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Call For PPI Claim Firms Crackdown

There's a call for tougher action to be taken against companies who make PPI claims on your behalf. The consumer group "Which?" says 70% of people have been cold called by firms like this.

There's a call for tougher action to be taken against companies who make PPI claims on your behalf. The consumer group "Which?" says 70% of people have been cold called by firms like this. Payment Protection Insurance was mis-sold on a massive scale to those who did not want or need it.

Isla Whitcroft, an author from Towcester, says she has been harassed by people pushing PPI claims. Stuart talks to Jenny Driscoll from "Which?", to Barry Johnson who runs a Financial Advisors firm in the village of Blisworth, and to John Mitchison, the Head of the Telephone Preference Service.

Plus:

* as Wellingborough's market faces relocation, how well supported are local markets?

* people in Northamptonshire with visual impairments could be hit hard when disability benefits change later this year

* as Science and Engineering week continues, local motorbike racer Maria Costello explains how Northants engineering expertise helps her

* "Boris Bikes" planned for Northampton

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Tue 19 Mar 2013 06:00

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