y TONY HETHERINGTON: I bought wine with Global Wine Exchange for £6,000 By Published On :: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 12:59:33 +0000 Global Wine Exchange sold me two cases of wine on the promise that they would be sold at a profit. They haven't been sold. GWE then told me that if I bought two more cases, they would sell all four. Full Article
y TONY HETHERINGTON: We're watching you By Published On :: Sat, 22 Feb 2020 23:46:01 +0000 Two South London men awaiting trial on fraud charges have been ordered to hand over £8.6 million. Full Article
y TONY HETHERINGTON: £47k bill for new build with no planning permission By Published On :: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 10:42:13 +0000 In January 2018, my son Michael paid a deposit on an off-plan new build apartment in Smithfield Square, Birmingham. Last year, we discovered that there was still no planning permission. Full Article
y I owe £2,232 in tax but the new Chancellor isn't too bothered: TONY HETHERINGTON investigates By Published On :: Sun, 01 Mar 2020 12:09:25 +0000 I closed my company in March last year. Final corporation tax due stood at £2,232 and I have tried repeatedly to pay this, but now the company is closed, the Revenue just does not accept it. Full Article
y TONY HETHERINGTON: ScottishPower's billing shambles may bankrupt us By Published On :: Sun, 08 Mar 2020 15:11:11 +0000 P.S. writes: I am secretary of a not-for-profit charity. ScottishPower for some reason reduced the utility payments for our premises from £748 a month to just £1. Full Article
y TONY HETHERINGTON: Sorry, Barclays, but I find your requests offensive By Published On :: Mon, 09 Mar 2020 10:11:54 +0000 S.C. writes: I am sending you a request for information I received from Barclays Smart Investor and I wonder whether you find it as offensive as I do. Full Article
y It's worth digging...your PPI claim comes to £2,579 By Published On :: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 10:14:01 +0000 Ms B.M. writes: I had a Barclaycard, and I believe there was PPI automatically included, so I asked a claims company to look into this for me. Full Article
y 'Bulgarian "crypto firm" stole £5,680 from my account': TONY HETHERINGTON investigates By Published On :: Sun, 22 Mar 2020 10:28:27 +0000 I was contacted by Xtraderfx and told that it would transfer my frozen credit balance of £680 to my NatWest credit card. I agreed and gave my card details. Full Article
y TONY HETHERINGTON: A huge payments scam - and Nationwide and Visa should be ashamed By Published On :: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 09:03:28 +0100 I fell for a sales pitch from Easytrade.biz, and now am unable to withdraw any money. I have filled in several withdrawal forms, but it never happenes. Full Article
y TONY HETHERINGTON: Financial Conduct Authority is a disgrace and your £20k loss is proof By Published On :: Mon, 06 Apr 2020 15:43:41 +0100 I looked for a safe investment and came across Wellesley & Co. I received a call, apparently from Wellesley but which turned out to be from a scammer. And I instructed my bank to transfer cash. Full Article
y TONY HETHERINGTON: My uncle pays £492 a year to long dead funeral firm By Published On :: Sun, 12 Apr 2020 09:04:33 +0100 'Going through my 91-year-old uncle's paperwork for him, I found he had signed up for Equitable Lifecare funeral plan in 2016, and has been paying £41 a month - £492 a year - since then.' Full Article
y TONY HETHERINGTON: 'Please help...we just want to stop living in fear of Scottish Power' By Published On :: Sun, 19 Apr 2020 11:34:16 +0100 My account with Scottish Power has been under review by the energy supplier for more than 18 months, as it insists we owe more than £7,000. The company claims we have not paid since 2013 Full Article
y HETHERINGTON: How can my house be using 'industrial' amounts of power? By Published On :: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 07:32:28 +0100 I joined ScottishPower for my electricity in March 2017, paying £190 a month. In March last year, they asked for weekly readings and said I was not paying enough. Full Article
y TONY HETHERINGTON: Your debtor's 800 miles away in Shetland By Published On :: Sun, 03 May 2020 10:55:14 +0100 I have received a letter from Lowell Portfolio, claiming an alleged debt of £599 which it says I owe to PayPal. But I rang PayPal and was told that in fact no money is owed on my account. Full Article
y July sees M&A deals worth $4 bn By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 23:51:00 +0530 Year tally hits $20 bn Full Article
y Ten financial experts give their New Year's resolutions By Published On :: Thu, 02 Jan 2020 17:45:30 +0000 Sir Steve Webb, Director of policy at Royal London:' Check my credit card statement properly. It's so easy to sign up for things on trial, then forget to cancel. Full Article
y ASK TONY: Scrapped New York trip to care for son but refused refund By Published On :: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 09:12:26 +0000 My partner and I booked a short break in New York to celebrate my 50th birthday. At the beginning of August, my son was diagnosed with stage 4 Hodgkin lymphoma blood cancer. Full Article
