@jenin2 - have the police given you a timescalse for getting back to them? If you still have some time left I'd be inclined to agree with @honeybee13 that you should wait to see whether @Man in the middle turns up with good advice.

You are placing a lot of reliance on DCB have said that they will not be pursuing the case, though the case manager is still pending on it. I have a recording and an email from the land owner that they have been instructed to stop proceedings." UKPC are the claimant... nobody else! Don't take your foot off the gas on the strength of "he said, she said". It's not over until it's over...

Hi This is the link to the Welsh Government Guidance on the New Standard Occupational Contracts: (Note it actually answers the questions you are asking) Standard occupation contracts: guidance [HTML] | GOV.WALES WWW.GOV.WALES This guidance helps to explain the meaning of the terms included in occupation contracts.

I see someone has posted this as a Google Maps review. Couldn't have put it better myself Two things. Firstly, these are not fines, they are invoices, a private company doesn't have the power to issue fines. Fancy solicitors not knowing the difference! Secondly, there is indeed an industry-wide grace period so everyone getting these invoices for stopping for a few minutes should simply refuse to pay. GXS are highly unlikely to try small claims court, and if they did they would lose. Free legal advice is available on several consumer advice sites on the web.

@nickm911 I think that the sound level quoted by the manufacturer of any domestic equipment has to be measured by calibrated instruments in a specific way at a specified distance, although I don't know what that is for fans. You would need to research it. You could probably get the details by contacting the manufacturer and asking them how the <65db is measured. I doubt that just holding a smartphone app up to it would be accepted as evidence that it exceeded the advertised noise limit. Still, nothing ventured nothing gained. You can try. Let us know how you get on if you do.

@bitemarx Not a breach of GDPR because the new tenant is not a "data processor". GDPR doesn't apply to what we do in our everyday private lives, only to, essentially, companies and organisations.

If you can prove that then you have a basis for returning it on the grounds that it is not as described

Thanks. No wonder the highstreet is on the decline! I've just had a quick look at the specs Noise Level :＜65db It's way higher than this. My phone says its more like 100db even on the lower setting.

No In future you want to buy from Homebase then you should identify the item, possibly in store and then purchase it online. Then you can benefit from the distance selling rules.

I'm afraid to say that if I were the new tenant I would want you to sort out a mail redirect and talk to the council. You seem to have left them to deal with your problems. In their position I might also have given them your number to the debt collector for a quiet life. HB

maybe you dont have to admit the lie?...... simply state that as a responsible vehicle owner you now accept that it defaults to you and hold your hand up. dx

That would be far too simple and unprofitable. So I'm afraid not the big boys got rid of the smaller independent suppliers (competition) in this supposed fuel crises supposedly blamed on Ukraine although the price increase's were flagged 12 months before Russia set foot in Ukraine. No one has ever explained why the extortionate increases in layman terms but it seems coincidental to Teresa Mays price cap of 2017 predicted to last until 2023. The cartel now run the show you either pay or go without using their preferred payment method and predicted usage irrespective of your bank balance, they just take it...via Direct Debit. Oh and if your in a positive credit you try getting it back

Don't know the answer to your specific question but last time I looked at alternative suppliers (before the fuel crisis) even the suppliers who would let you do that charged you more for your gas/electricity than if you did DD. It was a condition of all their most competitive tariffs that you paid by monthly DD.

Unless you either want to pay more for your energy "on principle", or your energy supplier won't allow you to pay by direct debit, it works out about 6% cheaper to pay by DD. It would seem odd not to want to... Cut unfair direct debits - MoneySavingExpert