August 2018

A number of major banks including HSBC, First Direct and Tesco have already raised mortgage rates after yesterday's base rate rise but have kept quiet on whether to pass on the increase for savers, MoneySavingExpert.com has found.

The Bank of England has raised the base rate from 0.5% to 0.75% - only the second rise in over a decade. Here's what it means for your finances, including the very latest on how individual banks' mortgage and savings rates are changing.

Some customers who previously switched away from energy firm Iresa have been wrongly told their supply will soon move to Octopus Energy following Iresa's collapse - if you've been contacted in error, here's what to do.

United Utilities has called off its planned hosepipe ban, which was due to affect millions of customers in the north west of England this weekend.

Gatwick Express has been told to stop claiming its trains get to Victoria "in just 30 minutes" in adverts - unless it can actually achieve that journey time in most cases.

Students who missed out on teaching time during university strikes earlier this year are trying to get compensation, with more than 5,000 signing up to a proposed group legal action and hundreds more filing individual claims.