Hundreds of thousands of grandparents and other family members could be missing out on valuable credits towards the state pension worth around £250 a year in old age, new research reveals. Some 10,000 people a year who help mums and dads with childcare are now applying for the credits - a huge jump on the 1,300 who did so in 2016. But this is 'a drop in the ocean' out of the number who could benefit, according to pension giant Royal London, which obtained the take-up figures via Freedom of Information requests.

I can hear people talking, walking around and anything else that goes on up there, in both my living room and bedroom - and she is letting out a room on Airbnb, which is compounding the problem. I checked our lease and it says that she must keep the floors covered, but I don’t know how I could enforce this.

Want to get into the head of what it takes to be a traffic police officer and how they operate? That's what What Car? has done in an exclusive interview with a former traffic cop who has shone some light on the day-to-day demands of enforcing the law on our roads.

Only cars that were between four and 10 years old were included in the results - models that are likely to be out of warranty, putting potential buyers at risk of covering huge garage bills if they turn out to be a lemon. The most reliable list contains (from top left) the Honda Jazz, Toyota Yaris and Mitsubishi ASX. The least dependable ranking includes (from bottom left) the Land Rover Discovery, Ford Kuga and BMW 1 Series.

He has instructed a solicitor based on him saying that the only reason he moved in with me was because I said 'I would see him right re owning part of my property'. He has financially abused me for years, emotional pressure for years and I even suffered a heart attack due to the stress. I am in my 60s and can now see he has been manipulating me for years just because I own my home. Lawyer Alexandra Kenyon, of Dickinson Parker Hill Solicitors, replies.

However you define what a richer or fairer life is, there is no escaping that a concern about inequality is one of the defining features of our times. Over the next five years a new study will attempt to answer whether it's actually a problem in the UK and at its launch a report laid bare a fascinating snapshot of Britain that shows who is getting richer.

The colours are from a range of paint suppliers, including Farrow & Ball, Little Green, and Valspar. They include Bone China Blue by Little Greene, Setting Plaster by Farrow and Ball and Puttin' on the Ritz by Valspar.

The number of driver details sold to private parking companies reached a new high last year, according to analysis of government figures. The RAC Foundation found 6.8million sets of vehicle keeper records were released to parking management firms in 2018 to 2019, up a fifth from 5.65million a year earlier.

Many people will have at some point walked down a street and thought 'I'd like to live here'. There's often just one small problem, however. None of the houses are for sale. But Knock for Sale, a new company that wants to help people buy their dream property - even if it's not up for sale - reckons it has a solution. Cards cost £5 each and prospective buyers can send multiple cards to different properties.

Once the chest is opened there's a light inside to guide you to one of the quad of hand-blown crystal champagne flutes, which the marque says are 'arranged to evoke memories of a V12 engine'. Costing the same as a new Mercedes-Benz E-Class saloon, the champagne chest has two ejectable thermal containers that can be used to serve caviar and canapes or chill a spare bottle of bubbly. Prices start from £37,000 before tax - so £44,400 including VAT in the UK.

Low awareness of and confusion over the name 'attendance allowance' - which implies you are receiving home visits from a carer - could be putting people off, according to retirement home developer McCarthy & Stone. The firm helps its residents claim any benefits to which they are entitled. But some three quarters of the 4,000 people it has assisted over the past three years had failed to apply for attendance allowance until it informed them of its existence.

Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland are among five banks to have been slapped with a slice of a £930million fine for rigging foreign exchange markets. The European Commission's investigation revealed that some individual traders in charge of foreign exchange spot trading for 11 currencies on behalf of their banks exchanged sensitive information and trading plans. Traders involved in the rigging occasionally co-ordinated trading strategies through online chatrooms, the Commission said.

The UK's 40 largest companies celebrated a profit increase for the eighth consecutive quarter between January and March while the rest of the market saw theirs drop by almost 20 per cent. Is Brexit to blame and what happens when we officially leave?

We are used to keeping an eye on our bank balance, but are we looking at the big picture? If not, you are missing the vital first step to transforming your fortune. Calculating their wealth has allowed Siubhan Reid-Litherland and Mark Litherland (pictured) to bring forward their retirement and plans to travel by five years.

The first floor of the former printworks could pass for a dishevelled furniture showroom, writes AMELIA MURRAY. Wide-screen TVs and chests of drawers are lined up around the sprawling space. Sofas are grouped together in makeshift living rooms, with dining-room tables just around the corner. In fact, the warehouse, in Stockport, Greater Manchester, is home to Simon Charles Auctioneers, whose twice-monthly Super Saturday Live Sale is about to start. The auction has been running for more than 70 years and sells more than 5,000 lots each week. It is 9am, and eagle-eyed shoppers have an hour to inspect what's on offer before the bidding begins. Pictured: Chairs costing £600 which were bought for £55 (left), a microwave that retails for £110 but sold for £33 (top right), and a Samsung washing machine, which retails for £419 but sold for just £46 (bottom right).

Savings rates have been low for a long time but over the past nine months or so, they've been even lower than usual - and that, in spite of the rising base rate. But since the start of May, Beehive Money, Post Office Money and Sainsbury's Bank have all either launched or increased rates on their easy access accounts.

Having outperformed all other major markets for most of 2019 - not to mention being in the longest bull run in American history - investors in some quarters believe the US stock market's winning streak could finally be due to end. The US stock market matters a great deal to British investors. Not only does it make up about 55 per cent of the global index, but where the US market leads, others tend to follow.

Investors have no shortage of choice about where to put their money to work nowadays, but narrowing that abundance of opportunities down is tough. We talk to David Coombs, of Rathbones, who sifts through the world's investments to find the pieces of the jigsaw needed to deliver good and reliable returns for investors.

Motorists who are one step away from a driving ban could be paying less car insurance than drivers with zero no-claims discount, new research has revealed. Insurances quotes were on average nearly 10 per cent cheaper for a typical UK driver with nine points on their license for speeding or other transgression, compared to those who have a no-claims discount, according to data from Vantage Leasing.

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?

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.

Lower than expected inflation figures have added weight to expectations that interest rate rises will remain on hold throughout most of 2019. This combined with the Brexit extension is forecast to keep monetary policy steady, with rates held at 0.75 per cent. While unemployment is low and wages are rising, there are still concerns over Britain's consumer economy and business investment being stalled by continuing Brexit uncertainty.