The Financial Conduct Authority and The Pensions Regulator have issued a statement, to warn the public to be vigilant when receiving cold-calls, regarding pension investments.
The warning comes after 253 victims contacted Action Fraud to report pension investment Swindle. This resulted in more than £23 million lost to pension scammers in 2017 alone. […]
Shop Direct lose £24.7 million in PPI Claims.
Shop Direct, which owns Very.co.uk and Littlewoods.com, have reported a loss of £24.7 million in one year. This is in stark contrast to a £24.9 million profit in 2017. The company has put the loss down to a further £128 million set-aside to compensate customers […]
UK Flights with Primera Air have been cancelled, as the airline ended more than 200 flight routes from Birmingham Airport, affecting thousands of passengers.
Just 4 months after launching flights from Birmingham airport, a budget airline has announced it is scrapping flights to all 7 destinations in the Mediterranean and Canary Islands.
Primera Air […]
Marriott and Starwood Merge for a colossal rebrand.
The merger, which was completed on 1 August, has created the largest portfolio, with 110 Million members and over 6,500 hotels, in 127 countries and 29 brands. They are taking all of these members and brands and combining them into one. This single brand is […]
It was one of the busiest weeks of the year for Eurotunnel but travellers were left frustrated when their holidays got off to a bad start.
Massive traffic jams formed on the M20 near Folkestone, in Kent, with drivers abandoning cars to seek shade, on the hottest day of the year. Some passengers […]
Here are just some of the scams we should be on the lookout for.
Police are warning people over doorstep scammers who pose as ex-offenders. The scam involves people posing as ex-offenders going door to door selling items and Greater Manchester Police force are so concerned they have issued a warning. Bogus […]
As people are becoming more and more aware of the types of scams out there, swindlers are having to create new ones, to replace the old ones. We are all aware of Phising but have you heard about Vishing, Spoofing, Twishing and Smishing ?
Neither had we, but these are just some of […]
AMS Marketing LTD, based in East Sussex, made 75,649 calls to people who had registered their telephone numbers on the Telephone Preference Service (TPS).
The ICO and TPS received a total of 103 complaints about the unsolicited calls between the dates of 1 October 2016 and 31 December 2017.
It is against the law […]
The UK will leave the EU on Friday 29 March 2019 and there will be many, many changes to get used to, but how will travel and holidaying abroad work ?
A transition period has been agreed, in principle, between the EU and UK, until 31 December 2020.
There is a lot of uncertainty […]
Some towns no longer have a bank or won’t have a bank by the end of the year. Latest figures published by Which? Say nearly 2,900 branches nationwide will have been lost between 2015 and the end of 2018. In the West Midlands alone 208 branches have or will be closed by […]
You are able to pursue a claim yourself to the Financial Ombudsman Service without incurring a fee
