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Sam Meadows

Senior Personal Finance Reporter at The Daily Telegraph - Telegraph.co.uk

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Sam Meadows
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Electric car drivers are only £100 better off after three years than if they buy fuel version

Analysis by Halfords found that, while electric vehicles are more expensive to buy than fuel equivalents, drivers would still make a saving
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Summer-born children disproportionately labelled as having special ...

The study from LSE found that, across boys and girls, a higher proportion of summer-born children were categorised as needing more support
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Motorists hit by biggest annual petrol price hike in nearly a decade

A lack of drivers on the road during the pandemic coupled with the rising underlying cost of oil has meant forecourts are under pressure
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Wider chairs and guaranteed tables: what £15 ‘middle class’ rail tr...

Avanti West Coast has launched its ‘standard premium’ class initially as an upgrade with prices starting at £15 for Birmingham to London
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Major retailers promise not to ditch cash as shoppers are turned away

Asda, John Lewis and Waitrose are among the shops to make the pledge
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Fake NHS Covid apps among scams driving huge increase in fraud take...

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has removed more scams from the internet last year than in the previous three years combined
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Parents should start paying more into their pensions when kids leav...

Paying in more than the minimum amount can make a major difference to the size of a pension pot at retirement

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Drones to deliver post to Britain’s remote islands to deal with bad...

Royal Mail is this week trialling its first scheduled drone flights delivering mail from the mainland to the Isles of Scilly
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Grieving families risk rip off because of secretive funeral pricing

Around a quarter of funeral directors did not display prices on their website, Which? found
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Online platforms exposing users to ‘avalanche of scams’

A consumer coalition is calling on the Government to use the Online Harms bill to hold firms like Facebook and Google accountable
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Call centres use pandemic as an excuse for leaving us on hold

The amount of time broadband and landline customers spent waiting for customer service queries to be answered doubled in 2020
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Gas shortage risks al fresco diners feeling the cold

Calor warned of ‘sporadic shortages’ caused by prolonged lockdowns and warm weather
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‘My bank told me I was too professional to fall victim to a scam – ...

Which?, the consumer group, has claimed banks are ‘victim blaming’ to avoid paying refunds to fraud victims
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Supermarket security guards to be armed with forensic spray to dete...

The Co-op will be the first to introduce it but insisted it is meant as a deterrent and would only be used in ‘extreme’ cases
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Houses being sold above asking price in stamp duty holiday dash

The proportion of homes going for more than the original price has hit a seven year high, according to estate agents
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Scammers could dupe young people with fake Covid passports

Consumer experts said that criminals have exploited every aspect of the pandemic and that this would be no different
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Surge in romance fraudsters blackmailing young men

Social media users are being targeted during the pandemic, with some tricked into performing lewd acts via webcam and then being extorted
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Families go all out for Easter celebration, with trees, baubles, sp...

Christmas-style decorations and Nordic bunny elves fly off the shelves as Britain adds a festive feel to the easing of lockdown
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Biggest milk delivery service in UK to stop phone payments despite ...

Milk and More will go online only later this month in a move which has angered some customers who do not use the internet
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‘I was tricked into spending £8,850 on a caravan that didn’t exist’

Major banks have warned that fraudsters will capitalise on the lifting of lockdown restrictions with holiday scams a major threat
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Social media influencers to be named and shamed for failing to disc...

Online celebrites can make thousands of pounds promoting products on their pages, but regulators are planning a purge on plugging