2020

Secondary ticket seller StubHub is now warning people that tickets bought on its site "may not get them into an event", after action from the competition watchdog.

Holidaymakers returning from Croatia and Austria from Saturday will be forced to quarantine for 14 days, with the Foreign Office also now advising against all non-essential travel there due to coronavirus. However, restrictions for Portugal are being lifted at the same time – travellers returning from Saturday will no longer need to quarantine.

Holidaymakers who return from France are now forced to quarantine for 14 days and the Foreign Office is now advising against all non-essential travel there due to coronavirus, in a move which will throw 100,000s of Brits' holiday plans into confusion. The same restrictions are also being put in place for the Netherlands, Malta, Monaco, the Turks and Caicos Islands and Aruba.

Commuters across Great Britain could see rail season ticket prices rise by up to 1.6% from next year, despite people being urged to return to workplaces.

Holidaymakers returning from Spain must self-isolate for 14 days after the Government reimposed quarantine rules aimed at stopping the spread of coronavirus on 26 July 2020. The Government's now also warning against all non-essential travel to Spain – including the Canary Islands and Balearic Islands – in a move which will affect 100,000s of Brits' summer holiday plans.

Monzo has topped the latest official banking service league table, narrowly beating Starling Bank, while Tesco Bank took the wooden spoon.

Morrisons will remove all plastic 'bags for life' from its checkouts and replace them with large paper bags if a trial is successful.

Student loan interest rates will rise for many students and graduates from Tuesday 1 September, the Department for Education has announced. But repayment thresholds – which set the minimum annual salary at which graduates start repaying their student loan – will also rise by hundreds of pounds from next April. 

Energy supplier Bulb has paid out £1.76 million in refunds and compensation after overcharging customers, blocking switches and wrongly removing vulnerable customers from the Priority Services Register.

The competition watchdog has said the funeral market must be reformed after its investigation of the sector found high fees and "unacceptably low levels of care" – but it's warned it can't push ahead with major reforms, including caps on prices during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.