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Payzone wins contract with National Express Coach Print 24th May 2021 Payzone has signed a long-term contract with National Express Coach to provide coach ticketing services at its stores across the UK. Credit: Spar Tremadog National Express is the largest operator of scheduled coach services in the UK, providing more than 21 million journeys in 2019. The contract award marks another milestone for the combined Post Office and Payzone networks, following the success of tie-ups with British Gas,...

The price of the leading cryptocurrency fell as low as $31,180 on Sunday evening - down 52 per cent on the $64,829 it reached in mid-April.

The UK’s official inflation figure more than doubled to 1.5 per cent in April, it emerged this week, as the stronger than expected recovery continued to push up the cost of living. Meanwhile, as we discussed on last week’s podcast, a wave of demand is meeting a shortage of supply for some items, sparking fears of an inflationary spike. But while this is bad news for the pound in your pocket – which will buy less – and for savers, who will see their measly interest rates fail to keep up ...

Long-standing Barclaycard customer Mark Gough was told his credit card limit would be cut by £12,000, even though his income hadnt changed. However, the bank changed its mind after he complained.

It could be time to raid those piggy banks and check under the sofa, with four circulating 2019 10p coins that are rarer than most selling for more than a 100 times face value online. The coins, which depict an A-Z of what makes Britain great, are the second such batch after the launch of the series in 2018 by the Royal Mint. However, the 2019 set has a smaller mintage figure with some struck just 63,000 times, making them three times rarer than the fabled Kew Gardens 50p coin that can now sell...

Holidays abroad are back on… or are they? The much-heralded green list proved to be something of a damp squib, with the only popular British holiday destination on there being Portugal. There was no place for Greece, France, Spain, Italy, the US, or other regular stars in the list of Britons’ favourite travel spots. Some rushed to book trips to Portugal, but travel giant Tui reported this week that holidaymakers are cancelling and delaying bookings and rival On The Beach scrapped all its su...

Richard Hunter and Simon Lambert delve into the big name banks, how they differ, and the challenges and opportunities they face.

Published: 12 May 2021 The introduction of the Lifetime Skills Guarantee, announced in the Queens Speech yesterday (11 May), has been broadly welcomed although there are concerns it will not do enough to protect young women left vulnerable after the pandemic. The much-anticipated Lifetime Skills Guarantee will offer every UK adult access to a flexible loan for higher-level education. Steve Collinson, HR director at Zurich UK, said the announcement of a skil...

Our homes are crammed full of untapped treasure. Mountains of multimedia gathering dust, unloved designer clothes and furniture that has seen better days. Many of us are guilty of over-consuming and simply throw out unwanted junk in the bin, a skip or at the tip, wasting hundreds - if not thousands - of pounds each year in the process. Its bad for your wallet and the environment. So, its time to fight back, sell it and free up that cash. In our new book Never Go Broke: How To Make Money Out Of ...

This week saw the launch of new book - Never Go Broke: How To Make Money Out Of Just About Anything, co-written by This is Money personal finance editor Lee Boyce. In this podcast special, Lee is joined from Los Angeles by his co-author, Storage Hunters TV star Jesse McClure, to explain all to Georgie Frost and Simon Lambert. Jesse and lee discuss how they met, how the book was created, and their three step approach to putting more money in your pocket with a little bit of entrepreneurial endea...