The average rate on a new two-year fixed mortgage has edged closer to the 6% threshold, as Nationwide became the latest big lender to push through a significant increase in…
Broadband and mobile phone companies are to be banned from advertising “misleading” fixed-price contracts that fail to warn consumers that they face hefty mid-contract price increases. Over the past year,…
In January I signed a two-year broadband deal with Vodafone at £58 a month. There was a lot of publicity about in-contract price rises, and so I was reassured by…
James, 34, a marketing manager from Hove, remembers the weeks after his son Jude was born in spring last year mostly as a blur. “I had two weeks off, which…
Almost a third of fathers took no paternity leave after the birth of their child, as a result of the UK’s “measly” paternity leave rights, according to research. Two decades…