Spend to mend
Giving to charity doesn't always involve handing over hard cash. You can support your favourite causes indirectly, through charity shops, credit cards, savings accounts a...
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Chip cards fail to pin down fraudsters
Anyone using a chip and Pin card to withdraw money from cash machines will continue to be at risk from fraud, despite being forced to use Pins for all transactions from n...
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Revealed: Britain's network of child drug runners
Joe had just celebrated his 15th birthday when his father asked him to join the family business: selling heroin and crack cocaine. With time on his hands after being excl...
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101 things you were afraid to ask about money
The existence of a "credit blacklist" containing the names of people who have fallen out of favour with lenders, is one of the most persistent myths of the money world.
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Watchdog reveals tax credit fiasco
The government is preparing to write off almost £1bn of overpaid tax credits following a series of errors and fraudulent claims that have dogged the much-publicised...
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Rural post office strategy 'is too rigid
Royal Mail must take a more flexible approach to its network of rural post offices and tailor facilities to individual needs, according to the postal services regulator, ...
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Five pillars of financial wisdom
The personal finance and investment world is not some distant land that we reach only in middle age when concerned about our impending retirement. Some financial events i...
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Council tax rebel faces second jail threat
Council tax protester Sylvia Hardy, 73, faces another prison sentence, a week after being released, for refusing to pay arrears from 2004-05.
The retired social worker r...
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Council tax rebel released from jail
A retired vicar jailed for non-payment of council tax was released today after serving 28 days in jail.
Alfred Ridley, 71, was released after spending four weeks at Wood...
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Do I have to pay to cancel a DD?
Q Having finally paid off my credit card debts, a few weeks ago I phoned up Barclaycard to close my account. That done, I tidied up loose ends by cancelling Barclaycard's...
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