Zoë Wood

Sydney

Writer and Contributor at The DIS

Travel writer and marketing consultant from Sydney Australia. Dis Contributor. Autism Advocate. Disney Enthusiast.

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Direct Line chasing me over dead uncle’s cancelled car insurance

1 week ago | msn.com | Zoe Wood |Zoë Wood

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Direct Line chasing me over dead uncle’s cancelled car insurance

1 week ago | sg.finance.yahoo.com | Zoe Wood |Zoë Wood

My uncle (RC) died last year and I’m his executor. When I checked his post I was surprised to find a bill from Direct Line addressed to the “executor of RC” stating a “final payment of £148 is overdue” for his cancelled car insurance. This was news to me as my uncle didn’t own a car. I was upset by this and contacted the insurer to suggest that it owed us money, not the other way round.
British shoppers embrace Eastermas

1 week ago | ca.finance.yahoo.com | Zoe Wood |Zoë Wood

Easter is nearly here, but it’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas as Britons decorate trees, buy pricey gifts and pull crackers. High street stores are decked with wreaths, baubles and table decor, although it is the Easter bunny, not Santa, that looms large. With shelves full of chick- and bunny-shaped trinkets it’s clear that putting up an Easter tree, or twig, is increasingly mainstream.
Lego drops diversity terms from its annual sustainability report

1 week ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Zoe Wood |Zoë Wood

Lego has cut diversity terminology from its annual sustainability report despite trumpeting the recent addition of “diverse” characters to make its toys more “inclusive”. Most recently the world’s biggest toymaker introduced sets featuring characters with sunflower lanyards, which are worn to indicate a hidden disability. At the time its chief diversity and inclusion officer, Lauren von Stackelberg, said the company was embedding diversity and inclusion in everything it did.
Royal Mail trials postbox with parcel hatch, solar panels and barcode scanner

2 weeks ago | ca.finance.yahoo.com | Zoe Wood |Zoë Wood |Joanna Partridge

Royal Mail has unveiled a solar-powered “postbox of the future” with a built-in barcode reader and a hatch to accept parcels larger than letterbox size. In the “biggest change to postbox design since their introduction more than 175 years ago”, the hi-tech pillar box looks as if it is wearing a jaunty beret. The black, chequered lid is in fact solar panels that power the scanner. The postbox’s extra-large opening hatch offers a new way for the postal service to cash in on a roaring parcel trade.
My daughter is still being pursued despite ScottishPower recalling £1,000 debt

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Zoe Wood |Zoë Wood

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My daughter is still being pursued despite ScottishPower recalling £1,000 debt

2 weeks ago | ca.finance.yahoo.com | Zoe Wood |Zoë Wood

While studying in Glasgow, my daughter lived in a rented flat with a prepayment electricity meter. Shortly after she moved out in the summer of 2022 she was contacted by ScottishPower about a £1,000 debt. Given it was a pay-as-you-go meter, we questioned how this was possible. But instead of investigating, the debt was passed to a recovery firm, which started chasing her for money in March 2023. The debt collection firm told us the £1,090 debt had built up between December 2017 and July 2022.
warning over big fees as homebuying season arrives

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Zoe Wood |Zoë Wood

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warning over big fees as homebuying season arrives

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Zoe Wood |Zoë Wood

Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
warning over big fees as homebuying season arrives

2 weeks ago | ca.finance.yahoo.com | Zoe Wood |Zoë Wood

The spring months are typically the busiest of the year in the housing market as buyers mobilise and sunshine adds to a property’s kerb appeal. However, today’s buyers – and those remortgaging – need deeper pockets than a few years ago. Not only does the average mortgage rate start with a “5” but borrowers face hefty arrangement fees to secure the best deals. These are the fees paid to lenders purely to secure a certain rate, and come on top of any conveyancing or broker fees.