The Government wants us to get heat pumps fitted in our homes and it’s offering up to £7,500 for us to do so.

Now Worcester Bosch is bumping that up by an extra £2,500 – if you pick one of theirs of course.

But with the devices cost between £8,000 to £30,000 to buy and fit, would it tempt you? Georgie Frost, Helen Crane and Lee Boyce reveal all… and talk the ‘boiler tax’.

Is inflation back on the rise? How worried should we be by the latest figures? And where next for interest rates?

And millions face a big price hike for their mobile and broadband from March. Isn’t it time these inflation-busting mid-contract increases were banned?

Also today…following campaigning by This is Money for years for fair treatment for parents who do not qualify for child benefit, parents denied state pension credits WILL get them. Tanya Jefferies explains all you need to know.

Tanya also talks about a bungled handover to a new administrator that has left BAE Systems retirees suffering drastic cuts of up to 50 per cent in their pensions.

And Crane is on the Case, this time over a robot vacuum cleaner…

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