Don’t carried away with an online purchase, especially when something is advertised as a great bargain. Before clicking the buy button, run through the following checklist. Is it as good a deal as it looks? Don’t take the retailer’s word for it – the websites Idealo and PriceRunner let you compare prices for items across…
We must move out of our rented flat after our landlord unexpectedly decided to sell. Luckily, we have found a new place. However, when we called our broadband provider, Virgin Media, to notify it about the move we were told it does not offer a service at our new address. Despite us being with the…
A leading appliance brand should have acted more quickly to stop the sale of cookers linked to 18 deaths in the UK and Ireland, a coroner has concluded. Geraint Williams said Beko was too slow to react when it learned that people had died and tests revealed that its cookers could cause potentially fatal buildups…
Extinction Rebellion is launching a campaign of financial civil disobedience aimed at exposing the “political economy’s complicity” in the unfolding ecological crisis. The group – which has staged some of the UK’s biggest civil disobedience protests over the past two years – is turning its attention to what it says will be a sustained campaign…
I am having the most absurd argument with E.ON after the power firm’s smart meter installation wrecked our five-year-old gas boiler and it then refused to pay for the repairs. It started when we moved our gas and electricity supply to E.ON in April. Our new tariff required us to get a smart meter for…
Q I am rather confused about my mortgage as I have never sold a property before. In a nutshell, 13 years ago we bought a house for £195,000 that we paid for with a £150,000 mortgage and £45,000 in cash. The house is now worth about £330,000 and there is £96,000 left on the mortgage….
