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A rise in the theft of catalytic converters from parked cars continued last year with the car insurer Admiral reporting a 44% jump in claims for the issue from its customers. Thieves have targeted car exhaust systems in recent years because some of the rare metals found in the catalytic converters are more valuable than …
Half of UK listed companies increased, restarted or held their shareholder payouts steady between January and March, compared with just a third in the final three months of 2020, signalling the beginnings of corporate recovery from the shock caused by Covid-19. Dividends paid to investors fell by almost 27% to £12.7bn, excluding one-off specials, in …
Can you ask Barclaycard to explain its bizarre decision to slash my husband’s credit limit from £6,500 to £250? He has held the card for many years and paid the balance in full every month. No explanation has been offered. We are retired and our income hasn’t changed. The only reason we can think of …
Q My husband and I have £27,000 worth of debt on loans and credit cards that we pay back monthly. We have never defaulted on these payments but feel like we will never see the back of the debt. We are looking to move and have recently put our house on the market. From the …
Efforts to make summer music festivals Covid safe are being undermined by “parasitic” ticket touts and resale sites such as Viagogo and StubHub, leading music industry figures have warned. A Guardian investigation found that dozens of professional touts have snapped up tickets for eagerly awaited festivals and are demanding massively inflated prices from fans desperate …