y ASK TONY: We caught car theft on CCTV but insurer still wouldn't pay out By Published On :: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 09:13:16 +0000 Our leased Range Rover Velar was stolen in October. The police never recovered it because the thieves ripped out its tracker, which was later found thrown in a ditch. Full Article
y ASK TONY: We cancelled our Greek villa but insurer refused to pay the bill By Published On :: Sun, 26 Jan 2020 00:23:43 +0000 My husband and I booked and paid for a villa for a week in Corfu, and invited our four daughters and families to join us at our expense. The villa cost £2,391. We paid £96 for insurance with Get Going. Full Article
y ASK TONY: Santander and PayPal refused to refund stolen £450 By Published On :: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 09:15:45 +0000 Someone has fraudulently opened an account with PayPal using my name. PayPal withdrew £450 from my Santander account. It refunded this, but took it back the following week. Full Article
y ASK TONY: Water torture of our £1,300 bowls club bill By Published On :: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 10:41:37 +0000 I am the treasurer of a 300-year-old bowling club. In October, I received a water bill for £1,335.29 (£1,220.72 actual plus £114.57 estimated). Bills had previously been about £30 per quarter. Full Article
y ASK TONY: STILL waiting for £800 refund after Corsica crash in 2017 By Published On :: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 09:42:44 +0000 My son rented a vehicle in Corsica in July 2017 and was involved in a minor accident which was not his fault. Enterprise Corsica, the car hire firm, has not repaid his €950 excess. Full Article
y ASK TONY: Scammers stole £3k but Tesco said I was too late to complain By Published On :: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 15:21:01 +0000 I was contacted regarding potential fraudulent activity on my Tesco Mastercard in early October 2019. In total, £3,700.20 of illicit transactions were refunded. Full Article
y ASK TONY: TalkTalk won't let me cancel my care home dad's phone bill By Published On :: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 09:27:07 +0000 My father, 92, was admitted to a dementia care home last September. I have Lasting Power of Attorney. I rang TalkTalk to cancel his account but they refused because I wasn't the account holder. Full Article
y ASK TONY: TSB - The bank that said 'NO' to my frail 86-year-old mother By Published On :: Wed, 04 Mar 2020 11:12:21 +0000 I took my mother to a TSB branch to open an account because she has been told she can no longer receive her state pension via the Post Office. We took several documents showing her address. Full Article
y Tony Hazell: Why I WON'T sell in the coronavirus panic By Published On :: Wed, 04 Mar 2020 14:29:42 +0000 It's been a sobering week for investors. As someone who has been investing for more than 30 years, I have drawn on all my experience to sit on my hands and do very little. Full Article
y ASK TONY: I was banking on my Isa to buy a house but Skipton closed it By Published On :: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 12:42:07 +0000 I opened a Lifetime Isa (Lisa) with Skipton on June 27, 2017. I recently tried to pay into it, but discovered Skipton had closed it on September 16 last year. Full Article
y ASK TONY: Travel agent pocketed £225 of our China holiday refund By Published On :: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 10:22:32 +0000 Last July, my wife, daughter and I used travel agent Carlton Leisure to book flights to Beijing with British Airways, returning via Hong Kong, with an internal flight between there and Chengdu. Full Article
y ASK TONY: I was scammed out of £170, so why isn't PayPal paying up? By Published On :: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 09:29:37 +0000 I received two texts from PayPal in the early hours of August 6 about a suspicious transaction. It was for £170.94 to a company called Zalando SE. I replied at 10.21am to say it was unauthorised. Full Article
y ASK TONY: We waited two weeks for Morrisons order, then RBS blocked it By Published On :: Wed, 01 Apr 2020 09:21:22 +0100 My wife and I received a message from our bank saying there had been an 'unusual' request for payment on our account and it had declined to pay it. The payment was to Morrisons. Full Article
y ASK TONY: Husband's birthday Beatles treat fell victim to coronavirus By Published On :: Wed, 08 Apr 2020 09:25:20 +0100 For my husband's 50th birthday I booked an apartment in Liverpool via Booking.com. He wanted to see all The Beatles memorabilia and we had tickets to see the tribute band. Full Article
y ASK TONY: Metro bank froze my account and it has £30,000 stuck in it! By Published On :: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 09:02:30 +0100 Despite my repeated calls and a letter to Metro Bank's chief executive, it was almost a month before it wrote back asking for proof of address and details of my travel for the past 6 months. Full Article
