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Mobile provider Three is making calls to 0800, 0808 and 0500 numbers free, while it's also cutting the cost of dialling all other 08 numbers. But customers will have to take out a new contract to take advantage.

Major banks have pledged to provide current account data in a standardised format. The Government hopes it will encourage comparison sites that could help consumers check if they're getting the best deal.

Plans to give consumers greater access to ways of solving disputes with companies over goods and services have been outlined by the Government.

The Government is ordering pension fund managers to come clean about hidden costs which can wipe tens of thousands of pounds off the value of retirement pots.

Consumers are set for stronger rights under the Government's draft Consumer Rights Bill – but the new law could be too difficult to enforce, MoneySavingExpert.com creator Martin Lewis told MPs today.

Payday loan firms including Wonga are to start using a new "real-time" information sharing service about consumers' borrowing habits.

Thousands of social housing tenants have been wrongly hit by the so-called bedroom tax and are due money back, it has emerged.

Motorists could see insurance premiums cut by up to £15 a year after the Government announced all driving licence records will be put online.

Millions of Scottish Power and Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) customers will see their bills fall, after Government moves to cut the cost of energy tariffs – but the savings will just trim both firms' winter price hikes, so the net result is that prices are still up.