Dear listener,

I am so sorry you were deprived of your newsletter last week. Not by me - who wrote it – nor by the Money Box producer who sent it as normal to the gremlins who run our computers. But... by the gremlins themselves. I suspect they found it so interesting they passed it round among their friends and, faint with excitement, forgot to send it out to you. So on behalf of the gremlins - sorry.

Anyway, if you are reading this newsletter the problem has been sorted. And if you are not... well you'll still be sitting at home wondering when on earth last week's newsletter will arrive.

This week – 21 June – we present shocking new evidence from the police that card fraud cases are drying up after the system of reporting fraud was shifted to the banks – a change we told you about two months ago. And the banks admit they do not know how many cases are being passed on to the police. Meanwhile experts say criminals are getting away with it.

We ask the crucial question: is buy-to-let forcing up house prices and keeping first time buyers out of the housing market? One top housing expert tells us it is. And he wants changes to the tax system to discourage buy-to-let landlords. But the Landlord's Association tells us... I think you can guess (and you can Have Your Say on this topic on our website).

A savings bank is accused of misleading its customers over a high interest rate offer that lasted just two weeks. One listener transferred money to his account to take advantage of it but found banking delays meant it did not arrive in time for him to benefit. The bank says it will look at its literature in future.

And there's more support for the one and a half million people who lost money when the insurer Equitable Life came to the brink of disaster in the year 2000. European MPs says the government was to blame and should pay compensation. But the report's author admits she has no power to make that happen.

You can hear all these stories on Money Box – live on Saturday at noon, repeated Sunday at 9pm and any time (after the broadcast) on the web www.bbc.co.uk/moneybox

Best wishes,

Paul Lewis

PS Don't forget, I do a live preview of one Money Box story every Saturday on BBC1 Breakfast between 8.45 and 9. Tune in to find out which one!

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