9 May, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
Major energy company is offering two hours free a week to help lower bills
Last month was dubbed ‘Awful April’ thanks to the increase in household bills (Picture: Getty Images) Listen to article Listen to article Your browser does not support the audio element. After bills increased again at the start of last month, many households across the country continue to struggle with the cost of living crisis. April […]
9 May, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
What I Spent: The wedding you actually get for £5,000, £20,000 or £50,000
Costs for your big day can spiral (Picture: Amy Elizabeth Photo) Listen to article Listen to article Your browser does not support the audio element. The average wedding in the UK now costs £23,250 – almost £6,000 more than in 2021. That doesn’t tell the full story though, as according to Bridebook, a quarter of couples will spend less […]
6 May, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
I’m a foodbank volunteer and have to throw away 20% of our donations
I’m constantly battling for the food I need to feed people with balanced, nutritious meals (Picture: Getty Images/iStockphoto) Stale croissants mixed in with dying flowers. Browning broccoli scattered with bashed up blueberries. Fizzy fruit salads. Wet, wilted bags of rocket and leaves. Potato salad, or coleslaw, or cream or milk with the clock ticking down […]
1 May, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
‘Cash is king’: UK shoppers fume over businesses that only accept card payment
It’s easy to tap and pay (Picture: Getty Images) When Covid forced the high street to go digital and turned handling physical money into a health risk, some businesses decided to stop accepting cash altogether. As a result, cash use fell by 35% in 2020 alone, the steepest drop in a years-long downward trajectory. Just […]
Moorcroft Pottery has been an important part of Stoke-on-Trent since it was founded in 1897 (Picture: Universal Images Group via Getty Images) An iconic pottery firm has gone bust after more than 100 years of trading. Moorcroft Pottery, based in Stoke-on-Trent at the heart of the UK’s pottery region, has shut with immediate effect, putting […]
30 Apr, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
Electric meters are changing – here’s how it affects you and what you need to do
The tech is becoming obsolete (Picture: Getty Images) Hundreds of thousands of people could be left with no heating or hot water as their obsolete electricity meters are shut down. Radio Teleswitching Systems (RTS) are being switched off for good on June 30 – but energy companies warn it will be ‘very very difficult’ to […]
The campaign made it to No.10 (Picture: Metro/Belinda Jiao) Having gained over 107,000 signatures, Metro and the family support charity Feed delivered their Formula for Change petition to the Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Wes Streeting today, to demand more is done to make infant formula accessible […]
Calling all Lidl bakery fans! (Picture: Getty Images) If there’s one thing I know to be true about Lidl, it’s that the supermarket’s in-store bakery has a cult following. Seriously, people are obsessed with everything from the retailer’s All Butter Croissant – with 122 of them selling every single minute – to the chocolate twists […]
24 Apr, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
Nationwide shares major update on £100 customer bonus payout date
The mutual insitution shares profits with members rather than shareholders (Picture: In Pictures via Getty Images) If you bank with Nationwide, you could be due a windfall in the next few months — a welcome prospect for those in need of a cash boost. The building society operates as a mutual rather than a traditional bank, […]
22 Apr, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
Mum-of-two took own life ‘after mortgage payments shot up by £500 a month’
Amy Evans and her mother Kathleen Moore, with other family members (Picture: Amy Evans/SWNS) A mum-of-two killed herself after her mortgage payments rose by £500 a month and her application for benefits was turned down, her daughter has said. Kathleen Moore, 60, spent the last four years struggling to make her payments after they shot […]