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"public transport is so good"

We can but dream - but definitely not going to happen in my lifetime.

From yesterday's Mail on Sunday:-

A £2,215 car renewal costs the biscuit

Saga wins the award for the most outrageous insurance premium I’ve seen so far this year. It was received by Janet Clark, a 64-year-old administrator from Woodford Green in Essex.

Last month she received the renewal premium for her Mercedes B200, a car that she drives no more than 5,000 kilometers per year. She also hasn’t filed a motorcycle claim in at least 20 years.

Last year the premium was £371.04. This year it was £2,215.03 per year, fixed for the next three years.

Covered: Saga wins the award for most excessive insurance premium so far this year

Covered: Saga wins the award for most excessive insurance premium so far this year

Renewing your policy, Saga said in Janet’s renewal announcement, “means another three years of hassle-free insurance.”

“I thought there was a typo in the renewal price,” Janet told me last week while spending a few days at a Spanish boot camp with colleagues from her local gym. “I doubted the quote twice, but it was correct.”

Although Saga offered her a £40 loyalty discount, she looked elsewhere and was offered cover from Aviva for £756.96 (one year only, not fixed for three years).

She tried a tactic her husband had used successfully at Saga earlier this year and asked the insurer if it matched Aviva’s quote. It didn’t work, so she went with Aviva.

“I accept that I have had an exceptional deal with Saga over the past three years,” Janet said. ‘But £2,215 is the biscuit.’

Did your insurer take the cookie? Email me at jeff.prestridge@mailonsunday.co.uk.

Received mine via iDealing.

So, JoeBrumfield, RobertGregg21 and ChadEspino are all the same person?? How many more aliases do you have and what's the point?

Long term holder here and happy that the SP has held up pretty well following the jump on Friday.

Https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/09/07/hydrogen-fuel-plane-fly-london-rome-test-flight-h2fly/

Had a quick look at the M&S website. A lot of pretty negative reviews of the Sosandar products from purchasers with a lot of those saying they would be returning the item.

Maybe customers are more likely to review when unhappy than when they are happy with their purchase???

Unfortunately I purchased the bulk of mine prior to that..............but still live in hope.

If they do I think you'll find that it wasn't.

Just compare their range and prices with the competition (e.g. Richer Sounds)

I would have though that would be a pretty meaningful event and therefore they would have to announce it via an RNS as soon as it completed - not "keep it very close to their chest".

Just watched excellent (in my view) results presentation.

Will definitely pick up a few more shares, especially if it dips below 400p.

Https://www.standard.co.uk/business/don-t-stop-the-music-and-my-ps2-billion-fund-b1098390.html

Well, I guess he would say that, wouldn't he?

Https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-12351645

Https://www.h2-view.com/story/germany-doubles-domestic-hydrogen-production-target-to-10gw-while-planning-import-strategy/

"We intend to announce our 2023 Annual Report for the 52 weeks ended 28 May 2023 on 25 July 2023."

That's Tuesday.

Seems as though the market not overly enthused by MM's rather wooden reading of autocue during presentation and maybe more are coming to the same conclusion as jlovie.

Still a fairly big holding for me and keeping my fingers crossed that "value will out" --- eventually.

When I first invested it seemed clear, but now it seems like I don't benefit fully from the deals being done, and can't help thinking I've been conned.

If by "deals being done" you mean new songs being purchased that's becasue the company doesn't have the money to buy more catalogues. If you mean increases in royalty rates, synch deals announced (TV ads) and performaces (Superbowl) then yes we do benefit as they all increase the income for the existing catalogues.

"Brilliant news as it means saga retail margins should go up as it becomes a smaller proportion of the overall cosst of insurance"

Except for all those three year fixed price policies they wrote where, presumably, they will be losing money and no chance of policyholders looking elsewhere until the three years are up.

I don't think it matters. Have a look at hat the Bid and Ask prices were when you purchased. Any purchase below the mid point of Bid/Ask will automatically show as a sell and above mid point will show as a Buy.

Below mid point - computer says SELL.

Hydrogen heating trials have been called off in Ellesmere Port after local protests.

The Department of Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) confirmed on Tuesday that a trial will no longer take place in the Whitby area of the Cheshire town.

Trials had been proposed for Whitby, as well as Redcar in Teesside, involving hydrogen boilers being installed in around 2,000 homes.

Cadent, the gas distribution network for Whitby, and Northern Gas Networks (NGN), the network for Redcar, submitted rival bids earlier this year to test the feasibility of a home-heating grid run without natural gas.

But the plans prompted a backlash from homeowners in both areas, with concerns that hydrogen is less safe, less energy-efficient and more expensive than gas or electric heat pumps.

Over £161 million in royalties being paid out

That's £21 million more than July last year, an increase of 15%.