I moved home last August and kept my TalkTalk account. An engineer came to set it up, but he put the main socket in my spare bedroom along with the broadband router. I'm supposed to keep it there, which means I have to run upstairs every time the phone rings. I am nearly 70.

The Bank of England has raised the amount each saver can receive from the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) to £85,000 per person per licensed bank or building society.

After viewing the pretty four- bedroom Georgian town house overlooking the seafront, Christabel Smith and her husband Jonathan felt they had found their dream home. However, their joy at moving into the house in Ramgsgate, Kent, in December 2015 soon turned to despair. Within weeks the boiler packed up and replacing it would cost nearly £3,000.

My wife is a recently retired schoolteacher and now receives her teacher's pension. She also has a private pension that she has paid into for many years. She is still contributing less than £10,000 a year and has not drawn anything from it to date. Will she be affected by the new £4,000 a year limit? Steve Webb, This Is Money's pension Agony Uncle, replies.

How would you feel if you could get an interest rate of up to 6.5 per cent on your savings, and help businesses in your community to prosper at the same time? That is the premise behind Folk2Folk, a Cornwall-based peer-to peer-firm that gives lenders the option to back local firms with their cash. Here we look at the benefits and the risks of investing in this way.

The final Phantom is an extended wheelbase car with a nautical theme created for a 'renowned contemporary Rolls-Royce collector'. With 1930s ocean liners etched into the interior wood panels, sea-coloured paint and hand-cut lambswool carpets mimicking a wake among the features on the car, pictured, send-offs don't get much more flamboyant than this.

John Tubbrit and his family are regularly stuck with broadband speeds of 2Mbp/s or less, leaving them rarely able to use the internet for anything other than very basic web browsing. When they bought the house they were told there wouldn't be a problem with internet speeds. Pictured: John's daughter, Nicole.

The Royal Mint, in South Wales, has opened a £9m visitor centre. It's a treasury trove of history and I think it is one of the most interesting visitor attractions in Britain. I learnt about Isaac Newton being Master of the Mint, how coins are made in German machinery and about pickling - pickling coins that is.

More than two million cars were purchased on finance in the UK last year, but a third of buyers could be paying tens of thousands of pounds more than others due to poor credit scores. Credit check firm Clearscore compared the cost of finance on Top Gear's ten hottest cars for a buyer getting a standard 5.9 per cent interest rate and a poor credit borrower paying 32 per cent interest - with the gap costing upwards of £14,000 over five years.

Rising wholesale energy prices have added £121 to the average gas and electricity bill over the past eight months, according to Energy Helpline. But could you save hundreds of pounds a year on your energy bills and save time shopping around for the best deal through the power of collective bargaining?

The year is barely a month old but the withdrawal of banks from the high street has escalated to a level never witnessed before and 2017 is set to be a record year in terms of branch closures.

Junior Individual Savings Accounts (Jisas) are great for building a tax-free nest egg for children. But if your child's money is languishing in a poor paying account or is being eroded by fund charges, it could be time to move. Here, The Mail on Sunday looks at the options available.

Rumours of a tie-up with a US rival helped British engineer WS Atkins build a 6 per cent rise to its share price yesterday. It followed a report that American firm CH2M - which is involved in Britain's new High Speed Two rail line - had approached bosses at WS Atkins about a possible £3.4 billion merger. The companies have worked together on a string of projects, including the Thames Tideway Tunnel and the 2012 London Olympics. If it went ahead, a merger would create a global engineering giant responsible for 43,000 workers.

Small investors in Disneyland Paris have declared war on Walt Disney and are demanding the return of £790 million. Activist hedge fund CIAM is leading a group that claims the theme park has been crippled by grossly inflated license and royalty fees. They say Walt Disney has siphoned cash to force Euro Disney into a loss every year for the past 15 years - despite the resort boasting 15 million annual visitors.

Gold is still 30 per cent off its all-time dollar high, but for some investors it retains an enduring appeal. Adrian Ash, of BullionVault, joins the Investing Show, to explain who is buying, why they buy and look at the gold price's prospects.

Midas takes a new look at the Dogs of the Footsie, the experimental portfolio that tracks the ten highest-yielding stocks in the FTSE 100 index. Back in July, Theresa May had just become Prime Minister and most economists thought that the UK was heading for economic misery, following the Brexit vote a few weeks earlier. Since then, Britain has confounded expectations, powering ahead to become the fastest-growing economy among the G7 countries last year

Demand for home delivery of groceries is soaring, with sales up 29 per cent last year. Here, The Mail on Sunday looks at how you can keep delivery costs to a minimum while analysing some of the more bespoke - and traditional - delivery services available. The online grocery shopping revolution has been driven by the high street supermarket.

