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A brand new baby Jaguar leapt into the record books tonight, as the British car maker took the wraps off the E-Pace at a star-studded launch. A record-breaking James Bond-style barrel roll jump was performed, as Jaguar revealed the new E-Pace family-sized SUV - a car designed more for mums and dads on the school run than parking at the golf club.

Leaseholders claim they have been asked for a huge extra service charge from the freeholders Hounslow Council. They feel £941.67 extra a month for a year is unreasonable and would like to challenge it. We spoke to a legal expert to find out where they stand and asked the council to explain the charges.

Britons are sitting on some £60billion in cash savings earmarked for the long-term but this is declining in real value by £1.5billion per year through not being invested, according to new research by BlackRock. We take a look at why and what you can do to invest easily if you have a chunk of money you've set aside for the long term and don't fancy watching it dwindle in real value

Wimbledon is in full swing with the most talented players in world tennis taking to the iconic courts of SW19 to vie with their counterparts for the illustrious Grand Slam title. To celebrate the acclaimed tournament - and for a bit of fun - Jason Hollands, managing director at Tilney Bestinvest, has pored over the numbers to reveal the top seeded equity fund managers in the UK.

I have been a customer of Virgin Media for many years, but when we moved house in May 2014, it was unable to supply our new address. Virgin said we would be charged a £240 disconnection fee, even though it was not our fault. We couldn't afford this, but it set a debt collection agency on us.

When it comes to a job interview, most serious candidates will have prepared by researching the company to get the best shot at securing the role. But one interview element many do not give a second thought to inevitably arrives, when the interviewer says: 'do you have any questions?' We get 23 expert tips on things to ask.

Gervais Williams has carved out a reputation as one of the UK's best smaller company stock pickers. But despite his ability to meet with senior company directors and the research resources that he enjoys, Gervais says that he believes private investors, especially those outside London, can have an advantage when investing in smaller companies. He explains why and gives us his tips.

New rules introduced last month mean that if you use your mobile phone for calls, texts or browsing the internet while on holiday within the European Union, it will cost the same as it would in the UK. The European Commission pledged to end punitive roaming charges, saying 'mobile phone users will pay the same price as at home, with no extra charges'.

In a major overhaul of its current accounts, Lloyds will be getting rid of all fees for unauthorised overdrafts from November. The changes also apply at Halifax and Bank of Scotland. It comes after years of campaigning for a crackdown on banks that use crippling overdraft fees to fill their coffers.

Easy-access deals, which hold £662bn of savers' cash, are meant to be the most straightforward way of putting money aside for a rainy day. But savers are often forced to grapple with complicated terms and conditions to get the advertised rate. One wrong move, such as making too many withdrawals, and your rate may plummet.

The firm, which counts actress Jennifer Aniston and singer Miley Cyrus as fans, is being sold by the Batista family, who have been embroiled in a series of corruption scandals. Alpargatas, which owns the brand, will be bought by three prominent Brazilian banking groups.

Asos shipped 16.9million orders in the four months to the end of June, helping total retail sales grow 26 per cent to £660million at constant currency, in line with analysts' expectations. Overseas sales saw the biggest rise at 54 per cent to £134.5million, as the weaker pound makes the goods exported cheaper for international shoppers.

When former flight attendant Sandra Kemball finally got a refund from Extra Energy last July, she thought her troubles with the power firm were over. But then in May this year - more than ten months later - Sandra started getting phone calls and text messages from a debt agency representing Extra Energy.

The AA has said my breakdown premium will go up by £9 a month if I stay with it and this is £18 more than a new customer would pay for exactly the same policy. The price given is just a monthly sum, of £35, which covers my husband and me, but nowhere does it say how much I've been paying for the past 12 months.

We don't want to use bridging finance as this seems really expensive, but we would be looking to sell the property after we have done the refurbishment - can we get buy-to-let mortgage to do this?

I am in the process of moving a defined benefit pension to another fund with a view to being in control of my money. My question is that I thought when it was moved I could take a chunk of cash 25 per cent tax free leaving the remainder invested? Then I read that for example if I took £20K, £5K would be tax free and £15K taxable, or is this something else that follows later?

Think of it as a secret Batcave of high-end cars, but instead of being concealed beneath the grounds of Wayne Manor it's cocooned by high-rise buildings and the M4 motorway. It's the undercover hub of luxury car franchise HR Owen's VIP Services division that allows those with deep pockets to rent anything from a 600bhp Lamborghini to a swanky Rolls-Royce for a day, week or even months at a time. You can even choose the chauffeur that comes with it. Rob Hull paid it a visit.

Fresh signs of a slowdown in the housing market are expected this week when one of the most highly regarded barometers of the sector is released. The UK Residential Market Survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is seen as one of the best lead indicators of house price movement. It is expected to show a dip in the balance of members reporting house price rises.

Imagine having an unlimited budget to buy a property anywhere in the world. What house would you pick? These homes revealed in exclusive research by property website Rightmove could be yours if money really was no object, including, clockwise from top left, a six-bed house in Australia, a seven-bed villa in Thailand, an eighteen-bedroom mansion in Italy, a ten-bed villa in Morrocco, a six-bed house in Brazil, and a eleven-bed house in California, USA.

Woefully slow broadband is the bane of many households. A recent report from consumer group Which? identified 11 local authorities where broadband speeds do not reach a proposed legal minimum of ten megabits per second. But for many, there is an answer. It is called fibre optic broadband, the latest evolution in broadband technology. Where it is available, prices for this kind of superfast broadband are coming down while speeds are going up.

Equipment that was thrown away as obsolete junk just a few years ago can fetch hundreds - sometimes even thousands - of pounds. Renewed sales of vinyl passed three million for the first time in 25 years this year. Enthusiasts keen to find something suitable to spin their new discs on are turning to old players that were previously just cluttering up the house or collecting dust in the attic.

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.

The amount you can save into a pension ultimately depends on what you can afford - but the longer you leave it the more you will need to save. We tend to put ambitious targets on our hoped-for income in retirement and then underestimate how much we will need to set aside to achieve that. So how much should you save?

Worries over debt in the economy have been raised in the latest bank Financial Stability Report in the wake of fresh speculation that interest rates may rise sooner than most expect. The latest MPC meeting led one investment bank, Nomura, to suggest a rate rise could come as soon as August. Economist George Buckley said comments from Bank chief economist Andy Haldane's and the 5-3 split made an early move more likely.

Compare your pay to the national average and see whether your employer treated you to a pay rise in line with the the rest of your profession. Farmers, care and air travel assistants were big winners on the pay scales in 2016. Travel agents, careers advisers and probation officers lost out.