February 2013

Britain's biggest building society is urging the Government to use next month's Budget to double the amount hard-pressed savers can place into cash Isas.

13,500 customers with a Bank of Ireland base rate tracker mortgage should brace themselves as rates will soar from 1 May, even though the base rate hasn't changed for four years. If hit, you can escape penalty-free.

MoneySavingExpert.com is declaring war on mobile and tablet games that tempt kids to splash out huge sums of their parents' cash. Today, we expose the My Little Pony mobile and tablet game, which encourages kids to spend £70 on 'virtual gems', yet its makers call it "great value".

More than 40% of local authorities across England will increase council tax bills, despite Government calls to freeze them, a survey has revealed today.

The number of calls from people with payday loan problems to the National Debtline charity increased by 94% last year, new figures show.

British Gas has revealed an 11% increase in profits today, just months after hiking customer tariffs.

Theatre and music fans are to get better protection from hidden booking fees, after the Advertising Standards Authority ruled ticket retailers can't display prices without including compulsory booking fees .

Just over half of meat-eaters say they would buy safe horse meat, a poll of almost 14,000 MoneySavingExpert.com users has found.

Nationwide customers should watch out for spam messages, after email addresses were revealed in a monthly newsletter sent by the building society to some of its members.