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You and Yours: Fashion and Gaming; Packaged Bank Accounts; Cornishware Revival;

19/12/2019

Fashion and Gaming; Packaged Bank Accounts; Cornishware Revival;

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Are accounts with benefits like travel insurance or breakdown cover worth it?

The entrepreneurs who bought the ailing Cornishware company after the crash. Ten years on the distinctive blue and white pottery is thriving and production is back in the UK.

Esport is where people compete playing video games in front of a big live audience, and watched by millions online. One of the most popular games, League of Legends, has just turned ten. Now these games are starting to create new trends in fashion and music, that are also spilling into real life - from the luxury brand Louis Vuitton's Esport themed line, to pop groups impersonating characters in the game. 

Tableware used to be a massive manufacturing industry in the UK, not so much any more. The distinctive blue and white banded Cornishware brand went into liquidation after the crash. It was saved, but production moved abroad. Ten years on, its fortunes have turned and production has slowly been returning to the UK. We talk to Charles and Karina Rickards about reviving a heritage brand for the Instagram generation.  

And, complaints about packaged bank accounts continue in spite of a Financial Conduct Authority rule that banks should make sure they only sell them to suitable customers. These are accounts you pay for and they come with benefits, often travel insurance or breakdown cover. If you need those things, then that could be a good deal, but we're hearing that these accounts are still being sold to people who don't need them.  Are they ever worth having?

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