Celestine on BBC Money Box

[EXC]

Legal Beagles' Celestine will be appearing live on the BBC Radio 4 Money Box show at 12.00 today in connection with their piece on the £28m mis-selling fine handed out to Lloyds by FCA this week.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03lkmpt

[TUTTSI]

Re: Celestine on BBC Money Box

I will be out can you put the link up after the recording so that we can all hear it?

[QCKate]

Re: Celestine on BBC Money Box

Legal Beagles' Celestine will be appearing live on the BBC Radio 4 Money Box show at 12.00 today in connection with their piece on the £28m mis-selling fine handed out to Lloyds by FCA this week.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03lkmpt

Thank you. I will definitely listen and have told family and friends...........

QCK

[enaid]

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Are we sitting comfortably?

[Amethyst]

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Pension industry accused; Steve Webb MP; Auction safety

Duration: 30 minutesFirst broadcast:Saturday 14 December 2013
Every year 400,000 newly retired people buy an annuity - a pension for life. But there was coruscating criticism this week of the way annuities are sold. 'Excessive' profits, 'hidden' commission, 'weak' regulation - just three of the phrases used by the Financial Services Consumer Panel which advises the Financial Conduct Authority. After years of reviews and endless guidance why is the annuities market still broken? And are pensioners really being burgled?
Everyone who has already reached state pension age by 5 April 2016 will be able to buy extra pension from October 2015. Details of the scheme were published yesterday but failed to answer the key question - how much will it cost? The maximum boost is expected to be £25 a week. And we know the deal will be cost neutral. So even an extra £1 a week index-linked for life is likely to cost at least many hundreds of pounds to buy. The Pensions Minister explains why he's doing it and why he isn't revealing the price.

Lloyds Bank was fined a record £28 million this week for paying staff huge bonuses to sell insurance and investments to customers with little regard for their suitability. It earned £212 million in commission from the potentially unsuitable sales of more than a million products to nearly 700,000 customers. But the bank expects to pay compensation to less than 12,000 of them. It will choose who gets it. And its customer complaint lines are still high-cost 0845 numbers.
A well-known auctioneer refused to give a refund when a smoky quartz Faberge seal which it sold for £2600 turned out to be a fake. After Money Box intervened the auctioneer did pay up - nine months after the sale. But what are your rights when you buy at auction and the item is not as it was described?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03lkmpt

[Amethyst]

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Well done Celestine. Bit of a rushed section at the end of the pension annuities but you got all the main points across really well.
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[Amethyst]

Re: Celestine on BBC Money Box

LISTEN NOW - Kate's bit starts at 18:30 mins into the programme

• Annuities 14 Dec 13
  
  Sat, 14 Dec 13
  Duration:
  25 mins
  
  Available:
  30 days remaining
  The pension industry is accused of 'burgling' pensioners annuities. Pension top-ups and Lloyds mis-selling fine.
  Download 12MB (right click & "save target as / link as" or just click the link to open listen box )

[Nibbler]

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Direct link to start iplayer at 18mins 30s.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b03lkmpt/?t=18m30s

[QCKate]

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Are we sitting comfortably?

Celestine you were just fantastic. Prepare for a flood of new members I suspect!!!

Well done and thank you again for all your doing.

QCK

[Inca]

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'Ere,,Kate,,where'd you get that posh voice from? We all know you sound like ARFUR MULLARD + LAUGH LIKE TOMMY COOPER....did you have to pay a dubber????
But seriously,,well done chick,,shame you forgot to invite the Mandela signer,,we could have made a fortune :santa_wink:

[enaid]

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But seriously,,well done chick,,shame you forgot to invite the Mandela signer,,we could have made a fortune :santa_wink:

We thought as it was radio, he would be even less use than he is on show :santa_cheesy:

[Inca]

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msl:..........now that was a classic 'blonde' moment by me enaid........can I still blame jet-lag?????????

[EXC]

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Celestine will be making another appearance on BBC Radio 4 Money Box tomorrow (Saturday 8 February at 12 noon) in a pre-recorded piece talking about copy cat website scams.

[TUTTSI]

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Can you please put up a link tomorrow....Ta x

Celestine will be making another appearance on BBC Radio 4 Money Box tomorrow (Saturday 8 February at 12 noon) in a pre-recorded piece talking about copy cat website scams.

[ODC]

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We need to get her on to talk about DCAs using the Insolvency Service as a debt collection tool. Make the Leeds Leeches squirm