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When fuel prices reached record highs last summer, the cost of filling up the average 55-litre family car rose to £105 for petrol and £109 for diesel

According to MoneyFacts.co.uk, the average two year fixed for a fixed rate today was 6.66% - which is 0.1 percentage point higher then the peak the UK saw after the Mini-Budget

Wetherspoon announced last year that it was planning on closing around 32 of its sites, before announcing that there would be further closures on top of that

Residents living in Basingstoke and Deane can claim support cash of up to £1,000 through the council's 2023-24 Cost of Living Assistance Fund

The cost of running a car has been widely reported on over the last year with the cost of petrol and diesel reaching record highs in the summer of 2022

Last year, former Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries announced that the fee would be frozen for two years, before rising in 2024 - with inflation this rise could take to price from £159 to £172

The charter is intended to help millions of homeowners who are facing a huge jump in monthly mortgage repayments because of rising interest rates after the Bank of England upped rates to 5% last month

With housing, both mortgage and rental payments, going through the roof many may consider moving in with their significant other as a way of reducing costs

The vast majority of households opt for a repayment loan on their mortgage where you pay back the loan itself and the interest on top - however some opt for interest-only

The Money Saving Expert website posted an article today which highlighted Ofgem's new request for energy suppliers to publish details about all of their energy tariffs

The DWP is giving out five different payments, three cost of living payments totalling £900, one disability cost of living payment of £150, and one pensioner cost of living worth up to £300

Trespass, which opened its first retail stores in the 1990s after first establishing itself way back in the 1930s, now has more than 300 stores worldwide - the chain has around 200 in the UK

The Ford Fiesta model was named the best-selling car in Britain for 12 years in a row from 2009 to 2020 and it had around 1.5million registered keepers on record in 2022

Bosses at some of the UK's biggest banks, Lloyds, HSBC, NatWest and Barclays are to face questions by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) this week on the speed it passes on the rate rises to savers

Last month, the Bank of England hiked rates by 0.5 percentage points to 5% which left a lot of mortgage holders worried and caused many homeowners struggling the costs

New Look saw a string of closures earlier this year which saw its sites in Birmingham, Coventry, Trowbridge, Kirkcaldy, Walthamstow and Northampton shut their doors for good

UK banks can close accounts if they believe it is linked to illegal activities, fails the contract terms, or has bad credit - but how do banks know which accounts to close?

Sainsbury's has announced its latest move in the battle against plastic waste and it once again impacts a popular meat product

Nathanial, 29, from Kingston Upon Thames, always loved gardening and last year he decided to make it his full time job over the summer months

Iceland announced earlier this year that it was to shut down several of its sites and at the end of September the overall number of sites closed could reach 17

The reintroduction of Ofgem's price cap has prompted some suppliers to bring back cheaper fixed deals -most of them for existing customers - which disappeared following the energy crisis

The story was shared in this week's MoneySavingExpert newsletter which focused on ways you can cut your household bills

The coin the father of four found was the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games coin which featured an image of the Commonwealth Youth Games Mascot, Tosha the Cat and the official logo of the games

The supermarket has been crowned the cheapest for 13 consecutive months as part of the monthly Which? price comparison - so which store took the crown?

Although the majority of schools have yet to even break up for the summer, many parents are thinking about the cost of uniforms for the next school year