If you’ve received an unwanted or spam text, what should you do?

Over the last couple of months I’ve received a healthy crop of texts from companies that seem to think I’ve had a car accident (‘claim £3750 for your injury’) or been mis-sold payment protection insurance. Funnily enough, I’ve not injured myself in a car accident or bought a PPI policy. But neither am I able to stop the texts.

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How is money you've inherited treated if you and your husband/civil partner split up?

Recently I’ve had a few questions to the ‘ask the expert’ section from women who are contemplating divorce – or whose husband wants to split up – and who have either recently received an inheritance or are due to receive one. They’ve wanted to know whether the inheritance will be included in the ‘pot’ when sorting out finances post divorce or the dissolution of a civil partnership.

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People with dementia are being scammed by rogue salesmen and companies and sold products and services they don’t need.

There are three quarters of a million people in the UK with dementia and – according to research by the Alzheimer’s Society – a minority of them (around 15%) are being scammed. It’s not a new problem, but as the number of people with dementia increases so, it seems, does the number of scammers. What should you look for and what can you do?

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