Money

Do You Know Your Refund Rights?
2 March 2010

Do You Know Your Refund Rights?
More than 12 million UK consumers have experienced problems when trying to return unwanted or faulty goods to clothes shops, a survey released today by the Department for Business, Innovation ...

Dr Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
13 January 2010

Brits Are A Bunch of Entrepreneurs
The statistics from new mobile company GiffGaff has found that 70% of us enjoy finding ways to supplement incomes and being entrepreneurial, and that 67% of Brits want to be ...

Money
22 December 2009

Make Sure You Get What You Pay For This Christmas
Make the most of festive shopping with tips on what to do if you are sold faulty goods and why you should look out for firms operating to an OFT ...

Brits Spend Six Months Christmas Shopping During Lifetime
17 December 2009

Brits Spend Six Months Christmas Shopping During Lifetime
On average, Brits spend three days, six hours and 35 minutes per year shopping around for Christmas presents for their nearest and dearest - equivalent to six months over a ...

How To Save Money This Christmas
8 December 2009

How To Save Money This Christmas
It could be good news for the high street as research shows that despite harder times we plan to spend hundreds of pounds on presents, as well as food and ...

Gifts This Christmas
7 December 2009

Frankincense, gold and myrrh
In 2007 Ebay told us that us Brits auctioned off a whopping £1.7billion worth of unwanted Christmas gifts.The average household will receive £600 worth of gifts, and research shows that ...

Rik Ferguson
4 December 2009

Cybercriminals set to target the festive season
Organised criminal gangs are set to use Christmas as a way of spreading computer viruses.An increase in online activity over the festive season will give cybercriminals the ideal opportunity to ...

Dads Come off Worst At Christmas
3 December 2009

Dads Come off Worst At Christmas
As the festive season gets into swing, the latest findings from a nationwide study by CitySocialising, which questioned 2512 of its members from across the UK about Christmas, have revealed ...

Gifts
1 December 2009

Gift Buying This Christmas
It’s the 1st of December, no doubt your local towns Christmas lights will have been up for a month already, the shops will have hiked their gift prices up 20% ...

Christmas Stock
20 November 2009

The Christmas Party Still Going Ahead
New research out today from lastminute.com reveals that almost 11 million working Brits are snubbing the recession by going ahead with their work Christmas parties.And while 23% of those admit ...

Would You Slip back Into Pre-Recession Habits?
15 October 2009

Would You Slip Back Into Pre-Recession Habits?
Despite today’s era of ‘new austerity’ being beneficial for the nations’ health, two in three people (65%) will slip back into unhealthy pre-recession habits, research released today by Aviva reveals.The ...

Cashback
29 September 2009

Shoppers Missing Out On Cashback
British shoppers are missing out on £3.2 billion each year, according to new research from price comparison site, Kelkoo. That’s £273 million of untapped cash that could be earned per ...

Stephan Musikant
20 August 2009

Europe And The Credit Crunch
International research released today by Ciao, Europe’s leading comparison shopping community, offers new insight into the impact of the recession on people across Europe highlighting key differences in the responses ...

Top jobs are still for the City boys
8 July 2009

Top jobs are still for the City boys
British men think a woman’s financial place is in the homeWednesday 8th July:  British men do not blame testosterone fuelled bankers for the credit crunch and recession, research from money.co.uk ...

Britons too embarrassed to ask for financial assistance
25 June 2009

Britons too embarrassed to ask for financial assistance
Turn2us is a charity that puts people who find themselves in financial difficulties in touch with one of the 3,300 charities around the country that can offer financial support.In fact, ...

School Trips
27 March 2009

The Credit Crunch Hits School Trips
Nine out of ten teachers say the current economic climate would make it harder to arrange school trips in the future according to results of a report issued today at ...

Wedding Planner
2 February 2009

What To Make Extra Money? Become A Wedding Planner
We’re all sick of the words credit crunch and the instability the recession brings to our lives, but The Wedding Planner School report that large numbers of people are fighting ...

Money
5 December 2008

A Girl’s Guide to Pensions
Things every woman should know about pensionsThe world of pensions can seem distant, daunting and often irrelevant when many of us are concentrating on the now - paying our bills, ...

Pounds Record Loss'
4 December 2008

Pound Drops To Record Low
The Pound Hits Record Euro LowThe British pound has dropped to a historic low against the euro as markets expect the Bank of England to further drop its interest rates. ...

29 October 2008

3-Year Railcard... a New, Epic Way to Save
Epic savings on days out on the train just got better with the launch of a 3-year Railcard. The new 3-year Railcard costs £65 and allows holders to save ...

27 October 2008

Celeb Chat Rings In The Pounds
Research out today from Tesco Mobile to celebrate its new pay as you go tariff has revealed that whilst they might be giving away free credit for talk-time, ...

15 October 2008

National Identity Fraud Prevention Week
After a week of raising awareness of the risk of identity fraud – in the name of National Identity Fraud Prevention Week – it is both shocking and disappointing to ...

15 October 2008

Healthy Food Savings
1. Buy from the pick-your-own isles 2. Go to market 3. Shop Online 4. Avoid ready meals 5. Buy vitamins in bulk 6. Buy cheap and healthy meats 1. Make a list Don’t ...

1 October 2008

Coy Couples Missing Out On Current Account Cash
Over a quarter (27 per cent) of British couples could be missing out on higher credit interest rates by not pooling their current account cash, according to new research from ...