y ASK TONY: Why was hard-up son charged £51 to delay car loan payments By Published On :: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 09:12:18 +0100 My son has been laid off due to the coronavirus, so he contacted Suzuki Finance to arrange a one-month payment holiday. It agreed to this, but said it will charge him £51 for this month. Full Article
y £186 vanished after my Wayfair account was hacked: ASK TONY By Published On :: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 18:15:54 +0100 The homewares website Wayfair emailed to inform me my account details, including had been changed. I tried to check my account but my password had been changed. Full Article
y ASK TONY:I got a £994 bill... years after I left my student digs By Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 09:26:18 +0100 In June 2014 I moved out of a student house I had been living in for two years while at university. The accounts were in my name. We always paid the full amount of our energy bill on time. Full Article
y Big B not hosting any political event: Abhishek Bachchan By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Wed, 25 May 2016 20:15:00 +0530 However, there are reports that R Madhavan, and not Amitabh Bachchan, would be hosting the event Full Article
y Report Card: India's Economy after two years of Modi Government By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Wed, 25 May 2016 23:47:00 +0530 Tracking India's Economic vitals, as Modi Government completes two years Full Article
y Piyush Goyal: Work, ideas and targets By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Thu, 26 May 2016 00:31:00 +0530 An articulate ex-banker and a chartered accountant by training, Goyal is particular about numbers Full Article
y Suresh Prabhu: Two years of mixed performance By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Thu, 26 May 2016 00:34:00 +0530 Cut to 2016 and the narrative has shifted to high-speed trains, Wi-Fi broadband services at stations and use of social media to improve passenger amenities Full Article
y Arun Jaitley: Keeping reform process on By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Thu, 26 May 2016 00:35:00 +0530 Two years into the government's five-year mandate, Jaitley has proven to be one of its most reformist voices Full Article
y Modi Govt @ 2: A roller-coaster ride with civil society, academia and media By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Thu, 26 May 2016 00:35:00 +0530 These two years have been about the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP's) civil society versus the others. Entrenching the first in the heart of policy making and atmosphere-building eco-systems has gone hand-in-hand with controlling the dissent of ... Full Article
y Modi to address rally in UP; BJP plans outreach programme on two-year rule By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Thu, 26 May 2016 09:45:00 +0530 The party on Wednesday released seven handouts on the government's achievements in the past two years in various fields Full Article
y Two years of Narendra Modi's foreign policy: more misses than hits By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Thu, 26 May 2016 11:27:00 +0530 Two years of Modi's foreign policy can be best remembered for its flip-flops on Pakistan and the PM's blockbuster speeches to delirious non-resident communities and the grand receptions he has received in several countries Full Article
y Modi government a failure on many fronts, says Shiv Sena on anniversary By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Thu, 26 May 2016 13:02:00 +0530 Sena also took a dig at the Prime Minister over his frequent foreign trips Full Article
y Two years of Modi government: What kind of celebrations are on the cards? By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Thu, 26 May 2016 13:45:00 +0530 From rallies, press conferences in over 150 cities to holding a star-studded evening, a look at what the fortnight-long celebrations will have Full Article
y NDA has failed in key areas like economy: Muniyappa By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Thu, 26 May 2016 13:57:00 +0530 The former union minister said "only achievement" of NDA govt was changing names of UPA schemes Full Article
y Two years of Modi government @Facebook By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Thu, 26 May 2016 14:54:00 +0530 The PM has had 179 million interactions in the last two years; his cabinet ministers too have taken a lot to the social media platform Full Article
y FDI in food processing may cross $1 billion in next 2 yrs: Harsimrat Kaur Badal By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Thu, 26 May 2016 16:30:00 +0530 The government has announced 100% FDI in marketing of food products produced and processed in India in the Budget Full Article
y Congress questions the 'achievements' of two years of Modi govt By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Fri, 27 May 2016 00:30:00 +0530 The political party asks, 'kiska saath, kiska vikaas?' Full Article
y Development only way to empower the poor, says Modi By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Fri, 27 May 2016 00:33:00 +0530 He said the the government was caste- and religion-neutral Full Article