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Cheap van insurance for young drivers is harder to find than standard cover because insurers treat 17-25 year olds as higher-risk, but there are legal ways to bring the price down. You can insure a van from age 17 with a full UK licence, and the biggest savings come from choosing a low insurance-group van, […]

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Tesco home insurance is a buildings, contents and combined home policy underwritten by Tesco Underwriting and sold by Tesco Personal Finance Ltd, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). It offers three ways to buy: combined buildings and contents, buildings-only, or contents-only for renters, with a guaranteed Clubcard discount on new […]

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An EU health insurance card gives UK residents access to necessary state healthcare in the European Economic Area (EEA) and some other countries, on the same basis as a resident of that country. For UK travellers this now means the free UK Global Health Insurance Card (GHIC), which has replaced most EHIC applications since 2021, […]

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Beagle Street life insurance is a direct, online-only term life cover aimed at UK adults aged roughly 18 to 64, with prices the provider advertises from less than £6 a month, based on a 30-year-old non-smoker taking out £200,000 of decreasing term cover for 20 years. It is underwritten by Family Assurance Friendly Society Limited […]

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EDF Energy Economy 7 is a two-rate electricity tariff that charges a cheaper unit rate for seven hours overnight and a higher rate during the day. It suits homes that can shift a meaningful share of their usage into the off-peak window, such as those with night storage heaters, an immersion tank, an electric vehicle […]

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Local network vs ISP speed comes down to which of two bottlenecks is slower: the connection your broadband provider delivers to your home, or the wiring, router and Wi-Fi inside it. Your real-world speed is capped by whichever is worse, so a gigabit tariff can still feel slow if an old router or a weak […]

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