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11 million use credit cards...
Christmas can be an expensive time. Research from American Express in late 2009 found that the average British family spends £469 on the festive period whilst a survey from a leading money...
Scam alert over bogus offers...
Scammers are conning one in 20 people to part with cash by bombarding homes by phone, mail and online by duping them with fake offers. Consumer champions the Office of Fair trading has set up a ‘...
January’s house price...
House prices dropped again in January, continuing the downward trend the market has seen sincethe middle of 2010. A spokesman for Nationwide commented that the property market “entered2011 with...
HMRC sends in the heavies fo...
HM Revenue & Customs will arrange for debt collectors to let loose on taxpayers to recover around £1.5bn of outstanding taxes and other money owed. The actual purge might find the collectors...