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30/07/2024
Broadband Outages, Ten Years of Digital Banks and Energy Credit Balances
How much is too much to have in credit with your energy company?
Gap Finders: Purdy & Figg
Purdy & Figg is a company that sells all-natural, nontoxic surface cleaner.
Interest Rate Cut, Boots Data, Children鈥檚 Finances
How will the Bank of England鈥檚 interest rate cut impact consumers?
Call You and Yours: How do you try to keep active?
How do you try to keep active?
Holiday Accommodation, Single Cost of LIving and Home Sale Delays
The online holiday accommodation bookings that fail, leaving customers to sort it out.
Gap Finders: Loungers PLC
An idea from three friends in 2002 has turned in to the 7th biggest UK restaurant group.
Airport meet and greets, audio books and tribute festivals
Can the parking industry improve airport meet and greet services?
Call You & Yours: Single Living
More of us are living alone and new research says it costs more. What's it like for you?
Savings, Second-hand Books, Cost of University
What is the cost of going to University?
Gap Finders: Hays Travel
How an idea in the north east in 1980 became the UK鈥檚 biggest independent travel agent.
Flat sales, high heels and browser cookies
What's happening with flat sales?
Call You&Yours : Do you eat more than you ought?
Call You & Yours: Do you eat more than you ought, what are you doing about it?
Dating Fraud, AAA Games and Air Fryers
We hear from a woman manipulated by a new dating fraud scam which cost her 拢80,000
Gap Finders: Frahm Jackets
The jacket company built from the ashes of of a business that went bust.
Student Commuters, Charity Superstores and the NHS App
More students are commuting but are universities set up to give them the best experience?
Call You & Yours: Holiday Nightmares
From lost luggage to cancelled flights, what are your holiday horror stories?
Energy Bills, Used Car Finance and Vets
As we wait on news on energy bills, we ask what help is there for people struggling now.
Gap Finders: InterAct Stroke Support
The charity that helps stroke survivors through reading.
Childcare costs, Hotel Rooms and Indemnity Insurance
The new mums returning to work early because they need childcare credit to make ends meet.
Call You and Yours: How are you managing your childcare?
How are you managing your childcare?
Mortgage Rates, Corkage Fees and Scam Complaints
Scam complaints hit highest quarterly levels.
Gap Finders: Maeving
The UK鈥檚 first electric motorbike manufacturer, based in Coventry.
Owed thousands by your landlord
Battle to reclaim rent and John Lewis.
Call You and Yours : Working From Home
How much do you value working from home?
Financial Abuse, Coffee Shop Remote Working, Shared Parental Leave
Report finds one in eight women in joint mortgages suffer economic abuse.
Gap Finders: D.Louise
UK tarnish proof jewellery brand started in 2021.
Winter fuel charity donations, private schools and supermarket own brands
We hear from charities who appeal for people to donate their winter fuel payments.
Call You & Yours : How should the 大象传媒 be funded in future?
How should you pay for the 大象传媒? If the licence fee was abolished, what could replace it?
Rents, House Parties and Publishing Scams
The ONS says rents are up by 8.4% - we get reaction and analysis.
Gap Finders: Lemonade Dolls
The UK lingerie company with no underwiring.