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Has a company treated you unfairly? Our Consumer Champion is available to help. For how to contact her click here.   In 2019 I secured a Glastonbury ticket, which has been carried over to this year because of the pandemic. I paid £280 and waited for it to arrive, but it never …

Inflation at 9.1 per cent, ouch. That’s the official CPI figure, as revealed by the ONS yesterday, but many of our readers may consider the rise in the cost of living to be even more acute. For example, some favour the now non-official statistic but still used RPI measure, which …

Shares in casino and bingo firm Rank plunged after it warned of rising costs and slow recovery. The FTSE 250 group, which owns the Grosvenor Casinos chain, lamented the lack of wealthy foreign customers returning to its London venues following Covid. The turnout in its Grosvenor casinos had improved since …

Two of Britain’s top hospitality groups are celebrating the Platinum Jubilee celebrations. The City Pub Group, which runs 42 pubs in southern England and Wales, hailed ‘particularly strong’ sales last week as the bank holiday pushed like-for-like trade up by more than 20 per cent against 2019. It said: ‘Whilst …

Postboxes up and down the country are sporting crocheted ‘toppers’ of Queens, crowns and corgis to celebrate the Jubilee. But Royal Mail, now a stock market company with thousands of small investors, traces its history back to a much earlier Monarch, Henry VIII, who appointed Sir Brian Tuke as the first …

Wondering where your post has gone? Royal Mail probed by regulator Ofcom over delivery targets failures – as Unite union threatens strike action Ofcom has launched an investigation into Royal Mail post delivery delays Ofcom is gathering evidence to determine the significance of any breaches  Unite union has warned of potential …

Credit card rates have hit a record high amid soaring inflation which has driven shoppers to borrow to cover living costs. The average annual percentage rate – or “APR” – charge on credit cards has reached 26.6pc this month, the highest since records began in 2006, according to Moneyfacts, a …

Supermarket giant Tesco has announced a major change happening in every single supermarket in the UK. The retailer says the change could potentially save tens-of-thousands of shoppers’ lives. Following in the footsteps of Royal Mail and Travelodge, the supermarket favourite will be encouraging all of its 300,000 UK staff to …

Brad Ashton of RSM UK, a tax firm, said people had been left “between a rock and a hard place” and forced to accept costly charges for taxes that may not in fact be due.  Payment demand letters from Parcelforce, part of the Royal Mail group, said customers must pay …

Royal Mail’s masterplan for Sunday parcel boom: Bosses set to ramp up weekend deliveries in bid to dominate online shopping battleground Bosses have drawn up ‘road map’ that could build its Sunday proposition tenfold Group hails plan a ‘revolution’ similar to the end of Sunday trading restrictions  It would mark …