Posted on 06 October 2011. Tags: Finance
Families returning from holiday who took out a Ryanair prepaid card face hefty ‘inactivity’ fees if they do not use the card every six months.
The budget airline has just launched its Cash Passport, advertising it as a way to avoid booking charges on its flights.
But these cards come with strings attached. Customers who do not use their card for six months will be charged £2.50 each month. And if you spend all your money on the card, or your remaining balance is eaten up by charges, you will be charged a ‘negative balance’ fee of £10.
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18 January 2013
State schools should copy the private sector and set up army cadet forces to help build character and instil a sense of self-discipline in their pupils, Labour said today. Schools should also recruit more ex-armed service personnel to act as mentors to their pupils, according to the party’s education spokesman, Stephen Twigg. Speaking at a [...]
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18 January 2013
A 10-year-old boy was today hailed Britain’s most dedicated Cub Scout – after earning all 54 badges in just two years. Tristan Gee has achieved one new badge every two weeks since he joined his troop in 2010 and has so many he almost ran out of space on his cub jumper. The schoolboy joined [...]
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20 April 2012
In the long-running tradition of cute kids narrating things on YouTube, BBC America presented this gem Thursday: children supposedly auditioning to replace narrator David Attenborough on its hit nature series Planet Earth. In honor of Earth Day, BBC America is playing the full, uncut version of the nature docu-series for the first time on April [...]
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