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When is the best time of year to sell your car to 保証（人） you get the best price? A new 熟考する／考慮する based on the 容積／容量 of sales and 普通の／平均（する） prices for each of the major 乗り物 types - 含むing hatchbacks, saloons and 転換できるs - 否定するs the age-old belief that the hotter months are 一般に the best time to sell a car. But what if you need to part ways with your モーター 権利 now? We 明らかにする／漏らす which models are selling fastest this month...

At 58 years-old, Eddie Buglass had been 製図／抽選 負かす／撃墜する on his Scottish 未亡人s 年金 on an 不規律な basis for two years. 初めは from Newcastle upon Tyne, he had relocated to the Hague in the Netherlands and was working at Swedish furniture 巨大（な） Ikea. Last May he asked for another £8,000 to be paid out to his bank account to go に向かって an 投資.

I have gas and electric メーターs that need changing as they are now pretty old. Eon has been trying to 説得する me to have smart 見解／翻訳／版s fitted but I have resisted. Over the phone an Eon スパイ／執行官 told me I could have 従来の, 非，不，無-smart メーターs fitted but it would cost £147 per メーター, 反して the smart メーターs would be 解放する／自由な. I said I would rather 支払う／賃金 than have smart メーターs. I have just received a message 明言する／公表するing that the 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 will now be £158 per メーター. Why has the 量 changed?

Together, we Britons 持つ／拘留する more than £900bn in 平易な 接近 accounts ideal for dipping into when we need to plunder our 貯金. Now an 平易な 接近 account with a 新たな展開 is 殺到するing in 人気; the 限られた／立憲的な 接近 取引，協定. Last week Paragon （機の）カム out with a new 見解／翻訳／版 which propelled it straight to the 最高の，を越す of the best buy （米）棚上げする／（英）提議するs.

The UK is one of the most expensive countries in Europe for childcare にもかかわらず さまざまな 政府 handouts to 緩和する the 重荷（を負わせる） on working families. The 普通の／平均（する） cost of a 十分な-time 50-hour-a-week nursery place for under two-year-olds is £430 a week in London and £308 in the South East of England.

A Sainsbury's 顧客 who lost £230 Nectar points to fraudsters has been directed to the police to 調査／捜査する, but it is not a recordable 罪，犯罪. Nectar, which Sainsbury's bought in 2018, has been beset by problems with 詐欺, but little seems to have been done.

The 365-day notice account is 存在 申し込む／申し出d by saving and 投資するing 壇・綱領・公約 栄える, in a 取引，協定 that This is Money has 安全な・保証するd 排他的に for readers. The account has a variable 率 跡をつけるing the Bank of England base 率 and comfortably （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域s the 最高の，を越す one-year 直す／買収する，八百長をするd 率 accounts.

My 隣人 has started keeping bees - is there any way I can 反対する to this? The starting point is that your 隣人 is する権利を与えるd to keep bees and if they 原因（となる） you no 害（を与える） or 重要な 問題／発行するs you will not be able to 反対する or stop your 隣人 just because you do not like the idea.

There's a new Chinese electric car brand that's coming to the UK next year - and one of its first models is a dinky city runaround. EV start-up Leapmotor will begin selling cars in nine European countries from September, having 完全にするd a 共同の 投機・賭ける with Vauxhall's parent company. It will then enter the UK market in March 2025. Leapmotor will 申し込む／申し出 two 殴打／砲列 models from 開始する，打ち上げる - the C10 SUV and the diminutive T03 (pictured), which could become Britain's cheapest EV. It will also become the 最新の example of a Chinese EV brand plotting to 製造（する） cars in Europe.

Homeowners who live in period 所有物／資産／財産s spend an 普通の／平均（する） of £70,000 to keep them looking good, によれば a Zoopla. The 所有物／資産／財産 portal 明らかにする／漏らすd that period?homeowners are spending more than twice as much in upkeep costs compared to 非，不，無-period 世帯s. In total, it 見積（る）s that period homeowners fork out の近くに to £70,000 on 普通の／平均（する） in 修理s and?維持／整備 during their entire time at a given 所有物／資産／財産.

The Golden Virginia and Rizla owner 明らかにする／漏らすd 逮捕する 歳入s from タバコ and next-世代 製品s rose by 2.8 per cent in the six months ending March. タバコ prices 拡大するd by 8.6 per cent, offsetting a 6.3 per cent 減少（する） in 容積／容量s まっただ中に broader market 拒絶する／低下するs as 消費者s ますます turn to safer 代案／選択肢s.

Tesco 長，指導者 exec?Ken Murphy (pictured) pocketed £9.9m as his £1.4m salary was topped up by 特別手当s and other awards and 利益s. His total was more than 二塁打 the £4.4m he collected the previous year and takes his total 運ぶ／漁獲高 since taking the reins of the country's largest grocer in October 2020 to over £20m.

