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Rip Off Britain

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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 8

Rob Unsworth

Chris Walker

Rip Off Britain: Series 8: Episode 2

Episode 2

Series 8

BBC One - Rip Off Britain, Series 8, Episode 2

The team meet a couple whose builders caused the entire house to collapse.

Documentary exposing the rip-offs that are costing British consumers. The team meets a couple whose builders caused the entire house to collapse.

The team investigates one of the most genuinely shocking cases ever featured on the programme, meeting a couple whose builders were booked to convert the basement - but instead caused the entire house to collapse to the ground. With the blame so clear, why has the situation proved so difficult to resolve?

Also in this episode, the brand new homes with a catalogue of fundamental errors - including a roof that has already had to be replaced three times. And why choosing a trader from websites apparently listing the best in the business doesn't guarantee you will get the right result.

Presented by Julia Somerville, Angela Rippon and Gloria Hunniford.

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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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