Consumers are being warned about a much-hyped debit card targeting millennials, after the City regulator said it was operating without permission. Lanistar launched its app this week amid social media fanfare, having convinced celebrities including Love Island’s Chris Hughes and Tommy Fury, the model Demi Rose, and Cristiano Ronaldo’s girlfriend, Georgina Rodriguez, to back the…
A leading UK appliance brand traced and made safe only around half of the cookers it had sold of a model linked to a series of deaths from carbon monoxide poisoning, an inquest has heard. Beko put huge effort into finding thousands of customers who had bought the “potentially dangerous” cooker, the court was told….
Boris Johnson’s green industrial revolution proposals have been praised by some environmental groups but critics are warning that electric vehicles are too pricey, there’s little charging infrastructure and households will receive £10,000 bills to replace gas boilers with heat pumps. As Britain transitions to a cleaner low-carbon future, what do the plans really mean for…
My Hotpoint washing machine developed a door locking fault last week and subsequently burnt out the socket it was plugged into. I completed the recall form with Whirlpool and contacted it straight away to get a replacement. My wife and I both work in frontline social care; my wife has a uniform that she has…
Social landlords in England will be required to report on residents’ satisfaction in an effort to rebalance power between owners and tenants in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster, the housing secretary has announced. Robert Jenrick said the measurement of issues “that matter to tenants” could be used to guide investigations by a new…
About 650,000 homes in Great Britain are in process of being sold, the property website Rightmove has estimated, with the stamp duty holiday increasing activity in the most expensive regions. The listing website said the number of sales agreed was up by 50% year on year in October across the board, and in the east…