買い手s of student accommodation are typically either 設立するd buy-to-let landlords looking for 賃貸しの income and 資本／首都 growth, or parents who buy a house for their child to live in while at university - to 許す them to live more comfortably and 潜在的に make money. Pamela Aitken of the Glasgow sales 開発 team at Savills, says the city's 人気 shows no 調印する of 病弱なing. Students often stay on after 卒業生（する）ing, thanks to good 雇用 適切な時期s in the area. Barclays and JP Morgan are の中で large banks in the city. Also 申し込む／申し出ing the 見込み of healthy returns are Newcastle upon Tyne and Durham.

If you 運動 a 特に big car, you could be 罰金d for parking in some public car parks. That's because five 地元の 会議s have introduced length 制限s on 乗り物s using their parking 施設s, with most setting a 限界 at 5 metres, which is shorter than a 範囲 Rover and Mercedes-Benz S-Class. And more than nine in ten 会議s have said they have no 意向 of making their parking bays bigger to 融通する today's much larger 乗り物s, which are said to be growing 1cm wider every two years.

The stamp 義務 削減（する） known as 多重の dwellings 救済 is 始める，決める to be 廃止するd in June, mostly 影響する／感情ing individual landlords - but big 所有物／資産／財産 companies say it could also 攻撃する，衝突する their 利ざやs. The 税金 break 申し込む／申し出s stamp 義務 救済 on 購入（する）s of two or more 所有物／資産／財産s in a 選び出す／独身 処理／取引, or in linked 処理／取引s.

Should the MPC have been bold and made a 削減（する）? What does it mean for our mortgages and 貯金? And when will a move come - and in what direction? This week, Georgie 霜, Simon Lambert and 物陰／風下 Boyce talk about the base 率 決定／判定勝ち（する） and what happens next.

Smishing is used by 犯罪のs to 的 消費者s with texts impersonating 信用d organisations, and often 含む／封じ込める a link to a fraudulent website. Evri said it had seen a 174% 増加する in 報告（する）／憶測d scams from April 2023 to April 2024 and had の近くにd 負かす／撃墜する more than 5,000 scam 場所／位置s, a 268% 増加する year-on-year.

We were never asked whether, if my husband should pass away first, the 年金s would pass to me his wife, so we were misinformed I believe. My husband is now 診断するd with dementia and I am going to lose the 年金s if he should pass away. Can this annuity be cashed in?

I have been reading an article on This is Money and thought you may be able to help out my uncle, Mr R, who has a £14,000 罰金 未解決の with Dartford Crossing. Last year, he moved house from London to Kent, and crossed the Dartford Crossing 多重の times. During this time, his account did not automatically 追加する more 基金s to 支払う／賃金 for these crossings , and as a result, he ended up with almost 80 PCNs. He doesn't know what else to do other than 宣言する himself 破産者／倒産した or try to get a 貸付金 for £14,000. We are at a 行う／開催する／段階 where （強制）執行官s are on his 事例／患者 day to day.

Buying 最高の，を越す-ups can be very 価値のある, but people are often 自信のない if this will be worthwhile. The 政府 has 開始する，打ち上げるd a new online service to check this and make 購入（する）s. There is usually a six-year 最終期限 for filling historical gaps in NI 記録，記録的な／記録するs, but a 一時的な 拡張 is in place that 許すs people to do this 支援する to 2006/07 - a special 取引，協定 that will last until 5 April 2025. Read our guide here...

The mortgage valuation has just come 支援する and valued the 所有物／資産／財産 at £40,000 (10%) いっそう少なく than what we are buying it for. We first tried to 交渉する the 販売人 負かす／撃墜する based on the valuation but they are not playing ball. The 広い地所 スパイ／執行官 示唆するd we try our luck with a different mortgage 貸す人 who might use a different valuer. How likely is it that a different valuer will come to a different 結論?

Gerald Seymour 発射 to fame with Harry's Game, his gripping 1970s 調書をとる／予約する 始める，決める against a 背景 of the Northern Ireland Troubles, which became a 攻撃する，衝突する TV 演劇, 令状s York Membery. Several of the 82-year-old's other thrillers - 含むing The Glory Boys and Red Fox - have also been adapted for the small 審査する. The father-of-two, who lives in Oxfordshire with wife Gillian, has sold three million 調書をとる／予約するs. He's just published his 40th novel.

Choosing the 権利 DIY 壇・綱領・公約 is 決定的な but a wealth of choice and a variety of 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s can leave 投資家s scratching their 長，率いるs. We 選ぶ some of the best. We 選ぶ some of the best. We also 最高潮の場面 why 投資するing in an Isa makes sense, as it should 保護する your hopefully growing 投資s from 税金 forever.