Anyone with car, home, travel and warranty insurance policies bought via 'middlemen' instead of directly from an insurer should check their policies to ensure they are fit for purpose. This warning comes after the City regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority, uncovered widespread poor sales practices and evidence of mis-selling to customers who bought via a third party.

An invasion of killer bugs and fungi could wreak deadly and costly damage this autumn. The Mail on Sunday looks at the threat posed by pests - with a skull and crossbones rating - and how best to eliminate them.

Goldsmith is furious with huge ticket resellers - such as Viagogo and StubHub - which he says snap up tickets and sell them at a vast profit. Goldsmith says that he has been talking about this for 25 years and still hasn't made any progress. 'Successive governments have totally ignored the issue. The standard response is "But where would we get our Wimbledon tickets from?"

Hollywood actor Richard E. Grant has never borrowed any money for fear of not being able to pay it back. Grant, who shot to fame in 1987 for his role as Withnail in cult film Withnail & I, says 1988 was the best year of his life financially and he made more money that year than he had ever dreamt possible.

Blimey! The value of old Beano comics is soaring as nostalgic investors snap up comic strip jolly japes they first enjoyed in their childhood. Last week, publisher DC Thomson launched a Beano website to complement the comic - enabling young fans to also read about Dennis the Menace and The Bash Street Kids on smartphones and tablets.

Everyone loves a crazy concept vehicle or a bank-busting hypercar, but the reality is these aren't the cars 99% of us will be looking to buy in the next six months. These 10 models, however, are. Top, left to right: Land Rover Discovery, Kia Rio, Citroen C3, Honda Civic, Mercedes AMG GT Roadster, Nissan Micra, BMW X2, Suzuki Ignis, Skoda Kodiaq.

Buying a small patch of land from your neighbour may seem initially like a straight-forward process, but here are some of the issues that could trip you up unless they are addressed.

In Cambridge, which has 15 tech jobs per 1,000 people, house prices have soared 58.7 per cent in the last five years to reach £442,518, the analysis of Office for National Statistics and Tech City UK data by Property Partner shows.

Some 660,900 homes across Britain are estimated to be worth at least £1 million - an increase of over 40,800 since January. Yet not everyone is getting a slice of the property boom pie it seems, as four out of five (82 per cent) of the houses are in London or the South East of England. And London, home to 60 per cent of the million-pound properties, takes all top 10 spots in the country's priciest streets. At the top of the list is Kensington Palace Gardens (1) where an average house costs a cool £38.26 million. In The Boltons (2) the typical price is £33.31 million, compared to Grosvenor Crescent (3) at £21.64 million and Ilchester Place (4) at £12.77 million. Fifth is the upmarket Manresa Rd (5), where on average a house will set you back £13.28m.

While the stock market goes up and down, when it comes to investing it seems that it's worth playing the long game. A £10,000 investment in the FTSE 100 in 1986 would now be worth an impressive £126,867. If you had left the same amount in an average savings account, it would be worth £28,196 - almost £100,000 less.

The beleaguered German lender appeared to strike a deal with the US Department of Justice over penalties for mis-selling toxic bundles of mortgage debt sold in the run-up to the financial crisis. It was feared the original fine could destroy the bank, which has lost more than half its value in the past year and is now worth just £13bn.

Consumers continued to spend in the run up to June's referendum, with the key services sector managing a 0.4 per cent increase in output in July, which helped overall GDP figures to be revised up to 0.7 per cent in the second quarter, from 0.6 per cent.

Even at a time when we are stretching our finances further to afford a home, moving less, and pushing mortgages beyond 30 years, we still remain captivated by two-year fixed rate deals. Five-year fixed rates offer both historically cheap money and some financial security. And yet, a two-year fix is cheaper. So, when the mortgage industry tempts people in with these teasers they don't need much convincing.

A convertible version of the £1.1million hybrid LaFerrari hypercar has long been teased but now it is officially here... and categorically sold out. All 209 have been promised to Ferrari's most devoted customers. It uses the same 6.3-litre V12 engine and electric motor combo as the 950bhp coupe. Officially unwrapped at the Paris Motor Show on Thursday morning, Ferrari has confirmed the roof-down stunner will use the Aperta name - the Italian for 'open'.

Money Mail was launched 50 years ago today to help families make their cash work harder. To celebrate we've compiled 50 of our favourite tips and tricks to help you save. From parking your car on a stranger's driveway to never going into a pound shop, there's something for everyone, whatever the size of your wallet.

Zoopla is best known as a place to find a house to buy or see yours up for sale.But now the property listings site has branched out with the launch of an 'invest' channel, which allows users to put money into a property Isa or back buy-to-let mortgages through a peer-to-peer lending scheme.

Neat Nutrition's popular protein supplements now grace the virtual shelves of Net-a-Porter and Mr Porter across Europe and the US. Not bad for a start-up that's only been trading for a year. Here the two former GB swimmers behind the company, Lee Forster, 33, and Charlie Turner, 32, explain the secrets of their success.

When the Daily Mail was dropped through Britain's letter boxes on Wednesday September 28, 1966, it contains a new feature called Money Mail. Our first headline was: 'You slaved for your savings - now make them do the same for you.' The aim was to help ordinary families make more of their money - just like it is today. We look at financial life back then and how it has changed.

They used to be a rarity, but seven-seaters are an everyday part of the motoring scene now. That means there's plenty of choice, so What Car?'s experts picked us five of the best.Clockwise from top left: Land Rover Discover Sport, Audi Q7, Ford Galaxy, VW Touran. Centre: Volvo XC90.

We speak to Joshua Browder in the latest of our regular 'a coffee with...'  series - in which we invite colourful characters in the world of finance for a chat at the This is Money HQ. The 19 year-old's fortunes have had a meteoric rise in the last year thanks to the creation of his website donotpay.co.uk.

I'm a financial adviser, whose clients - a retired couple - have suffered extremely poor service from Santander. In early 2016, the wife held about £160,000 of shares in a Santander unit trust. In order to make use of her husband's unused capital gains tax allowance, she planned to transfer about half of her holding to him.

The average house price in the Northamptonshire town comes in at around £183,345, compared to £740,000 in central London. Lloyds bank suggested that workers willing to commute for an hour would save themselves £450,000 when buying a home.

Exports of British goods to China have risen sharply over the last two decades, jumping from £877m in 1998 to £15.5bn in 2014, making the country the UK's sixth biggest market. But sales to China of goods stamped 'Made in Britain' fell 22 per cent in 2015 to £12.1bn with car exports down a thumping 37.5 per cent.

However many middle-aged and older workers do not even realise they are paying fees that sap their savings, prolonging the amount of time they are in work. A 55-year old worker has an average pension pot of £42,621 and is paying an average fee of 1.85 per cent, according to advice firm Profile Financial. It has worked out they would have to keep saving until they are 80 to boost that to £50,000, assuming investment performance of 2.5 per cent after fees - but only until the age of 63 if they switched to a newer fund levying 0.34 per cent

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.