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Which? says customer services gave wrong advice about models at risk of catching fireThe white goods manufacturer Whirlpool and retailers selling its products are failing to give correct safety […]

Frustrated customers told they may have to wait until next week before normal service returnsTSB customers have spent their seventh successive day battling to access their accounts as the bank […]

Each month we look at key indicators to see what effect the Brexit process has on growth, prosperity and trade in the UK•Interest rate rise clouds outlook•Experts debate the data Continue […]

We had to buy on-the-spot tickets … for £320 more than the originalsWe used Opodo to buy two airline tickets from Florence to Nice, and received a confirmation email. When we got to the […]

But the bank's chief tells the BBC it will "come back fighting” after more than six days of IT chaos. […]

LONDON (Reuters) - British banks approved the second-lowest number of mortgages since the start of 2015 last month, as icy weather appeared to exacerbate an already-muted housing market in much of […]

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's TSB Bank has called in International Business Machines Corp to help resolve an IT crisis that has left dozens of customers without access to digital services for almost […]

The competition watchdog says the planned merger of the two energy giants could face an in-depth inquiry. […]

LONDON (Reuters) - British bank Barclays and digital payments firm PayPal have announced a partnership that will see them explore ways to combine their services for customers, Barclays said on […]

LONDON (Reuters) - Rents for residential properties in Britain fell in quarterly terms for the first time since 2012 in the January-March period of this year, intensifying a slowdown which began […]

LONDON (Reuters) - British employers appear to be settling on a new, higher benchmark for annual pay awards for staff in the run-up to April, the most important month of the year for new pay deals, […]

One young woman tells the BBC how she let her bank account be used for money-laundering scam. […]

Crisis-hit TSB said its internet bank is working at 50% capacity, leaving half of customers locked out. […]

Cyber-security researchers found a way to unlock rooms across the world without leaving a trace. […]

Regulator says secondary ticketing website has ignored its demands to make changesThe secondary ticketing firm Viagogo looks set to be taken to court for breaching consumer protection laws after the […]

Woman whose London flat has slumped in value is told she can pay back £10,000 of £95,000 loanThe government has agreed to virtually wipe out a help-to-buy loan on an apartment in a London […]

A GoCompare advert has been banned from daytime TV for encouraging kids to swallow money. […]

The lucky ticket will see the holder become the country's third biggest lottery winner of all time. […]

LONDON (Reuters) - Huge payouts to customers mis-sold mortgage and credit card payment protection insurance (PPI) have cost British banks dearly for years, but the end may be in sight and income fund […]

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's government on Wednesday pledged fresh funds to crack down on illegal money lenders, who charge unfair high interest rates and often intimidate, threaten and trap […]

LONDON (Reuters) - Bank of England Governor Mark Carney surprised investors last week when he hinted that interest rates might not go up next month - but economists say it would be wrong to rule out […]

The network keeps on billing me three-figure sums for a radio mast in my gardenI have repeatedly been billed for renting a BT radio mast from O2. I am a single woman on a £25-a-month 3G […]

The Treasury aims to stamp out the 'lowlife crooks' preying on vulnerable people. […]

I regretted signing a new deal in store … but there’s no way backA few weeks ago, I went into an EE shop with the intention of reducing my monthly mobile phone payments, as my contract […]

Mobile operator hits bottom in consumer group’s annual survey for seventh consecutive yearVodafone has been named as the UK’s worst mobile phone provider by the consumer group Which?It is […]

Martin Lewis is taking Facebook to court because of fake adverts showing his face. […]

Employment contracts without a minimum number of guaranteed hours increased to 1.8mThe number of zero-hours contracts in use across the UK rose by about 100,000 last year, according to official […]

I need advice on setting up a deed of trust so I get the £51,000 I’ve paid in back when we sell Q My friend and I are buying a house together. It’s very exciting but also very […]

LONDON (Reuters) - Expectations among the British public for higher interest rates in the near future cooled in mid-April, even before comments from Bank of England Governor Mark Carney last week […]

We have no signal and so I knew it wouldn’t work ... but it went ahead anywayLast February our electricity provider, Scottish Power, asked to install a smart meter. I immediately told it we […]

Unscrupulous builders can close an insolvent firm, then start afresh under a new name, leaving homeowners who have paid deposits thousands of pounds out of pocket – and with unfinished […]

The EY Item Club predicts two rises this year and two next year, despite sluggish economic growth. […]

Simba has a ‘no-quibble’ guarantee but it hasn’t fixed a ridge running down the middleI bought a Simba mattress in March 2017, and at the beginning all was good and we were happy […]

Average homeowner with a typical loan of £175,000 is now paying £44 a month more than last autumnRates on the most popular mortgage deals have reached their highest levels in two years as […]

RAF veteran received a paltry £38.80-a-week state pension – because he moved to AustraliaRAF war hero Harry Penny was shot down over Holland in 1943, successfully evaded capture for 10 […]

UK millennials face a lifetime of renting, according to a report – here’s how other nations copeIn the former textile quarter of the southern German city of Augsburg, Matthew Robinson, a […]