deals will have to include a service to mark a loved one’s death in future under plans to crack down on rip-off providers. There will also be bans on cold calling, expensive add-ons and kickbacks to middlemen, to prevent people being mis-sold unsuitable funeral plans. The clampdown on firms that tout poor deals … Read more
Volvo has today unveiled a new battery-powered crossover – the C40 Recharge – as it announces new green plans to sell only electric cars exclusively online and slash the number of variants available. The new ‘vegan Volvo’ is also the first model from the Swedish car maker to be completely leather-free, it says. The C40 … Read more
A surge of holiday bookings were made last week after Boris Johnson announced the roadmap out of lockdown with many hoping for a foreign break later this year. Some of the most sought after summer destinations already booked for this summer include Greece, Spain, Turkey, Italy and Portugal, new data has revealed. Holidaymakers are looking … Read more