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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.

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Rip Off Britain: Series 6

Gloria Hunniford

Angela Rippon

Julia Somerville

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Rip Off Britain: Series 6: Episode 18

Episode 18

Series 6

BBC One - Rip Off Britain, Series 6, Episode 18

How the wrong advice meant making a complaint cost one man tens of thousands of pounds.

Consumer series. The team investigate mysterious flooding that is seriously damaging a home, and a church whose solar panels fail to generate a profit.

Julia Somerville, Angela Rippon and Gloria Hunniford get to the bottom of more consumer complaints. 

Among the stories in this programme, the couple whose home is being seriously damaged by mysterious flooding that no-one wants to take responsibility for, and the mix-up that has meant a church hoping to make pennies from heaven, thanks to solar panels, has not generated the profits it has hoped for and now regrets ever having them installed. 

Plus, the T-shirt designer astonished to see designs very similar to her own on sale in one of Britain's biggest stores. 

And how the wrong advice meant making a complaint cost one man tens of thousands of pounds.

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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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