The Telegraph12 hours agoUsing your iPad or phone abroad? Here’s how to avoid a massive roaming billThe Telegraph - Mattie Brignal,If you are heading to the French slopes for a week’s skiing or the Tunisian coast to soak up the winter sun, the last thing you’ll want on returning home is a mammoth mobile phone bill. Yet this is the frustrating reality for travellers who get stung by confusing rules and weird traps when using …
The Telegraph13 hours agoLabour MPs oppose house building in defiance of Keir Starmer’s fight against NimbysThe Telegraph - Ruby Hinchliffe,Labour MPs are openly lobbying against more homes being built up and down England, despite Sir Keir Starmer’s pledge to side with the builders “not the blockers”. Helen Hayes, MP for Dulwich and West Norwood, lobbied against a development in her constituency for 100pc affordable housing. In an …
The Telegraph12 hours agoHMRC to turn away callers amid struggles to cut waiting timesThe Telegraph - Charlotte Gifford,Taxpayers calling HMRC for help this winter face being told to hang up and go online as it attempts to cut wait times. Only “priority” callers and the “digitally excluded” will be able to speak to a tax adviser on the phone from December 11 until the annual tax return deadline on January …
The Telegraph15 hours agoBBC licence fee loopholes – how to pay lessThe Telegraph - Noah EastwoodIn the age of internet streaming services, Britain’s TV licence fee is a dinosaur - and could face a formal review later this year, as several MPs voiced concerns that it’s “unsustainable”. First introduced in 1928, the levy generates most of the BBC’s income and is used to pay presenters’ salaries …
The Telegraph14 hours agoBanks to be banned from closing branches in areas without cash machineThe Telegraph - James Fitzgerald,Banks will be banned from closing branches unless high streets have a cash machine under City watchdog plans. When considering branch or cash machine closures banks will be forced to review areas where there is limited cash access and report back within eight weeks with plans to provide back-up …
The Telegraph15 hours ago‘I’m in my 80s and the investments I made to pay the grandkids’ uni fees aren’t performing – help’The Telegraph - Victoria ScholarWould you like Victoria to rate your portfolio? Email money@telegraph.co.uk with the subject line: “Rate my portfolio”. Please include a breakdown of your portfolio, your age and what your investing goals are. Full names will not be published. Dear Victoria, I am a worried octogenarian responsible …
