February 2024

Cosmetics retailer The Body Shop has fallen into administration, resulting in almost half of its 198 stores shutting their doors for good and hundreds of staff facing redundancy. Below we round up all you need to know.

If you're a Shell Energy broadband and home phone customer, you'll soon be automatically transferred to TalkTalk – but your service should continue as before and you should keep paying your bills as normal.

The price households pay for gas and electricity will fall by 12% on average from 1 April as energy regulator Ofgem has announced the latest Energy Price Cap rates. Yet despite this, energy bills remain much higher than before the energy crisis hit. We've full info below.

Council tax bills will rise for millions of people from 1 April, with most local authorities in England preparing increases of 5% – adding around £100 to a typical band D bill. In Wales, most councils are planning rises of between around 5% to 10%, while in Scotland council tax bills are mostly frozen. 

If you've got a Ring doorbell 'Protect Basic' plan, you'll see the cost of your subscription rise by 43% on Monday 11 March, whether you pay monthly or annually. However, if you want to stick with Ring, you've less than a week left to use our trick to beat the hikes for at least a year. Here's what's happening.

Mortgage prisoners are still suffering every month and need urgent help from the Government, a parliamentary group has said. The call comes nearly a year after the publication of a major report, funded by MoneySavingExpert.com founder Martin Lewis, which put forward costed solutions to the nightmare situation facing up to 200,000 people in the UK.

If you've got a Tesco Clubcard, urgently check when your vouchers expire as £18 million worth will run out by the end of today (29 February). Don't want to spend your vouchers yet? We've got a trick to extend their validity.

If you're a Chase customer, you'll soon need to pay in at least £1,500 a month to qualify for its 1% debit card cashback offer. But depending on when you signed up, this change won't take effect immediately – and you can work around it if you'll spend less than £1,500 each month.

If you collect Avios – the reward currency of the British Airways 'Executive Club' loyalty scheme – and you're planning to convert them into Nectar points, you should make the swap before Monday 11 March. From this date, the value of Avios being converted to Nectar will be slashed. But only do this if you're sure you won't use your Avios for reward flights, as that can be much more lucrative.

A penalty paid by first-time buyers accessing savings in Lifetime ISAs (LISAs) when buying homes above the scheme's £450,000 property price limit could be scrapped, it's been revealed. A new report suggests the Chancellor will remove the withdrawal fee in his upcoming Budget. This would be a win for MoneySavingExpert.com and its founder Martin Lewis who have long campaigned on the issue.