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The BBC North East & Cumbria region started in 1959 (tbc) as part of the BBC Television Service, before becoming BBC One North East & Cumbria.

BBC One North East & Cumbria

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

BBC One HD

Simulcast of BBC One Scotland in high definition. From 14/01/2013

BBC One Scotland HD

Simulcast of BBC One Northern Ireland in high definition. From 24/10/2012

BBC One Northern Ireland HD

Simulcast of BBC One Wales in high definition. From 29/01/2013

BBC One Wales HD

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

BBC One West

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

BBC One South West

The BBC South region started on 5th January 1961 as part of the BBC Television Service, before becoming BBC One South.

BBC One South

BBC One London

London

BBC One West Midlands

BBC One region covering Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire.

BBC One East Midlands

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

BBC One East

BBC One North West

BBC One Yorkshire

BBC One Oxfordshire

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.

BBC One South East

BBC One Cambridgeshire

BBC One Channel Islands

BBC One Yorks & Lincs

BBC One Scotland

Scotland

BBC Northern Ireland region started on 19th April 1955 as part of the BBC Television Service, before becoming BBC One Northern Ireland.

BBC One Northern Ireland

BBC One Wales

Wales

Rip Off Britain: Series 5

Gloria Hunniford

Angela Rippon

Julia Somerville

Lucy McLennan

Rob Unsworth

Carla-Maria Lawson

Rip Off Britain: Series 5: Episode 14

Episode 14

Series 5

BBC One - Rip Off Britain, Series 5, Episode 14

The team meet a couple whose possessions disappeared after they hired a shipping company.

Consumer series. Stories in this episode include a couple whose worldly goods have entirely disappeared after they paid a shipping company to transport them home.

Julia Somerville, Angela Rippon and Gloria Hunniford get to the bottom of why viewers who have, in some cases, forked out thousands of pounds have ended up with nothing in return. Stories in this episode include a couple whose worldly goods have entirely disappeared after they paid a shipping company to transport them home. Can the team find out where they have gone? Plus, a money-making opportunity that has fallen flat, the driving test website that is not what it seems, and why cashback deals are not always as straightforward as you may be led to believe.

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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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