The Serious Fraud Office announced a new investigation into three companies delivering government energy efficiency contracts.

Consumer Voice is to apply to the upper tribunal for a review of the scheme.

Ofgem is to be ‘transformed’ to strengthen consumer protection under the first major update to its scope since it was founded in 2000.

Some 45% of adults are concerned about their ability to pay their energy bill, up from up from 29% in January, debt charity StepChange said.

Three, O2 and Lycamobile were the lowest performing networks in the survey of more than 5,000 mobile users by Which?

The change will see QR codes applied to the packaging of 13 lines of Tesco’s own-brand sausages following a trial.

Argos and The Entertainer have reported ‘massive’ sales spikes of the Lego’s Artemis rocket and other space-related toys.

The urgent safety notice relates to models manufactured by Haier and also sold as Baumatic, Candy, Caple, Vacuum, Iberna, Lamona and Montpellier.

Overall, credit is £179 million higher than last year, Uswitch found.

Lidl and Iceland are the first retailers to fall foul of the new rules, which came into effect at the beginning of this year.

Total retail sales increased by 3.6% year on year in March, driven up by the early Easter boosting an increase in food sales to 6.8%.

Total UK footfall was up by 2.4% year on year, although this was distorted by the month’s inclusion of Easter, which fell in April last year.

The UK’s biggest grocer said the new feature would use information gathered through its Clubcard scheme to provide ‘genuinely intelligent’ help.

Based on personal income, those earning between £30,000 and £35,000 have bought the most using resale platforms this year, KPMG found.

Easter lamb prices have increased by up to a fifth due to weather ‘shocks’ hitting the UK, according to the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit.

Consumers will have to be allowed to cancel easily online if that is where they originally signed up, ending lengthy waits on the phone.

Ofgem’s price cap has dropped from £1,758 to £1,641 – a reduction of £117 or around £10 a month for the average household.

Households are facing an onslaught of bill rises from April 1.

Just over 40% of shoppers bought at least one pack of hot cross buns in the past four weeks and 30% bought at least one Easter egg, Worldpanel said.