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From seeing films for free to winning an £1,800 payout, our team tells how their funds fared

The Victories  Jeff Prestridge: ARTS ON THE CHEAP: When I am not working, I divide any spare time I have between three big passions – running (rather badly); immersing myself in the arts (theatre, cinema and jazz clubs); and watching football teams Sheffield United and West Bromwich Albion attempt to make it into the Premier League. All somewhat co

JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Regulator Ofgem must get tough on the new California Gold Rush debacle

No can dispute that a freeing up of the energy supply market has been good for consumers. It has resulted in more choice, some extraordinarily good deals offered by new suppliers and a welcome loosening of the stranglehold on the market held by the ‘Big Six’ – British Gas, EDF, E.ON, npower, Scottish Power and SSE. Indeed, it would have

The time it takes to complete a tax return is set to increase by up to an hour in the new year

Completing a tax return could take up to an hour longer this year. A survey of 4,500 taxpayers by consumer group Which? indicates that those who have already filed their self-assessment tax return ahead of the end of January deadline spent nearly three-and-a-half hours completing it.  Lengthy: Completing a tax return is set to take people

SUNDAY NEWSPAPER SHARE TIPS: Anglo Asian Mining, Gordon Dadds, Big Yellow and Dechra Pharma

Every weekend, we round-up the newspaper share tips. This week, the Financial Mail on Sunday looks at its best performing tip of 2018, Anglo Asian Mining and updates on one of three to watch this year, law firm Gordon Dadds. Meanwhile, the Sunday Times looks at pet medicine and vaccine firm Dechra Pharma and the Sunday Telegraphs runs the rule over

I’m saving £400 a month but my projected pension at 65 is still puny

I am a bank employee. I work in electrical engineering so don’t have any banking or pension knowledge. I have been contributing to the company pension scheme at my work. In rough figures I basically put in £400 a month to my pension and after 10 years my pension pot has £40,000 in it. If I retired at 65 my pension pot is expected to be £128,0

House prices in major UK cities to slow in 2019 but London will fall

House prices have slowed across the majority of the UK’s biggest cities to rise at their lowest level in five years – and this trend is set to accelerate into 2019 as London property values fall. This year, Manchester, Liverpool, Cardiff and Newcastle are the only major cities to have seen prices grow faster than they did in 2017, while the other

Kingdom Come: Deliverance DLC Roadmap revealed

Warhorse is now ready to reveal what’s coming up for the medieval RPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance as far as full DLC and free content is concerned. As well as four slices of story DLC, two or three of which will make it out this year starting with ‘From the Ashes’. There’s also a free hardcore mode, tournament, and of course modding support with ot

PC Game Release Date List 2018 – 2019 | PC Invasion

PC Game Release Dates 2018 – 2019 by Month / Date January 2018 February 2018 March 2018 April 2018 May 2018 / Q2 June 2018 July 2018 August 2018 September 2018 October 2018 November 2018 December 2018 2018 (TBA) 2019 (TBA) Welcome to the PC Game Release Dates 2018/19 for January 2018 onwards. Whether you are looking for PC games releasing in 20

Mike Bithnell is back with a new short Quarantine Circular | PC Invasion

Thomas was Alone and Subsurface Circular creator Mike Bithnell is back in action with his latest game which has been announced and released on Steam. This new short is called Quarantine Circular and it’s a sci-fi text adventure game designed to not last too long. The is priced at £4.79 (currently discounted to £3.83), it can be completed in a cou

Star Trek Bridge Crew The Next Generation launch trailer. PC version still some way off | PC Invasion

The PC version of the new Star Trek Bridge Crew expansion called The Next Generation is out today on PSVR but the PC version is still a way off. PC gamers won’t get their hands on it until 24 July for some reason. Despite the fact there’s still over a month until it arrives on the PC, a launch trailer has been released to satisfy the console crow