Food prices in UK supermarkets and shops have increased by an average of 8.3% since the start of this year, according to an index compiled by the BBC.Fresh fruit and vegetables have risen in price b...
People who regularly put money into a savings account as children are 56 per cent more likely to be regular savers as adults, according to new research from Nationwide. Of the survey respondents who...
As the latest banking industry figures report a leap in the number of UK adults banking and using credit cards online, financial data analyst Moneynet warns that fraudsters are becoming ever more dete...
A Shrewsbury man has been prevented by his bank from using an online banking password that criticised the institution.Angry with Lloyds TSB over travel insurance that was offered with the bank accou...
Gordon Brown has announced a one year stamp duty holiday for all properties worth less than £175,000. Currently, properties that sell for £125,000 or more incur stamp duty, at a cost of 1%...
Following Chancellor Alistair Darling's surprisingly frank admission that economic conditions are "arguably the worst they've been in 60 years," many British households may well be feeling t...
According to a Cambridge University study, if the first part of an email address (that part before the '@' symbol) starts with a J, A, U, I, R, P, M, or S, then it is likely to get proportionately twi...
The British people now owe more money than the country collectively generates in a year. Accountants Grant Thornton report that, at the end of June, Britain's gross domestic product (GDP) was £...
Much like variable mortgage rates, variable interest rates on savings accounts can be a cause for concern. What if the attractive headline rate that attracted you to the account should suddenly vanish...
CHEAP and cheerful index tracking funds are short-changing investors to the tune of thousands of pounds, warns data analyst Moneyspider.com Popular due to their low charging structures and steady pe...
Parents are tightening the purse strings as the credit crunch takes hold. Average weekly pocket money in 2008 dropped 23% to £6.13 a week, according to research from Halifax. This actually rep...
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is on the tail of UK savers who may be hiding funds offshore and who have not paid tax on the interest, or declared income, from those funds. Yet a number of banks stil...
Liberal Democrat leader Mr Clegg, who lives with his wife Miriam Gonzalez Durantez and their two young sons in Putney, South-West London, has said his family is feeling the effect of the credit crunch...
Firms are cracking down on the practice of file sharing that is depriving them of millions of pounds worth of copyright royalties.A British woman has just been fined £16k for sharing an online...
Bupa has issued tips designed to help people save money by getting healthy. Exercising outdoors, growing fruit and vegetables, quitting smoking and drinking tap water instead of coffee are the money-s...
Savers should beware that billions of pounds are languishing in savings accounts that are losing value in real terms after the recent hike in inflation. Top-rate taxpayers are unable to achieve a po...
The Scottish Government plans to bulk-buy electricity for the whole public sector. At present there are hundreds of individual public sector contracts in Scotland costing £200 million a y...
Good news for dairy lovers: the price of milk has been slashed, as supermarkets compete with each other for customers.Asda has announced it is now charging 50p instead of 80p for two pints of milk -...
HBOS has today announced that its subsidiary Intelligent Finance is close its credit cards, current accounts and personal loans operations.The financial firm claims the shut-down is part of a genera...
UK inflation is now more than double the Government's target, having hit 4.4% in July. This breaks two records: it is both the biggest monthly change since records began in 1997 (0.6%), and the highes...
