The £! The rocket in your pocket at 1.09
As some pilots flap around over more pay for their 90-hour month and flight computers crash-land for summer … once again the great British getaway to the sun is being tripped up by things...
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Slovakia moves to end worries of UK ex-pats living in the Little Big Country
As the United Kingdom claws its way through the rubble that Brexit is becoming, more and more countries across the European Union are telling British ex-pats that life will go on as normal. The...
Ectomorphs of the World Unite – this really isn’t just another tall tale!
Quite rightly in this world, we cannot discriminate against people on the basis of race, creed, religion, disability, sex, age etc etc… but do you know who we can discriminate against with impunity? Tall...
The cock-up and ‘bull’ story of HSBC and Aviva in Espania…
QUESTION: My wife and I set off on an extended break in Europe on June 11, 2017, intending to return to the UK in mid to late September. Before we went we called...
The Tyrant of Torrevieja?
Holiday letting boss who says he will ‘fine’ you if you make a noise after 11pm An English holiday home owner on the Costa Blanca who lets his three-storey villa out to families across...
How we can ALL make world hackers catch a hi-tech cold
Bedroom cyber expert Marcus Hutchins is being described as a hero for his role in stopping the global cyber virus which hit more than 200,000 companies and organisations in 150 countries around the world....
Take control, for there are no exit signs on the highways of depression
Shawn Peacock, aged 40, says he has spent the last two decades ‘on the road’ because keeping on moving is the only way he can feel safe… I absolutely hate suffering from depression and...
WILL I HAVE THE STRENGTH TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAY?
Film-maker Louis Frost has asked the Consumer Watch Foundation to share his very personal video, One Day, about his battle with depression … it is a harrowing documentation of desperation and, ultimately, of hope...
May Day! May Day! But are EU ex-pats really in danger of mass expulsions?
About 30 Conservative MPs are expected to vote to give three million EU nationals the right to stay in Britain after Brexit. After the defeat in the House of Lords on the Brexit Bill...
Tangled web of trying to get warm homes discount
CWF reader and radio freelance Michael Bradbrook conducted his own investigation into utility firms and the way they handle the Government’s warm homes scheme … I have always wondered how the Home Warm Discount...
