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Sky TV customers face 2.5% price hike
Some Sky TV customers will be hit with average price rises of 2.5% from 1 September, it has been revealed
2 July 2013

Primus blunder sees customers not told about price hike
Primus has delayed increasing line rental charges for some customers, after it emerged they hadn't been told about it
12 April 2013

10,000 Sky customers face 18% line rental price hike
Affected Sky customers will see their line rental costs increase to 14.50 a month from 1 June
5 April 2013

Primus customers hit by service woes
Complaints about home phone and broadband provider Primus have escalated over the past few weeks
28 January 2013

Free broadband for Tesco Mobile users - but is it worth it?
Tesco Mobile users can get 12 months free broadband if they sign up by the end of 2012 - but have to pay line rental too
25 September 2012

Orange ends free broadband
To continue getting free broadband Orange mobile customers now have to pay for the provider's line rental
29 August 2012

BT hikes prices for millions
Cost of landlines, calls, broadband & BT Vision to go up from 5 Jan 2013
27 August 2012

Primus raises line rental for thousands of customers
Primus is increasing its line rental prices for 45,000 of its customers this August
29 June 2012

TalkTalk raises prices for millions of customers
Millions of TalkTalk customers face a line rental price increase from May, but can escape contracts penalty-free
1 April 2012

Home phone and broadband prices on the rise
Virgin Media, O2 and Orange have all announced an array of price rises to come into force over the coming months
7 February 2012
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Morrisons to reserve 5% 'deposit' on online orders - here's what's happening and how it affects you
27 May 2022Online shoppers at Morrisons will now see a 5% holding "deposit" taken on top of their total bill to help cover the cost of substitutions, the supermarket has said. So ensure you have the extra money in your account to place an order and bear in mind you can't access this cash until your final bill clears. -
Martin Lewis backs calls to ensure search engines must prevent scam ads as part of the Online Safety Bill - here's all you need to know
26 May 2022MoneySavingExpert (MSE) founder Martin Lewis has backed calls by consumer group Which? to tighten the wording within the forthcoming Online Safety Bill to ensure search engines, as well as social media companies, are forced to prevent fraudulent ads from appearing on their platforms. As it stands, the wording states that search engines only have to "minimise" fake ads. -
Watch Martin Lewis's Q&A with Rishi Sunak on the new cost of living support package – plus more info on today's announcement
26 May 2022Martin puts his, MSE users' and his social media followers' questions to Rishi Sunak following today's announcement of a new cost of living crisis support package. -
Morrisons becomes the fourth major retailer to hike meal deal prices this year - here's how it compares
24 May 2022Morrisons has increased the cost of its meal deal by 50p from £3 to £3.50, making it the fourth major retailer to up prices this year. Here's how it compares. -
NS&I to increase the Premium Bond prize rate to 1.4% – here's all you need to know
24 May 2022After the rise, the odds of each £1 Premium Bond number winning a prize will increase from 34,500-to-one to 24,500-to-one.
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Martin Lewis: What I asked the Chancellor to do when I spoke to him on Monday...
26 May 2022With the announcement of the Government's energy cost of living plans due out at lunchtime. I thought I'd speedily bash out a note down of what (from memory) I'd asked the Chancellor for when we spoke on Monday - and the other general suggestions I've been making. -
Martin Lewis: Got a cash ISA? You should probably ditch it
24 May 2022Press the rewind button and go way back to April 2015... Possibly on the telly in the corner of your living room, I was on-air at the time urging savers as usual to use their new tax-free cash ISA allowance – because 'money was nicer in an ISA'. But things changed in 2016. -
Martin Lewis: 'UO is just as important as UX: A tip for anyone developing their website or app'
6 May 2022I set up MoneySavingExpert.com nearly 20 years ago – when arguably the modern web was still in its infancy. With an abundance of self-belief (something I had too much of then, as I realise now) I decided not to read any books, or follow prevailing wisdom on how a site should operate – and just do it my way. -
Martin Lewis: Money and Mental Health charity 2021/22 – Covid & cost of living hell...
26 April 2022It's hard to believe the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute (MMHPI) charity is now six years old. As the chair of trustees, each year I write the foreword to its annual report – and today the 2021/22 report is out, so I thought I'd blog my formal chair's foreword here.