Bad weather in recent years and cuts to local government budgets are being blamed by campaign groups for an ever increasing number of potholes on the UK roads. The Asphalt Alliance claims that £10.5 billion would be needed to bring the UK's roads ...
A family hiring a standard family car in Malaga, over the Easter week, could hand over an additional £352* at the rental desk when picking their car up. Purchasing excess car hire insurance (at £130), extra driver's cover (at £74), a child's ...
Skiing can be a very pricy holiday by the time all the added extras are factored in. The Sunday Express (2 December 2012) looked at just this topic and gave advice on how to 'Take the Edge off Ski Holiday Costs'.
The conditions when booking a hire car for skiing are not dissimilar to the condition when skiing in a blizzard as both offer poor visibility and a lack of transparency. Extra and often hidden charges can range from snow chains, which can cost u...
It reported that the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) was forcing car hire companies to amend their policy pricing after it deemed that adverts which "lured" customers in with cheap lead-in rates, then hit them with extra charges at th...