Customers can choose between either speeds of up to 17Mb or 36Mb and pick between 12, 18 and 24 months fixed contracts. But the deal will still allow them to switch to a better deal with the provider if they see one mid-contract.

This week's motoring news was dominated by Euro NCAP's latest crash test results with Ford's iconic Mustang receiving a lowly two-star rating. So why did the V8 sportscar rate so badly? RAY MASSEY reviews the results and discusses everything four-wheeled from the last seven days.

Retirement incomes remain below the peak of £18,700 at the start of 2008, before the financial crisis fully hit home and low interest rates slashed annuity and savings income. Prudential research also found that 45 per cent of retirees felt financially unprepared to stop work, a number that has barely changed over the past decade despite huge changes to pensions.

Just look at it. Gobsmacked? Wait until you see the £834k price tag. This is the latest reborn E-Type from British manufacturer Eagle, called the Spyder GT. And it is nothing short of glorious. Want one? So do we.

Banks at the moment pay 30p to independent cash machine providers each time one of their current account customers withdraws cash from a non-bank ATM. Some account providers are threatening to pull out of the Link system because they say the fees are too high- especially compared to what they pay other banks for use of their ATMs.

I get the reasons for buying gold, from a long-term store of value, to the idea of it as an investment insurance policy, but I've never taken the plunge and stuck some in the Minor Investor portfolio. Recently though, I've been wondering whether this is a mistake. Should I perhaps buy some gold?

I've heard that having a full attic will help to insulate my home, keep the warm air in and in turn reduce my energy bills, is there any truth to this or is it just an urban myth? If it is true will packing my attic full of boxes help or do I need to pay for loft insulation?

Banks and building societies are battling it out in an effort to tempt homeowners to remortgage with a spate of mortgage rate cuts and offers in the past week. Yorkshire, West Brom and Coventry building societies have all sliced their rates to new lows, while high street lender HSBC has launched several cheaper deals for those with a reasonable slug of equity.

Just three months after creating what he calls the 'MONSTER Huracan', the former professional winter-sport athlete turned YouTube star has decided to put his ski-ready supercar up for sale. Costing in excess of £300,000 to build, he's asking for £210,000 for the car, which has covered 2,360 miles in total.

Former Pensions Minister Steve Webb is This Is Money's Agony Uncle. He is ready to answer your questions, whether you are still saving, in the process of stopping work, or juggling your finances in retirement. This week, a reader who thought he would get less than the full £155-a-week state pension is confused to find out otherwise.

Crowdfunders have benefited from a healthy increase in the amounts raised, according to new figures. In the sector's largest markets - the US and the UK - the overall number of campaigns launched slumped, with a 17 per cent decrease last year from a high reached in 2015. But the average sum raised increased by 22 per cent. The average amount pledged was also up by 2 per cent to $93 (£75) and successful campaigns saw 6 per cent more backers.

IPSE, the association for the self-employed, has welcomed a call from a cross-party group of MPs for action to 'get women working', including a recommendation to bring maternity allowance and statutory maternity pay in line to support self-employed women. The Women and Work All-Party Parliamentary Group last week recommended supporting women from the moment they take a career break, for example because of motherhood or caring responsibilities, as well as supporting their return to the workplace. There are 1.5 million self-employed women in the UK, up by a third since 2011. They are entitled only to maternity allowance, not statutory maternity pay.

To clear the average national household debt of ?13,000 at 6% interest with a monthly repayment of ?100 will take around 17 years. There are, however, plenty of simple ways to make significant savings on your regular spending that could clear your debt - or boost your savings - in less than a year. This is Money's top 50 - updated - money-saving tips may appear light-hearted but are deadly serious.

Choosing the right DIY platform is crucial but a wealth of choice and changes to charges have left many investors scratching their heads. We pick some of the best. We also highlight why investing in an Isa makes sense, as it should protect your hopefully growing investments from tax forever.

The amount you can save into a pension ultimately depends on what you can afford - but the longer you leave it the more you will need to save. We tend to put ambitious targets on our hoped-for income in retirement and then underestimate how much we will need to set aside to achieve that. So how much should you save?

An interest rate cut before the end of the year looks less likely following the plunge in the pound. However, the Bank of England has indicated that higher inflation driven by rising import costs won't make it lift rates.

Despite endless media coverage of the political wrangling and financial speculation, the average Briton can be forgiven for remaining confused about what 'soft' and 'hard' Brexit really mean. But a clever table put together by HSBC cleaves some clarity from the murk.

Compare your pay to the national average and see whether your employer treated you to a pay rise in line with the the rest of your profession. Farmers, care and air travel assistants were big winners on the pay scales in 2016. Travel agents, careers advisers and probation officers lost out.