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Men spend 55% more than women 'on the side'
Despite the fact that household budgets are being stretched further, men and women across the UK are spending in secret from their partners, new research from Fairinvestment.co.uk has found; and men are the worst culprits.
Save a bundle in the mobile and broadband jungle
Broadband bills have decreased by 13.9 per cent in the past 12 months according to figures from moneysupermarket.com, but many people are still paying over the odds for this and their mobile phones.
uSwitch.com: BizzEnergy going into administration
Tim Wolfenden, Head of Business Services at uSwitch.com, comments on the effects of small business energy provider BizzEnergy going into administration: "It's very disappointing to see another small business energy provider, BizzEnergy, going out of business as this type of company is crucial in driving competition in the small and medium enterprise (SME) market place.
Ghost of Christmas past continues to haunt cash-strapped Brits
With rising bills and lower disposable incomes, nearly 1 in 4 (24%) Brits are still paying off credit costs from last Christmas.
Savers look forward to a simple Christmas as festivities get frugal
This Christmas is set to be a far simpler affair for British families, as they rein in their spending. New research from Birmingham Midshires, a leading direct savings provider in the UK, reveals that 78 per cent of Britons are taking sensible steps to make Christmas more affordable this year.
Criminal files
Innocent people are being accused of illegal file-sharing and threatened with high fines and court action by games manufacturers seeking to protect copyright, according to a Which? Computing investigation.
PayPal giving away £10,000 a week for ten weeks
PayPal is giving away £10,000 a week for 10 weeks running up to Christmas to celebrate its 10th anniversary. Anyone who buys from a retailer on PayPal's shopping website, paypal.co.uk/offers, and pays with PayPal, will be entered automatically in the weekly draw. (Terms apply.)
Energy suppliers pay for price hikes as customer satisfaction drops
The big six energy suppliers have seen an 8% drop in customer satisfaction levels since last year, according to the latest independent Customer Satisfaction Report from uSwitch.com. As a result, 41% of customers are not satisfied with suppliers today, compared with a third - 33% - in October 2007.
Brits go green to save the pennies
Never mind going green to save the planet, two in five Brits, 41%, admit to telling their friends they are being environmentally friendly, but secretly they are doing so to save money, according to new research from Legal & General.
Santa’s still coming to town – but with a smaller sack
Over one-third of UK consumers don’t plan to curb their spending this Christmas and of those that do, most will not cut back by more than £150, according to research by compareandsave.com.
Brits search for home safes and sewing classes
Google has revealed some surprising changes in what the British public are searching for online. The data come from Insights for Search, a free Google tool that analyses a portion of Google searches to compute how many searches have been done for a term relative to the total number of searches done on Google over time.
Economic recession impacts broadband ISP migration
The results of ISPreview.co.uk's most recent survey, which asked UK Internet users whether the difficult economic climate had caused them to be more or less likely to switch to a cheaper broadband provider, reveals that nearly one quarter (24 per cent) were more likely to migrate than before the problems began and just over 11 per cent had already switched because of it.
Fancy a splash of very Old Spice?
Millions of men are hanging on to bottles of aftershave bought a decade ago as they 'scents' a way to save their pennies during the credit crunch, with around a quarter of all Brits surveyed (23 per cent) spending less now on all fragrances than they were six months ago, new research shows.
Argos shopper pay 222.7% APR through Provident personal credit
To celebrate the start of the Christmas shopping season, trusted high street brand Argos rides the ‘sub-prime' band wagon with Provident Personal Credit, offering consumers the ‘Easy Shop Card'.
Sinister new twist to prize draw scams
The OFT is warning consumers about a sinister new twist to prize draw scams in which the victims are unwittingly being used to help defraud others.