Families are being hammered with a £250 holiday tax - plus a triple whammy of stealth fees. Taking a family of four to Spain means handing the taxman £133.20 - 30 per cent up on 2008. Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon is set halve air passenger duty between 2018 and 2021 in a bid to boost business. Tory MPs are privately putting pressure on Philip Hammond, the new Chancellor, to cut VAT in the autumn statement to provide a post-referendum shot-in-the arm to the economy. Last night, they went public with calls for air passenger duty to be cut.

I have a pension pot worth £51,000 and want to use new pension freedoms to bequeath it to my children and grandchildren. I thought that the changes to the pension rules were designed to increase flexibility and would mean that I could transfer the pension into a drawdown policy to spend, invest or save as I choose. Instead I am stuck in a pension scheme that will end upon the second death of either me or my wife.

The compact two-berth Bailey Approach Compact motorhome is based around the popular Peugeot Boxer van cab, engine and low-slung chassis. It costs £38,000 or you can rent one for short term for holidays. Mine had almost everything - including kitchen sink, cooker, compact bathroom with loo, washbasin and refreshing shower.

Traditionally a fall in the pound has been associated with economic hardship - think 'Black Wednesday' when the UK crashed out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, straight after the dot-com bubble burst in 2001, or during the financial crisis of 2008. But this time around, the Government has been telling investors and businesses that this is an opportunity - a once in a generation chance to turn an unbalanced economy reliant on consumer demand and imports back into a trading force.

We moved house in April this year, inheriting our energy supply from Scottish Power. I gave it our opening reading but then switched to British Gas straight away as I found a much better tariff and was told this had happened at the end of April. A final bill from Scottish Power arrived in May for £167.51 which I queried as it seemed excessive for just 18 days of energy. I was told the bill had been created by using estimated readings so I again gave the correct reading and was told to call British Gas with these.

Whether you're looking to commute in the city, enjoy globe-trotting adventures offroad, or graze a kneeslider at a trackday, one of these 11 motorcycles will be right for you, according to the review team at Auto Trader. The selection has been made as part of its Best Bike Awards for 2016. But don't think it all comes down to outright speed - the overall winner is about as far from a superbike as you can get.

Figures released yesterday show players had spent £192million on the addictive mobile phone game and it's on course to hit sales of $1billion (£771million) - the most by a phone game ever.

Standard Life UK Smaller Companies seeks 'tomorrow's large companies today', investing in smaller set-ups with good cash flow, strong balance sheets and long-term management.

George Osborne introduced some overly-complex gems, but perhaps his most needlessly complicated tax change was the one to inheritance tax. What we need now is a new Office of Budget Simplicity. All future tax changes need to be put before it and its panel of reasonable ordinary people, who must understand them with very little explanation.

We've all had the phone calls, 'Hello X, we're calling to say you're due thousands in compensation for the PPI you were mis-sold'. Normally I just tell the caller not to contact me again or by hanging up the phone. But last week I had a particularly nasty and threatening caller who insisted I should be using that company to check for my mis-sold payment protection insurance. Despite the fact I told the caller instantly I didn't have it, wasn't interested and wanted my number to be taken off the list, I was then bombarded with accusations about me not wanting the refund I was 'owed'.

Many investment trusts are still reeling from the shock of Brexit, but not Murray International. The trust's style was out of favour last year but it has bounced back, with its low exposure to the UK proving a boost. Manager Bruce Stout is skeptical of Western central bankers and says he can find better opportunities in emerging markets.

Declining ownership is seen as another sign of property market in crisis, but is this true? Ed Mead, of estate agents Douglas and Gordon, joins the Property Show, to look at the state of the market and whether prices will keep rising. And as an experienced agent he also answers the question many of us will have asked: 'How on earth do people afford London homes?'

When the Bank of England cut interest rates, it wanted to encourage investors to take 'more risk' with their money. The higher the risk, the bigger the potential returns . . . but so will your losses be if things go wrong. Here, we guide you through the best ways to beat the rate cuts and keep your returns safely trickling in... and most importantly explain just how risky they are.

More than 30% of homes for sale on the property website Zoopla had been reduced in price by the beginning of August, with the average discount at £25,257. The North of England has borne the brunt of the price cuts, with more than two fifths of properties listed in Huddersfield, Wigan and St Helens having been marked down.

Many homeowners are bombarding mortgage brokers with phone calls asking if they should switch to a deal that tracks official interest rates. With the Bank of England indicating rates could fall again, borrowers question whether they should choose this type of deal instead of a fixed rate - but a fix is probably still better.

In 2013, I claimed against Barclaycard for a mis-sold payment protection insurance (PPI) policy. My claim was rejected, and I accepted this. But then, in September 2015, I received a letter from Barclaycard stating my claim had been reviewed - I was awarded £1,887.84.

Early indications are that lenders have no intention of cushioning savers and are set to pass on as much as possible of the 0.25 per cent cut in Bank of England base rate announced last week. Some have already cut top easy-access accounts for new savers, while the best fixed-rate bonds are fast disappearing.

The strong performance of investment trusts' share prices post-Brexit has led to a fall in the proportionate level of income they can pay out.Between May and August, the number of trusts paying a dividend yield of more than 4 per cent fell from 19 to 14 - while at the start of the year there were 21.

On the latest episode of the Big Money Questions show, we take a step back and ask, what actually is the base rate and what has it got to do with our household finances? Fund manager, economist and author of Money Eric Lonergan gives a one minute explainer, followed by a more detailed version and then talks to presenter Rachel Rickard Straus about why the rate is so low - rounded off with an explanation of the mysterious world of central banks through the simple analogy of a babysitting circle.

It is time the Government and the insurance industry took radical steps to help residents of rural and urban communities reclaim their neighbourhoods from the lorries, the lunatics - and those Great British Motorists who like toddlers think they can do what they like, and explode with rage and indignation when questioned about it.

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.

Now that we've voted ourselves out of the EU, it's time to work out how we're going to trade in future with all its 27 member countries - and the other 27 countries it has deals with. So how do other non-EU members trade with the bloc and would any of their models suit us?

Asked on Radio 4's Today programme if there was a real prospect of a further cut in rates before the end of the year, the Bank's Ben Broadbent said, 'that's true'. Bank rate was cut yesterday to 0.25 per cent from its already record low level of 0.5 per cent, where it had remained for more than seven years.

Musicians have seen pay rises averaging nearly 20 per cent in 2015, while cleaners are getting 17.8 per cent more, and window cleaners 12.3 per cent. Artists in general are earning 14.6 per cent more in 2015 than 2014, according to the huge annual data dump of pay scales by the Office For National Statistics highlights.