It’s monday, it’s July and it’s raining so one thing’s for sure: the English summer is here. Finance-wise, house prices are down*, the BoE base rate has remained at 0.5% and the Economy is up. So it’s a mixed bag of good and indifferent and still very much a situation to keep your eye on.

Closer to home, payment protection insurance claims continue to flood in to the Ombudsman but with unemployment still high (2.5 million at the last count) and May’s figures due for release this week, the number of people protecting themselves with good PPI is at an all time low. This of course can have some serious consequences, some of which are discussed in an article from today’s Telegraph…

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