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Rip Off Britain

Factual: Consumer

Series 16

The Rip Off Britain team is ready to tackle the issues you feel affect you the most.

The Rip Off Britain team is ready to tackle the issues that most matter to you - from bills and bad customer service, to holidays and food.

Simulcast of network BBC One in high definition. From 03/11/2010

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The BBC West region started on 1st September 1957 as part of the BBC Television Service, before becoming BBC One West.

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The BBC South West region started on 20th April 1961 as part of the BBC Television Service, before becoming BBC One South West.

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The BBC East region started on 1st May 1959 as part of the BBC Television Service, before becoming BBC One East.

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Formerly part of a wider BBC One South East region that included London and part of the South region. Separated from BBC One London 2001-09-03 following reorganisation of the South East region.

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Rip Off Britain: Series 4

Julia Somerville

Gloria Hunniford

Angela Rippon

Lucy McLennan

Rob Unsworth

Rip Off Britain: Series 4: Episode 20

Episode 20

Series 4

BBC One - Rip Off Britain, Series 4, Episode 20

How a couple's plans for retirement went awry.

Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville meet the woman who learned that she owes her bank more than six times the amount she thought she had borrowed.

Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville battle on behalf of viewers who feel they've been ripped off or had a raw deal - and try to get their problems resolved. 

Among today's stories, a woman whose bank has told her she owes more than six times as much as she thought she'd borrowed, why one couple's plans for retirement have left them relying on their son to pay the bills, and how pensioners encouraged by their bank to invest in a product described as low risk have ended up losing their money.

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Angela Rippon and the team expose some of the rip offs that are costing British consumers.

Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville return to their journalistic roots to expose some of the rip offs that are costing British consumers.

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