If you’ve resolved to improve your finances for the new year …

We asked a range of experts to set out a strategy to tackle all the most common money problemsIt’s a new year and many of us are looking for a fresh start after a very difficult 2021. We’ve asked a group of experts for their advice on how to tackle som…

UK public warms to road pricing as fuel duty replacement considered

Almost four in 10 back road pricing to replace fuel duty and other taxes as people switch to electric carsRoad pricing is seen as a fairer possible system to raise revenue than fuel duty and motoring taxes, thinktank research has found.The switch to el…

UK faces ‘grim winter’ with households already paying £442 extra in bills

Analysts warn cost of living crisis is gathering pace amid fast rises in petrol, food and energy billsWatch out for hidden ‘shrinkflation’ price hikes, analysts warnRising inflation ‘could trigger global sell-off that would harm UK’Households face a “p…

‘It was war’: school-run parents tackle petrol crisis traffic chaos

Residents set up traffic patrol to challenge drivers forming long polluting queues near London schoolBounds Green primary school sits on a road so busy it has a bridge for a pedestrian crossing. Even on a good day the air is acrid, suffused by mephitic…

UK car sales plunge but electric vehicles soar to record amid fuel crisis

Global chip shortage helps push car registrations to lowest level for more than two decadesThe number of electric cars sold in the UK last month neared the figures for the whole of 2019, with panic-buying at the petrol pumps expected to accelerate cons…

The lesson of the fuel crisis? Hell hath no fury like a lorry driver scorned | Zoe Williams

Whether you consider the petrol blockades of 2000 or this year’s anger over shortages, it’s clear that farmers and hauliers are genius protestersI remember the last petrol crisis, in 2000, although when I say “remember” I mean I was there – I have very…