
How to blag a FREE hotel from your airline on a long-haul stopover
Over Easter, I made a mammoth 23,318-mile return trip to New Zealand – with two stopovers in China, for 12 and then a whopping 18 hours. While I can handle a few hours in a departure lounge, this time I was fully prepared to pay for a proper bed and shower. But when I searched for airport hotels, I discovered my airline China Southern – like many others – would put me up at no extra cost...

How to get an easy pay rise... plus other tips to boost your pension for FREE
Pensions don't have to be boring, maybe we just need to think about them in a different way. In the more than 20 years I've been writing about pensions, I've heard them described as dull, complex and a rip-off. But what if I told you that having a workplace pension can amount to an easy pay rise? And that there are ways to boost your retirement nest-egg for free – without paying in more of your hard-earned cash?

Tesco mustn’t create mortgage prisoners
This week Tesco announced it’s going to stop lending new mortgages, and it’s also going to sell on the mortgages it already has with its customers, so that they’ll be owned and managed by a different firm. Although Tesco promises the original T&Cs will remain the same, this decision to offload the loans is sounding off alarm bells.

The MoneySavingIdiot checked his credit score – and this is what he found
Did you miss the first two sure-to-be-award-winning MoneySavingIdiot blogs (on train delays and travelling abroad)? If so, then here's the idea. Although working at MSE means I help people save money, I suck at doing the same for myself. So I'm attempting to improve my cash-related competence and help inspire other non-natural MoneySavers. This week: credit scores.
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