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Sep 2024
1h 8m

Mortgage Special: Time To Fix? Will Rate...

Bbc Radio 5 Live
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The main topic the week is everything you need to know about mortgages.

There is also an update for savers and Martin explains a legal challenge to the UK and Scottish Governments' decision to cut the winter fuel payment.

And the Tell Us got a huge response looking at what people did with their first pay packet.

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