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Leisure Lolly: Ticket, Bookings, Restaurants and Days Out Cost Cutting. NEW ARTICLE
It's not just touts who aim to push prices up. Agencies, restaurants, theatres, theme parks and cinemas all make you pay as much as they can get away with. This totally new article details websites, strategies and vouchers to get the prices lower than Britney Spears' jeans. New Article: Ticket Cost Cutting

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New Top Cashback Deal. Amex Platinum offers 3% cashback for first three months
The American Express Platinum* credit card now pays new cardholders a whopping 3% intro cashback, i.e. for each £100 spent on the card it returns £3. Yet remember the golden rule; only choose a cashback card if you always repay it in full every month, otherwise pick based on the interest rate. Sadly as well as this intro offer, it's also slightly lessened its normal cashback rates, though it's still the top high spenders card (existing customers' rates change in Oct). For full details, and other options read the Updated Article: Best Cashback Cards. (mini-mutterings) Related Articles. Best Balance Transfers, Top Lend for spend

Going on a European holiday? Grab a free Health Insurance card ASAP
The new official European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) extends your rights to free or discounted medical treatment to any EU country. You can order one online or from the post office (it can take 3 weeks). It's well worth having, yet don't think it's a replacement for travel insurance as it doesn't cover repatriation costs, lost money, baggage or cancellation; it's more of a safety net. Related Articles: Cheaper Travel Insurance, Flight Finding, Holiday Haggling, Spending Overseas (mini-mutterings)

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Repensioning. Increase your pension fund by £1000s without any risk. NEW ARTICLE.
Existing private pension holders can increase the size of their pension fund by up to 4%, by snatching back the commission you're unknowingly paying. A massive boost at no extra risk. New Article: Repensioning. Related Articles: Pension MoneySaving (mini-mutterings)

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The Carol Vorderman Appeal. 86,000 signed the petition, a parliamentary motion, now what?
Two months ago I launched an appeal to ask Carol Vorderman to 'please stop doing adverts for secured loans'. 86,000 signed & 66 MPs signed a similar Early Day Motion, newspapers covered it as did BBC1's Real Story. The response? Similar to her pre-appeal reaction, just lawyers' letters! I'm disappointed, I honestly thought she'd understand why I, and the other 86,000 of you, are so concerned, and would stop. Since she is an intelligent woman I have to conclude that she does understand, and doesn't care. There is little more that can be done. At least the coverage hopefully meant many will've thought twice before taking inappropriate secured loans. Related Links: Sign the petition, More about the Appeal Related Articles: What To Do With Problem Debts, Secured Loans, Lending of Last Resort

Free credit information now officially in the Wales and West but there's a sneaky route for all
A new firm, Annual Credit Report, offers a free annual credit report yet it's launching region by region. Devon & Cornwall were first and now it's extended to Wales and the West. If you're not in one of the areas covered though don't worry; anyone can get a free credit report by exploiting a loophole; simply sign up for a free 30 day trial of either (or both) Experian's Credit Expert* or Equifax's Credit Watch* get your report, then cancel the service, for more information read the Updated Articles: Your Credit Rating, How It Works and Check And Improve Your Credit Score Related Articles: Cheapest Personal Loans, Best Lend for Spend

Nectar Double Rewards Watch! This week kids go free on the Eurostar

Great Free Things To Do With The Kids Hunt
Summers' nearly upon us and I thought I'd tap MoneySavers wealth of knowledge for tips of free things to do with the kids over the long holidays.  Add your ideas/read others Past Great Hunts:  Who Pays Compensation If You Ask, Job Based Discounts and Spruce Up Your Home.

FLIGHTCHECKER SALES WATCH  Amsterdam, Paris & Edinburgh c. £15 each way
Budget airline bmibaby currently has a range of destinations at £13.99 and £14.99 each way including taxes and charges. For a full briefing read the How To Find a Cheap Flight article or go straight to the special free FlightChecker to find the seats in seconds

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Board of the week: Student MoneySaving
Students are renowned for being skint but with a bit of savvy MoneySaving you can enjoy the champagne lifestyle on a coke budget!  Discussions include Save money on drugs, Getting a loan to put in an ISA and Selling 6th Form books.

JEREMY VINE THIS FRIDAY:  My regular phone in on Radio 2's Vine Show is on all aspects of Debt. It's on Friday from 1 to 1.40pm

This week's Martin's Musings: My girlfriend the Superman film star.
'All hail Skype' and 'Yes it is...any chance of an upgrade' Read m'blogs (or RSS users access)

HAVE 1 IN 4 REALLY BEEN A VICTIM OF ID FRAUD? POLL: Vote or Discuss. Last week's vote result: Do you file or ignore it? It seems like the majority of you are very organised with over 60% of you checking your bills and filing them. But just because you're organised doesn't make you a good MoneySaver - make sure you pay attention to those bills! See poll results

That's it for this week. Before I go though, thought you might like to go and have a look at the site's Gallery. It's had a tidy up and all the new versions of me that the site designer loves to play about with are in there (it scares the life out of me whenever a new one is due).

I hope you save some money

Martin

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