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Imagine this. You make your living burgling homes and apartments. Together with your friends, you are pondering an easier way to carry out your crime.
If only there were some way to find out which young, affluent professionals were away from home on any given evening…
Oh, wait! There is! It’s called Facebook… or Twitter, or Foursquare, or any number of ways that über-connected (but none too wise) social media darlings can let you know exactly where they are at any time.
In the UK, we spend a collective £19.5bn a year on insurance. So it might surprise you to learn just how much confusion seems to surround the subject. The Association of British Insurers has come up with a list of insurance myths – and we’ve checked them out to find out where the truth really lies.
Read our piece to bust some common misapprehensions about when our policy covers us – and when we really should be giving our insurers more information.
Even if you’re not shelling out an estimated £1,100-a-ticket for the 2010 World Cup Final, this month’s football fever could still bring you some unexpected expenses.
The following might make you consider that there might be worse football-related disasters than England not making it to the final…
You see, there are a lot of ways the world’s most-watched sporting event can lead to mishaps, mayhem and frankly bizarre insurance claims. Here are eight typical World Cup disasters, and how to avoid them (or at least make sure you’re protected against them)…
Home insurance is an absolute must, but also a potentially large expense. We guide you through the benefits of the right policy, the pitfalls of the wrong one, and find you some of the latest great offers. Read our latest guide – to home insurance.
Apparently it’s summer, although you wouldn’t think it with the weather we are having! And although the weather may not cheer you up, this insurance offer from Tesco just might… Tesco Personal Finance is offering you half price home insurance as one of a number of summer discounts*. What’s on offer? When you get a [...]
With every penny counting these days, more of us are trying to cut back on our outgoings. Though this is a very sensible idea, but things are so bad, that many of us planning to ditch our insurance policies! More than one million of us have said that we will be reducing the amount of [...]
