Britain being flooded with as many as one million fake stamps a week from China By Toby Walne Updated: 22:28 BST, 16 April 2024 Money Mail today demands that Royal Mail stops fining thousands of innocent people with a £5 penalty for receiving mail with a counterfeit stamp. We insist it accepts that as many … Read more
My husband and I took out a new TV, broadband and landline package with Virgin Media O2 in February 2022, after the company contacted us with the offer of a special deal if we renewed our contract. We were told we needed to include a ‘free’ O2 Sim card to be able to have the … Read more
Giving money is supposed to leave us feeling good – yet that’s not always the outcome of being generous: it can start arguments, be misinterpreted and end up leaving us wishing we’d never done it in the first place. As a money psychotherapist, I have listened to plenty of clients who felt regretful, if not … Read more
By Mike Sheen Updated: 12:43 GMT, 6 March 2024 Chancellor Jeremy Hunt today delivers a highly anticipated Spring Budget, faced with pressure to cut taxes and bolster faltering public services. The Government is keen to woo voters ahead of a looming General Election, but Hunt will be cautious of a stuttering British economy and the … Read more
When it comes to adding green technology upgrades to their properties, more often than not the first port of call for homeowners is solar panels. Homes across the country have been fitted with photovoltaic cells, and there is little sign that uptake will stop. In fact, solar panel installations have hit a seven-year high, with 161,494 … Read more
The cost of energy is dropping, but standing charges keep going up The average home will pay £219 a year in these daily fees from April By Sam Barker Updated: 06:00 GMT, 24 February 2024 Millions of households will see their daily electricity standing charges rise to a record £219 a year from April – … Read more
Enrolling in a free digital skills bootcamp could help people push into jobs that pay 55 per cent more than the national average wage, research claims. Government-backed bootcamps, which were initially launched in 2021, are intended to fill gaps in entry level recruitment for technology companies, as the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology looks … Read more
Almost one million homes face having their cheap overnight electricity tariffs disrupted next month unless they replace their old meter with a smart meter. Many homes could even lose access to heating and hot water if they do not agree to having their existing meters replaced. This is because the technology powering older Radio Teleswitch … Read more
If you don’t ask, you don’t get. That’s the classic advice for workers when it comes to securing a pay rise. But being British, many of us aren’t quite as good at this as we could be – often seeking to avoid what we feel may turn into an awkward conversation. The best way to … Read more
HMRC said its phone and post services remain ‘below [its] service standards’ But it urged more tax payers to ‘help themselves’ and go online By Jane Denton Updated: 00:01 GMT, 9 February 2024 HM Revenue & Customs has admitted that its customer service levels for taxpayers using the telephone or post to reach it remain … Read more
