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Mary Higgins’s life changed the moment the phone rang one afternoon in November. The caller claimed to be from the Metropolitan police fraud department and told her that her bank cards had been compromised. In an elaborate scam, involving two days of phone calls from fake officials, the 78-year-old was persuaded that she was helping …

Green-minded individuals with an appetite for risk are being targeted by a new investment paying an eye-catching 9% interest a year. This five-year green bond, launched this week by the crowdfunding platform Abundance Investment, seeks to raise £4m for a private company called Iduna to finance the installation of 50 new electric vehicle charging points …

Gardening is always a process of experimentation: you will kill some plants along the way while others thrive in a way you may never have expected. But by doing some research before you head online or to the garden centre, you can save yourself wasting lots of time and money on projects that will only …

Electricity prices have significantly fallen since last year, meaning that you could be saving hundreds on your annual energy bill. New figures released this week by the Australia Competition and Consumer Commission found that retail electricity offers for households in eastern and southern states are, on average, 8.8 per cent lower than they were in …

You choose the plants online but before you’ve even decided where to plant them, a second email arrives: “Unfortunately, there has been a delay with the dispatch of your order. I am very sorry for the inconvenience this may cause.” It’s been a familiar story over the past few years from keen gardeners ordering plants …