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Rip Off Britain

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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.

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Rip Off Britain: Series 7

Angela Rippon

Gloria Hunniford

Julia Somerville

Rob Unsworth

Caroline Short

Rip Off Britain: Series 7: Episode 16

Episode 16

Series 7

BBC One - Rip Off Britain, Series 7, Episode 16

The team investigate houses under attack from plants and trees.

Consumer series. The team investigate houses under attack from plants and trees and what happened to one woman's family silver after she trusted an expert to sell it.

Houses under attack from plants and trees are one of the topics investigated by Julia Somerville, Angela Rippon and Gloria Hunniford in this edition of the programme that battles on viewers' behalf to get problems resolved. Also among the stories, what happened to one woman's family silver after she trusted an expert to sell it? Plus the latest on a company that left hundreds of investors without their apartments in the sun, and the homeowners adapting to life on a deserted street where other properties are up for sale - for just one pound.

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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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