They send wrong bills, ignore complaints, fail to return calls and leave us on hold for hours.
Today, on behalf of millions of frustrated readers, Money Mail asks the telecoms giants... Is Anyone Listening?Thousands of you contact us each year at your wits' end because our biggest companies make it so difficult to resolve even the [...]
Financial Mail has learnt that a 'severe shortfall' is predicted between the sum savers poured in - and which it is supposed to return, plus interest, at the end of a fixed term - and the value of the company's assets.
It is expected that investors who receive regular income will cease to get [...]
The numbers Figures from profits at British Gas came within the results reported by parent company Centrica. Across the whole group, Centrica made £1.86bn in the previous 12 month 7% lower than the year before. But the losses were eased by a whopping 58% spike at from British Gas' residential supply business [...]
The grants, which represent a 25% discount, will be available from January 2011 when a range of eligible vehicles are expected to be available. Among the first cars to qualify will be so-called 'plug-in' petrol-electric hybrids, which are charged from the mains but also have a conventional petrol or diesel [...]
Many people have this question whether they should or should not go to a debt attorney for resolving their debt related problems. If it is regarding credit card debts or payday loans, the query becomes all the more puzzling! People often get scared with the thought of an attorney, legal laws and the court.
Let’s go [...]
Based in Yeovil, Somerset, with offices in Leeds and London, CHT has around 3,000 customers, and in 2008 made a tiny pre-tax profit of £450,000.
So why did Virgin buy such small fry?
It's a springboard for bigger things. Virgin will be granted the prize it is after - a banking licence ' as soon as [...]
The Centre for Economics and Business Research also said it expected the UK bank rate to remain at 0.5% until 2011.
The CEBR has revised up its housing forecasts thanks to an improvement in availability of mortgages and more loan approvals.
It also believes that interest rates will stay at 0.5% until at [...]
Home Office minister Alan Campbell last night tabled laws which will, for the first time, give drivers the right to an independent appeal if they are clamped on private land.
A tribunal, which will be funded by charges made against clamping companies, will have the power to order firms to repay in full unfair fines or [...]
Around 400,000 men a year will qualify for the extension, which comes into force from April next year.
Business leaders have raised concerns about the impact on firms still recovering from the recession.
Currently, they can take two weeks off after having a child and about 60% of eligible men take up the [...]
Andrew Clare Professor at Cass Business School and chairman of Fathom ConsultingWHAT WILL £1 BUY IN EUROS THIS SUMMER?: €1.15 WHEN TO BUY: Now 'The halcyon days of 68p to the euro are long gone. Holidaymakers should expect to pay around 87p for a euro in the summer. For those who want [...]
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