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Cost of Childcare Continues To Rise

A new survey released this week by the Daycare trust has found that the childcare costs for England, Wales and Scotland are showing no sign of abating

Family

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Inflation Rate Even More Bad News for Savers

People interested in putting money away for a rainiy day have already been beaten about a lot during the recession. With interest rates at record lows

Save Money

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How BT?s Peak Time Change Will Affect You

BT sent out letters to its customers this week informing them that their peak time period now ended at 7pm rather than 6pm, meaning the millions of pe

Telephone

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Sale and Rent Back Deals Get More Protection

A new rule announced this week in the final regulation from the Financial Services Authority (FSA) means that anyone who decides to swap ownership of

Politics, mortgages

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Payments to Egg Delayed by Database Bugs

NatWest customers who happen to also own an Egg credit card have unable to make payments via the Egg website for over two months due to a database gli

Banking, Consumer, Credit Cards

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Government Warns of Tax Return Email Scam

As Tax Returns are handed in this week, scammers have targeted those people filling out their returns through a massive fraud email scam. The emails w

Consumer, Legal

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UK Fraud Total Higher Than Predicted

Insurance scams, online theft, tax fraud and evasion are costing the UK as much as ?30bn every single year, according to the latest official figures.

Politics

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Making the Most of Gift Aid

The Haiti Earthquake has devastated the country, and news of the deaths and devastation has been everywhere in the last few weeks. Countries all over

Non Profit

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Ofgem Promise Better Rights for Energy Customers

The idea of text fundraising might be quite a new one, but it?s starting to see a massive explosion in its use that could see it overtaking much more

Energy News

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Credit Card Balance Increases Could Be Likely In the Future

The UKs infatuation with credit, especially via the form of the credit card, is something that has placed a lot of consumers into serious debt. Many p

Credit Cards

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