Hi Everybody

I have been on a DMP with MBNA since September and have no reached a 35% partial settlement figure on a credit card debt in excess of £10000 so a deal I am able to pay and happy about. However, although they say (in writing) that the account will be closed and that they...

The main aim here is my parents who are suffering from ill-health have some previous credit card debt. My Dad suffered a major heart attack after a life in the building trade and finds most simple ventures out of the house difficult - though the spirit is still there!

The plan is that I've...

Labour leader Ed Miliband has promised to give councils more powers to ban payday lenders, pawnbrokers and bookmakers from town centres.

Launching his party's local election campaign, he said it would "stand up for those without power" and criticised "extortionate"...

Im getting sick and tired of this vendetta small minded ignorant people have against others who are claiming benifits.

This outrage against benifit claimaints labeling everyone as people who spend their money on booze, fags and bingo is simply because the ones who are furious are listening...

I have been selected for dismissal via redundancy selected via a method of matrix scoring.
My matrix scoring is very wrong and biased, favouritism as gone on with this scoring method.
I am being pushed out of a company; I have worked there for 18 months and my boss who scored the matrix...

Wonga responds to OFT’s payday report

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 7th March 2013 10:41.

Online lender Wonga has agreed with the need for tighter controls in the payday lending sector to “stamp out” the worst practices, in response to...
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I've had a default notice from Yorkshire Water saying they will register a default with CRAs unless an amount exceeding £200 is paid in full by xx March 2013.

There is no water meter here (unlike my previous house) so it's a fixed rate bill based on the rateable value of the house (a 3-bed...

Richard III dig: DNA confirms bones are the King's.

The skeleton is 'beyond reasonable doubt' the remains of Richard III. A skeleton found beneath a Leicester car park has been confirmed as that of English king Richard III.

Experts from the University of Leicester said DNA...

My 131/2 year old has been off colour for the last week. My lovely mobile vet came and examined him, took him for a scan and then did blood tests.
He has liver cancer, nothing can be done, just keep him comfortable and happy.

Two weeks ago he did an hour long walk up hills, through...

I've had a text out of the blue from a company by the above name, asking me to call them and quoting a reference number.

Having done a quick google and also a quick search of this forum, I gather that they are strongly associated with BT. Has anyone had dealings with them on any other kind...

Politicians trapped by public opinion into into crowd-pleasing attacks on banks

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 23rd December 2012 11:01.

Politicians know that bank regulation is too tough but are trapped by public opinion into crowd-pleasing attacks on the...

Credit card debt limit bill in Parliament



A Private Member's Bill introduced into Parliament under the Ten Minute Rule proposes to require credit card companies to discharge a debt when three times the equivalent of the principal sum owed has been paid in interest. The...

Think it's time for me to start looking elsewhere for another job.....

I had students from Hell today; half of them not the slightest bit interested in the vocational course that my new tw@t of a boss has put them on and most are a level below what the course is anyway..... which is nothing...

CBI boss John Cridland calls for PPI payouts deadline

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 12th November 2012 18:28.

A business leader has called for a line to be drawn under the response to the mis-selling of payment protection insurance (PPI). John Cridland, the......

I've just been reading the information about how Charging Orders are going to be easier to get after a CCJ is awarded and wondered if someone could confirm that if your house is owned or mortgaged jointly, but the debt is only in the name of one person, a charging order cant be awarded, only a Restriction?...