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A major consumer group has launched a legal challenge against the Financial Conduct Authority, claiming its £9.1billion car finance compensation scheme is unfair to drivers and benefits lenders instead.Consumer Voice warned millions of motorists could miss out on money they are owed and has formally told the regulator it will take the case to the Upper Tribunal.If successful, the challenge could force lenders to pay billions more in compensation. This is the first time a consumer group has taken legal action against a UK regulator over a compensation scheme of this kind. The FCA’s plan, introduced at the end of…

Of Stockport’s three games, two are at home, as they face Peterborough on Saturday, then already-relegated Port Vale at Edgeley Park on Tuesday before rounding off the season with a visit to Barnsley.Stockport missed out on automatic promotion last season having finished third, but were knocked out of the play-offs at the semi-final stage by Leyton Orient.”The disappointment for us is that the past couple of games, in my opinion, we’ve dropped points,” Challinor added.”We’ve got two home games. We can’t complain about anything else. We have to make sure we turn up and produce a performance on Saturday.”Again, it…

The England and Wales Cricket Board has appointed former national selector Ed Smith to its board as a non-executive director.Smith, who played for Middlesex and Kent and earned three Test caps, will join the ECB on 1 October when his one-year term as MCC President ends. He served as England men’s selector from 2018 to 2021, during which they won the World Cup on home soil in 2019. The ECB said that Smith’s role “will provide scrutiny and challenge, looking at the long-term strategy and governance of the whole game, including performance cricket”. Smith’s appointment comes after England’s miserable Ashes…

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Meanwhile the latest figures show, at the start of this year, there were more than 48,000 cases where somebody had waited more than eight weeks for a diagnostic test, which is 10,000 more than when Miles set his target of reducing this number to zero.