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When the wrong postcode puts insurance out of your reach

Insuring a Ford Focus in Bradford could cost £1,265, but in Truro? That will be a mere £350. And it’s not just cars

There’s comfort in the GDP figures – but it’s strictly early days

Philip Hammond’s response to the data shows that he also knows it is too soon to take a ‘steady as she goes’ approach

Nuisance phone call bosses face fines, plus a rise in car insurance premiums

Also, rogue landlord property scams, rising ground rent and tickets trader Viagogo criticised

AA reports rise in car insurance premiums

Average annual policy costs rise 16% year-on-year, with expensive technology on cars and whiplash claims cited as reasons

Hertz car hire bills us for a £3,000 repair that had never been carried out

The excess charge was changed on my contract, and the vehicle was to be sold

Join a club that can help drive down the cost of car ownership

Increased insurance premiums and rising congestion levels can make owning a car increasingly costly. We look at a growing alternative

How to avoid paying a premium for your car insurance

Latest figures reveal the soaring costs of cover, with warnings of further rises to come. But here’s what you can do to get a better deal

Average UK car insurance bill rose by 13% over past year

A surge in expensive claims, repairs and an imminent tax rise are all to blame, says Consumer Intelligence

LV= car insurance premiums to rise as profits plummet

Insurer’s first-half pre-tax profits tumble to £1m from £49m a year earlier due to low interest rates and rising cost of payouts

Beware Goldcar – the hire firm that sells cover customers don’t want

Angry customers face ‘hidden’ charges for insurance policies they didn’t ask for

Direct Line charged me less by phone than online as it said I was ‘sensible’

I got a quote from the insurer’s website, but when I called up it was more than £100 less – complete madness

Admiral blames low interest rates for drop in solvency ratio

FTSE 100 insurance firm says lower interest rates had increased the value of liabilities for claims

Millions of Britons paying ‘ethnic minority penalty’ for car insurance

Drivers in areas with high density of minority ethnic households are each charged up to £450 a year more, says study

Motorists consultation launched to prepare the UK for driverless cars

Government seeking steer from drivers on everything from collision liablity and car insurance to remote parking

Churchill says 13% of east London cars are uninsured

Across the UK there are estimated to be overmore than a million uninsured motorists

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