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Low cost airline, Ryanair, have announced plans to introduce an extra levy on significantly overweight passengers.

Budget airline Ryanair looks set to impose a ‘fat tax’ on overweight individuals who choose to take advantage of their cut-price flights.

This decision follows a survey of 100,000 Ryanair customers, 29% of whom were in favour of a ‘levy on the heavy’.

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Keep your wits about you because, whilst a recession is bad news for most of us, it is all just more ammunition for the ID fraudsters and money scammers.

We've got recession, strikes and snow, but not the prices to match, more's the pity...

With domestic energy bills rising, it is tempting to think that investing in renewable energy gadgets could be a money-saving wheeze. But the more you look at it, the less it makes sense.

OK, so it’s hard to imagine the supreme being huddled behind a computer checking emails from his flock. But let's suspend disbelief, just for a moment....

Rising food prices have forced many of us to think again about our shopping and eating habits. So what is everyone eating?

As 2008 drew to a close few of us will have mourned its passing, but what should we expect from 2009? More of the same, or light at the end of the tunnel?

For most of us, Christmas is a time for giving. But not everyone feels that way. For some, Christmas spirit signals a time of easy pickings and a chance to help themselves to our hard earned cash.

While most of us count the pennies this Christmas, for some money is no object.

Seven high street banks are appealing a High Court ruling over unfair bank charges. But when it comes to extracting money from customers, the banks are past masters - as a quick scan over their terms and conditions will testify.

Every week, millions of people buy lottery tickets in the hope that this week, finally, it will be their turn to win big. But is being a lottery millionaire all it’s made out to be? Not according to this sorry bunch...

A VAT holiday might amount to no more than a gigantic headache for retailers - only time will tell ' but Darling's income tax move does not go far enough.

Falling prices are good news in the short term, but it's down to us to spend our way out of recession....

Tax cuts are all the rage, but they can either be a short term sticking plaster (followed by a hefty bill) or the beginning of a concerted effort to balance an inherently unfair system. I know which I’d prefer...

The sleek shall inherit the earth. Obama's landslide owed as much to style as substance, but what does a new America mean for us (and our wallets)?

Can supermarket cashiers selling expensive credit cards be a good idea?

Until recently, 'retro' was all about fashion and music as flares and disco made unlikely comebacks. But now we’re all looking back to the future...

With inflation at a sixteen year high, when will we see the full benefit of plummeting oil prices?

Part-nationalisation of British banks is an economic necessity for all, so why the long face?

Is sensationalist reporting and apocalyptic political rhetoric helpful?

The light at the end of the tunnel turns out to be a Lehman Brothers shaped train.

Don't shed too many tears for Lehman Brothers and their ilk, but do look at the bigger picture...

With recession seemingly inevitable it's time to reign in the spending. But what is the nation doing to tighten its belt?

Stamp-duty concession won’t make a blind bit of difference to home sales and it won’t help Brown either.

Tax on energy profits would raise much needed money, but complications show that control of a basic necessity is now firmly out of our hands.

The rising price of food and caution at the checkouts has forced the supermarkets to resort to ingenious methods to persuade us to keep spending.

So-called packaged current accounts are all the rage but paying for things twice has never been a good idea.

It now seems we are all going to be even poorer in our dotage than we might have imagined, so that telegram from the queen might turn out to be cold comfort - literally.

Savings rates are at their highest level for seven years, so if you have some extra cash, save it for the rainy days to come.

The banks won't have to pay back 'unfair' charges for at least another six months after the FSA gave into their delaying tactics. Money talks, as ever.

The government and the ABI have struck a deal to ensure that most of us will be able to buy home insurance, even if our homes are at ‘significant risk’ of flooding. All well and good, but what's the catch?

The British government plans to form a database of every call, text message or email sent in the UK but are these new proposals really as controversial as they seem?

Advertisers use a big fat bag of persuasive techniques and messages to make a financial product or service look as attractive as possible. Can you see past their headline message?

When someone says "We should all waste less food" it’s very hard to disagree. Really, there is no excuse for chucking out one third of all the food we buy is there?

There are two ways to deal with a leaking bucket. You can either keep topping it up, or fix the hole…

Energy prices set to rise 40%. Maybe we should make an effort to save the planet after all…

“This two year fixed mortgage seemed like a good idea two years ago…”