I’m in the middle of filming a Tonight with Trevor on Payment Protection Insurance for loans. Historically many have got this insurance without realising it, because they’ve no idea how much a loan should actually cost, and it adds thousands to loan costs (see cheapest loans article). It’s not surprising really as it is hugely difficult to...

Been filming for Tonight with Trev today for next Friday’s programme on payment protection insurance. As part of it Tonight asked me to do an open ‘Loanbuster’ clinic, based at the Plaza shopping centre in London. Yet as it was meant to be me meeting people who wanted help, it was a bit of surprise that there...

It’s 7.20am, which regular readers of the blog will know isn’t a time I’m usually awake. I’m a night person. I’m sitting in my living room, with the ITV overnight team broadcast truck crew and the Ashes on the TV. Yesterday I got a call from GMTV asking if I’d go in to talk about the cost...

Flying back from holiday, three girls sitting next to and behind us on the plane were talking. One was joking about how awful her credit card debts were now after the holidays and that she never seemed to get anywhere paying of her debts. Wonderfully, the other two, instantly said “you need to do a balance transfer,...