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- Grab the bargains! 6:51am Nov 9
- Guest blog: A holiday with a difference 3:18am Nov 4
- New telephone credit card scam 5:40am Nov 2
On Working Lunch today I was talking about how to get bargains for Christmas (or indeed, after Christmas). It’s a weird old time because we are currently enjoying 2.5% off VAT and that’s going in January, just as the sales season kicks in! Should you by now or wait until after Christmas? We...
Goodbye London… I’m in the car and I’ve got my map (I’m sat nav free…old style, as I’m a snob you see…I’m clever enough to read a map). I’m on my way out of the big smoke, exhaust fumes and bustling streets, on my way to…wait for it… The Cotswolds, you ask? The Peaks? Nay, Sir… Madam. I a...
This is from a friend of mine who works for the police. Be warned!: “This one is pretty slick since they provide YOU with all theinformation, except the one piece they want. Note, the callers do not ask for your card number; they already haveit. This information is worth reading. ...
I’ve never really bothered with Halloween before. I certainly don’t stock-up on sweets for the kids in the area either (no, I’m not a Scrooge, I just can’t be bothered being bothered in the evening!). Howeve...
I’ve just had a press release from Moneyfacts.co.uk saying that even though base rate is still at its historic low of 0.5% the cost of the average loan has gone up again! Apparently the average rate you can get on a £25,000 loan has gone up from 9.5% in March to 10% now. M...
It was four years ago when we were in the states over Halloween, staying with a friend who is half-American and consequently brought up on the whole trick or treating extravaganza, that my son was introduced to the delights of things spooky...
I’m doing a ‘column’ for the Radio 4 programme You and Yours today at 11am. It’s about ‘green shoots of recovery’ – how that phrase came to be used and what are some of the more interesting indicators of it. If you’re interested, here is what I’m going to say. Norman Lamont, w...
My brother emailed me last week to suggest that he and I stop giving each other Christmas presents. “We only really exchange money,” he said, “so there’s no point really”. I agreed. In fact ...
I don’t normally do this but I’ve just received a press release that has such important information in it that I’m going to reproduce a load of it here. It’s...
Yes, seriously, Feelunique.com says they will pay you 10p per wink if you will sport their logo on your eyelid. Feelunique are a cut-price online beauty retailer. They offer free delivery worldwide too which we like...
We are currently forking out an eye-watering £181 million a day in interest payments alone. That’s according to a press release I’ve just had from comparison site Thelendingwizard (quite a good one – worth checking out). It mu...
They’re saying now that the price of second hand cars is actually going up – having tanked last year. Ou...
I’ve just spent a free weekend in Paris, thanks to my Airmiles (yes, I’m trying to get the holidays in before the Autumn really takes a grip). As you know, I’m very much of the opinion that if you’re going to spend, you might as well get the best you can from that spending. First ...
I’m in Bournemout this weekend – it’s a holiday, not a punishment…just thought I’d make that clear from the start. Like many old British seaside resorts there’s a faded grandeur about the place with a few lovely-looking hotels, a pier and some great countryside nearby. However, t...
I’ve just added my name to what I think is a really good campaign – Terminate the Rate. It’s campaigning against is the rate per minute that mobile companies charge other networks, including landlines, to call people on their network. When...
