Valuable information for your holiday plans

Published 19 August 2008

Keep an eye on the young

Published 19 August 2008

IT’S not easy keeping children entertained during a long journey.

No Nintendo – but at least I might get my cash back

Published 29 July 2008

WHEN reader Kim Bell won a Nintendo DS for £73 on online auction site Ebay, she was over the moon.

Four ways to stay safe with online auctions

Published 29 July 2008

EBAY offers the following advice to people buying items through its website:

Frosty response over fridge woe

Published 29 July 2008

Number’s up for collector of rare vehicle plates

Published 22 July 2008

INVESTING money normally involves shares or property development, but for one Barrow resident, collecting rare number plates has always proved a fruitful enterprise.

Are you in the picture for digital television?

Published 22 July 2008

ARE you ready for the digital switchover?

Co-op payouts confusion

Published 22 July 2008

ACTION Desk has received a number of emails and phone calls from Co-operative members who think they may be entitled to a dividend.

All Mavis wanted was her dividend

Published 16 July 2008

WHEN the Evening Mail reported last month that Co-op shoppers in Cumbria were sharing a £528,000 dividend windfall, pensioner Mavis Dulieu was looking forward to receiving her £47 reward.

We help Annette deal with a £700 power bill problem

Published 16 July 2008

A BRITISH Gas customer nearly exploded when she received a bill for over £700.

Deal with doorstep salesmen?

Published 16 July 2008

SOME of our readers have expressed worries regarding door-to-door salesmen preying on older members of society.

Nurse Lucy’s hen night almost sent the feathers flying

Published 3 July 2008

YOUR wedding day is supposed to be the happiest day of your life.
Unfortunately for Lucy Clackett, her hen night plans went disastrously wrong when hotel company Travelodge took £585 out of her bank when she had only opted to pay a £59 deposit.

Join in fight to hunt out those duff pavements

Published 1 July 2008

POTHOLES on our roads are normally just a nuisance motorists have to contend with, but for older people in Barrow the pavements can be as much of a minefield.

‘Obstacle course’ slammed

Published 25 June 2008

THIS is the absurd obstacle course disabled residents are forced to negotiate on a pavement in Millom.

Dish the dirt – who’s to blame for car crunch?

Published 25 June 2008

A WOMAN whose car was damaged when a dishwasher fell out of a skip has spoken of her disgust at the council’s U-turn in accepting responsibility.

Ex-mayor under fire for state of flat

Published 17 June 2008

A BARROW landlord and former town mayor has come under fire due to the state of one of his properties.

Holidaymaker falls 15ft down manhole

Published 17 June 2008

A HOLIDAYMAKER who was texting on his phone one minute says he found himself at the bottom of a 15ft hole the next.

‘Rainy day’ savings a thing of past

Published 17 June 2008

“I’M going to put this money aside for a rainy day” – not something you hear very often these days if the findings of a new survey are to be believed.

Esther left without any gas by United Utilities

Published 17 June 2008

A PENSIONER was forced to survive without hot water or heating for over a week after an energy company left her without any gas.