July 2015

Twitter app users should urgently check their settings to avoid big data bills when videos are set to automatically play on a phone or tablet. Our investigation has found an app update this week restored this potentially wallet-busting feature as the default option for many who'd changed it.

Lloyds Banking Group has set aside an extra £1.4 billion to cover payment protection insurance (PPI) mis-selling claims, financial figures released today reveal.

The latest batch of Clubcard vouchers start to drop through letterboxes next week, but don't spend 'em on groceries. On Monday (3 August), Tesco launches its summer Clubcard Boost, which lets you double their value.

Mobile phone users may find it easier to change provider in future, as communications regulator Ofcom has today launched a consultation on how to improve switching.

Millions of BT broadband, phone and TV customers will be hit with inflation-busting price rises of up to 7% from September in the latest raft of hikes from the telecoms giant. It's the third time since the start of 2014 it has raised standard line rental prices.

More than 92,000 customers of payday loan firm, Cash Genie, are due a share of £10m in redress after the firm was found guilty of making a number of "serious failings", including charging unfair fees and rolling customers' loans over without consent.

About 41,000 Northern Rock mortgage customers with unsecured loans of between £25,000 and £30,000 have been dealt a massive blow this morning, as the Court of Appeal has ruled they're not due redress for historic paperwork blunders.

A flagship scheme set up to encourage homeowners to make their property more energy-efficient by installing measures such as insulation, double-glazing and new boilers today stopped accepting new loan applications after the Government abruptly axed its funding.

A determined motorist is today continuing his fight against an unfair private parking 'fine' at the Supreme Court, after losing his test case at the Court of Appeal earlier this year.