Abbey launches packaged current accounts

Abbey has recently joined the long list of banks now offering customers the opportunity to sign up to a packaged current account, and officials from the bank are hoping that on top of the other achievements that Abbey has enjoyed this year, such as the acquisition of Bradford and Bingley and a larger share in the mortgage market, it will also be able to lure customers away from other banks by offering the packaged current account. Read more

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Survey shown AA low down in breakdown rankings

Many people class the AA as a household name when it comes to breakdown services, and many may think that the AA provides one of the best breakdown services. However, according to a recent survey the AA actually came pretty low down the list in terms of its breakdown services, with a survey that involved interviewing over 32,000 drivers showing that the motoring giant only came eleventh. Read more

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‘Be open’ with your car hire company

Tourists travelling abroad this summer and planning on renting a car should be honest with the hire company, particularly if they are thinking of doing anything “slightly out of the ordinary” such as driving across the border to another country.

Neil Greig, the director of the IAM motoring trust, has said that drivers taking their hire car into another country risk invalidating their car insurance.

However, he noted that this is not always the case and holidaymakers can safely drive from Spain to Gibraltar without negating their insurance.

“It is always worth checking the fine print because if you do end up having an accident you may not have breakdown cover [or] you may not have insurance cover if you actually damage the vehicle,” Mr Greig warned.

According to Which? people are often unaware that there is often a large excess, sometimes more than £1,000, when hiring a car abroad.

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