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In 2017, I cancelled my Sky television and broadband. I was told not to cancel the direct debit because we would owe money during the switchover period. We returned the Sky box in November that year -but Sky didn’t stop taking the money, and I failed to notice until recently …

TONY HETHERINGTON has a word in the ear of the Post Office and company caves in over travel insurance By Tony Hetherington, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:58, 11 July 2020 | Updated: 21:58, 11 July 2020 Tony Hetherington is Financial Mail on Sunday’s ace investigator, fighting readers corners, revealing …

Since theme park giant Alton Towers reopened a few weeks ago, it’s been bringing magic back to the lives of many. Things are very different at the theme park now – with changes such as social distancing and compulsory face masks on rides – but park visitors aren’t letting it …

One in 10 Britons has signed up to a subscription service during lockdown, with companies offering regular deliveries of food and drink reporting a huge spike in the customer numbers. Companies offering gin, cheese and coffee subscriptions have all reported big increases in customer numbers, as consumers unable to get …

ALEX BRUMMER: Chancellor Rishi Sunak will have to make the most of limited fiscal capacity if a jobs catastrophe is to be averted  There are 9m employees on furlough  The formal data we have so far on the Covid-19 shows a peak to trough fall of a whopping 25 per …

Tesco shareholders inflict one of the biggest-ever FTSE 100 pay revolts on the supermarket group By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 22:09, 26 June 2020 | Updated: 22:33, 26 June 2020 Tesco shareholders inflicted one of the biggest-ever FTSE 100 pay revolts on the supermarket group yesterday.  More …

When it comes to bailing out firms affected by Covid-19, Rishi Sunak is no pushover. As someone who spent much of his pre-Commons career in private equity, the Chancellor has a good grip on likely survival candidates, and will be keen to make sure all private sector options have been …

STOCK WATCH: Will Redknapp help broker Dowgate keep its eye on the ball? By Jamie Nimmo For The Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 22:31, 20 June 2020 | Updated: 22:31, 20 June 2020 Stockbrokers have come under pressure in the coronavirus crisis as deals have dried up. Smaller stockbrokers such …

Back in 1909, Louis Bleriot piloted the first flight across the Channel, making history – and winning a £1,000 prize from this newspaper. That same year, the Straits Mortgage and Trust was set up to finance the Malaysian rubber industry. Today that investment trust, now known as Scottish Mortgage, is …

Online shopping used to be so simple and convenient.  You could have anything you wished for delivered to your door at the touch of a button – often within 24 hours. Not in? No sweat. The driver would happily leave your parcel with a friendly neighbour for safekeeping. Soaring demand: …