NEW Last week, This is Money reported that Sky was hiking line rental prices. It follows other telecoms providers who have made similar increases in recent months. It has left us - and many of our readers - asking if Ofcom will look into soaring costs, and do anything about it

I work quite long hours and find the amount of time I watch television has dwindled. It means I rarely sit around watching 'filler' shows or anything live. I pay £6.99 for Netflix each month and find with my limited time, it has enough shows to keep me occupied when I need a TV fix. I also watch on-demand shows. Do I need a licence?

Accord Mortgages has unveiled a two-year fix at 1.84 per cent for those with a 40 per cent deposit but you would pay a hefty £2,625 in fees.The broker arm of Yorkshire Building Society is offering the record low deal to new borrowers or those remortgaging with a 40 per cent deposit.

The number of whistleblowing reports made to the pensions regulator about auto-enrolment has jumped 33 per cent in a year. Auto-enrolment - the new law which means every employer must automatically enrol staff into a pension - is entering a critical stage, with 97 per cent of UK employers yet to reach their compliance dates.

Around £23billion of consumer spending a year, on everything from travel to electronics, is triggered after people read favourable online reviews. But these reviews cannot always be trusted. Here, The Mail on Sunday looks at how online shoppers are being manipulated. The Sykeses paid £430 to advertise their holiday cottage.

Now six months since new pension reforms were first introduced, savers, employers and pension providers alike are still experiencing teething problems, with some of the detail still being ironed out. We reveal the top ten questions that savers have been posing to the government's official pension service Pension Wise. Do you know the answers?

The UK's special relationship with America runs deeper than just a political understanding. Britons like to buy American branded goods; invest in the shares of their most successful companies; and even own property there. The Mail on Sunday shows you how to shop, invest and live in the US. Slavica Vojinovic uses shipping firm MyUS to buy archery gear for her business.

Pop star Oritsé Williams was so poor when growing up that his family could not afford to pay for food and electricity and would rely on handouts from neighbours. Now, Williams lives in a £2.7million mansion and goes on luxury holidays to St Lucia. As part of boy band JLS, he was able to command £70,000 - shared between them - for a private performance that lasted just one hour.

Star Wars blazes back on to cinema screens this December with The Force Awakens. To mark the occasion, Royal Mail will be issuing a set of Darth Vader stamps. A dozen 63p Star Wars First Class stamps - featuring characters such as Princess Leia and the Dark Lord himself - will go on sale in nine days' time. But despite their huge collectable appeal, modern stamp issues usually fall in value after release as so many get printed.

So now we know. The Government is planning to sell at least £2billion worth of shares in Lloyds Banking Group to individual investors next March. This begs one obvious question: is the stock a good buy? To make the question easier to answer, the Government is offering two incentives. First, the shares will be sold at a 5 per cent discount to the prevailing market price and second, anyone who keeps the stock for more than a year will receive one free share for every ten held.

Birkenhead-based Cammell Laird will start work on the icebreaker next year, having beaten off competition from around the world to become the Government's 'preferred bidder'. The ship, which will carry helicopters and be able to dispatch submarines under the ice, will launch in 2019 and operate in both Antarctica and the Arctic.

A group of four American pension and investment funds have launched a multi-million dollar legal action against Tesco over its 'massive restatement' of profits that caused a collapse in its share price last year. The claim centres on Tesco's £263million accounting scandal in September 2014, which emerged after a member of staff brought the issue to the attention of incoming chief executive Dave Lewis.

Clifford and Alice Bentick met on their first day at McKinsey Consulting. They went on to set up Entrepreneur First, the pre-seed investment programme which - unusually - selects people before they have a start-up or even an idea. Clifford may like to joke that it is a 'six month programme in megalomania', but he is extremely serious about the concept.

If you're curious about finding out what your property's worth, there are plenty of websites and online tools to do it yourself. But can you get an accurate valuation of your home without getting an estate agent round?

In a world of low growth, it's time for frontier markets to step up- but they're not for the faint hearted. These markets are small, illiquid and the risks are plentiful, so investors need to do their homework before buying in- or find a professional to do it for them.

Skoda and Mercedes-Benz are two brands you probably wouldn't put on a level playing field, but the Czech carmaker's new Superb Estate might be the car to blur the lines of luxury. When you take price, power and boot space into consideration, which one comes out on top?

Volkswagen, Audi, Skoda and SEAT have all launched new websites to allow owners to check if their vehicle is one of the 1.2 million UK cars fitted with the emissions cheat device. German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported the device does cheat the test in Europe as well as the US.

'Dear Investors, we plan to sell you a stake you already collectively own in a bank you rescued...' is not how the Lloyds share sale offer page starts. Yet, it seems that many will still be taking up the offer, however cynical they are. Their reasons may amount to bad investing theory, but like them I'm tempted.

As the Lloyds share sale sweeteners that could get you £200 back on a £1,000 invested are revealed, we take a look at the bank - along with a fund manager's view that the UK will do well.

The new iPhone 6s is steep. The version with the maximum memory capacity and can set you back £789. But for those who can't wait to get their hands on this latest bit of technology, what is the most cost effective way of going about it? We run through your options.

A new interactive map claims to define the social characteristics of every neighbourhood in the UK -with a level of detail focusing down to individual streets or groups of streets. The Consumer Data Research Centre based its research on 2011 census data, and tried to categorise the residents of individual postcodes - that is as few as two or three hundred persons - according to ethnicity, employment and income, family situation and life-expectations.

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.

Unemployment has increased for the second month in a row, adding weight to the arguments of ratesetters in the lower for longer camp. This follows the outlook for when interest rates will rise shifting forwards slightly to about February 2016 in the recent inflation report.

For many buy-to-let looks an attractive income investment in a time of low rates and stock market volatility. Climbing house prices, rising rents and improving mortgage deals are tempting investors - although they will need a big deposit. Read This is Money's top ten buy-to-let tips

The influence of financial services on the economy is spelled out again as City brokers steal top spot in this year's official list of highest earners. According to the detailed 2014 annual salaries survey, brokers pocketed around 40 times more this year than those at the bottom of the list - the people responsible for keeping children safe on the way to school. Lollipop crossing patrols earned around £3,400.