A very warm welcome. I'm Georgie Frost. You're listening to consuming issues here on Share Radio. I'm with you from 9 until 1 every weekday making the pound in your pocket go a little bit further. The team from This Is Money, the award-winning finance section of the mail online,

join me in the studio for our weekly catch-up.

Editor Simon Lambert, journalist Lee Boyce, here today to talk through the top stories

that they've been investigating, including how long before the sub 1% home loan.

The cheapest ever fixed-rate deals break new ground in the mortgage price war?

But, be warned, read the small print.

With calls for more protection as well for private renters, our rent controls the answer.

They should have longer tenancies, five-year tenancies.

We need to crack down on rogue landlords, revenge

evictions and the worst conditions that you see in private rented homes.

Also, can we trust our banks? Millions more put aside for dodgy doings. Profit drops, branch

closures, it goes on, will it end? And has anything been learnt from the financial crash?

We are regulating the banks much better now.

The banks have more money stashed away in their vaults.

What's worrying is that there's still too much debt.

Could diesel cars become a thing of the past?

Now you can really put your money where your mouth is

by investing in your favourite sports teams.

And the summer is coming.

Fire up the lawnmower as the battles hot up.

And it's the final.

This is money.

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