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CONSUMER CHAMPION The

By James Walker

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This will start from 30 October – but bear in mind that not every bank or building society will be ready till the end of 2018 – so stay vigilant.

To celebrate all things cheque related, here’s a few of my favourite myths and facts:

Do you still have a dusty old cheque book lurking around in a drawer somewhere? Maybe it’s gathering dust with that paying in book you last used in 1997.

It’s easy to think that cheques are things of the past – but last year 477 million were issued in the UK. So, cheques are clearly still being used way more widely than as an occasional gift from your great aunt.

It’s just been announced that banks are finally agreeing a new clearing system that should allow cheques to clear in one day instead of the current six.

It comes as a surprise to people when they find out how the current clearing system actually works – and why it takes up to 6 working days to clear a cheque. When you pay your cheque in, a ludicrously complicated system starts, that involves posting (yes posting) cheques to clearing centres, scanning them, contacting the other bank, double checking everything (and looking for fraudulent cheques and drafts), confirming the money is there and so on. This is known as the ‘2-4-6 timescale’ because on day 2 you start to get interest on the money, on day 4 you can technically withdraw the cash, but only on day 6 can you be sure it won’t bounce.

And it’s that last point that’s the killer. Many, many people contact me each year after selling a car or other big items through auction websites, think a cheque or draft they’ve received has cleared then get a nasty surprise after they’ve handed over their goods and the cheque bounces.

The new rules cut out all the faffing of sending

• Cheques are old: The rules about cheques date back to 1882 and the basic principles have stayed more or less the same.

• In principle, you could write a cheque on anything, as long as you included the details mentioned in the Bills of Exchange Act. Many people swear blind that a man once wrote a cheque on a cow but I’m afraid it’s an urban myth - though plenty of people have tried to use a cow-cheque as a publicity stunt over the years. Fraud rules now mean standard cheques must be used so your bank won’t be in the moo-d if you bring a cow in.

• Cheques didn’t used to have expiry dates, leading to some tricky situations where people tried to cash old one’s years later.

Most now come with a 6-month expiry date.

• You can’t ‘post-date’ cheques either. Well, you can, but most banks will ignore cheques that have a date on in the future and will just process them. Lots of people used to postdate cheques back in ‘the old days’ but it was generally the person or business who received the cheque who held on to it till the date in question.

• Fraudsters love cheques. By far the most widespread scams involve exploiting the clearing cycle to get sellers to release goods in exchange for stolen or forged banker’s drafts and cheques. Never release goods paid for by cheque until your bank confirms that the payment has cleared.

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Ten metres away, in a dense shrub, a male Blackbird, beak full of worms and grubs, watched and waited. A highpitched noise like the squeak of a gate sounded above the anxious churring of Blue Tits and chirping of House Sparrows.

The squeak was a warning to keep silent. The Magpie flew away, seemingly thwarted. Only after a few minutes did the Blackbird move; through the garden, pausing on various branches to check for danger, then disappearing into the upper tangle of ivy branches where the nest of young was hidden.

Magpies are clever nest predators. They will watch smaller birds going to a likely site, seek a nest out, drive off the adult and take the eggs or young. Sometimes the mate will lure adult birds away from the nest, allowing the seeker in to help himself to the meal, unmolested.

Nature is red in tooth and claw. The lion does not lie down with the lamb. “But, please, not here” we say. “Not my Blackbirds.” But only one in four Blackbird nests are successful and if a nest is predated they will usually try to raise young again.

In the days when gamekeepers slaughtered Magpies, more songbird nestlings survived but more died in the winter. As gamekeeping declined the increasing Magpies moved into the suburbs and the effect on songbirds was noticeable. Generations had not suffered this danger and their nests were easily found. They had to relearn and they did. The prediction that Magpies would cause extinctions of songbirds did not come true and, today Blackbirds still sing in chorus at dawn.

Predation only causes extinction when the balance is upset. The foxes, gulls and crows grow numerous on our refuse and outnumber the Lapwings that have few damp fields left for food and breeding. We should blame ourselves for the declines, not the predators.

The Magpie has returned many times, and is back even now when the Blackbird chicks have left the nest and are hidden in the dense shrubs. The father has changed the defence strategy when the Magpies come by, clucking loudly, a call to arms to its mate to be ready to try and drive the enemy away.

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TRAVEL - PEmbRokEshiRE The

By Tim Saunders – www.travelwriter.biz Miles and miles of sandy beaches. This was an absolute revelation when my family and I visited Wales. We’d been driving for about four hours and noticed a sign for Port Talbot, which was our first introduction to the country’s splendid coastline.

Surprisingly, it was not packed with sun worshippers either. We paddled and then returned to the car for the final leg of the journey to Pembrokeshire.

An hour or so later we arrived at West Grove Barns in the village of Hundleton where we stayed in the Beech barn conversion.

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Pembroke appeals to ramblers and we initially questioned whether it was appropriate for a young family with a tandem pushchair. But we quickly realised that the area could appeal to everyone.

For obvious reasons, we were attracted to a place called Saundersfoot, home to another wonderful golden stretch of sand. Finding free parking was nigh on impossible and as with many places around here there were many one-way streets and hills. It was a bit windy and, not fancying sand in our sandwiches, we headed for the nearby park.

Walking the coastal path, we passed through some dark tunnels and savoured the views out to sea, treating ourselves to ice creams along the way.

Folly Farm, about 20 minutes from base, was a child’s paradise and both Harriett and Heidi thoroughly enjoyed this attraction. I tried to show Harriett how a goat was milked but she seemed more interested in steering a tractor. There were some unusual animals here not least the Fossa, a bit like a cat which could eat lemurs if the mood took it. There are only 60 in the world. Harriett found it very difficult to leave Folly Farm because of the John Deere pedal tractors and the enormous sandpit where there were various vehicles including her favourite Land Rover.

Unfortunately, we didn’t get time to try our hand at operating a real digger.

The National Trust manages much of the Pembrokeshire coastline and at Bosherston we endured a gruelling walk with our pushchair to one

of the best beaches in Wales (if not the UK) - at Stackpole.

No matter how many bumps, rocks and steps the scenery was so picturesque and the effort was richly rewarded. On our way, along narrow paths, we passed an enormous pond of waterlilies home to frolicking otters and dancing dragon flies. In time, we arrived at the beach for Harriett to build sandcastles and pour sand over her tired and unsuspecting daddy. She found this particularly amusing.

“Was Roald Dahl, the children’s author, Welsh?” questioned Caroline looking at Barafundle, the name of the last sandy beach we visited. He was born in Llandaff, Wales in 1916. You can see how such strange place names might have inspired his creation of hornswogglers, snozzwangers and Oompa-Loompas in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. For us, Barafundle was the icing on the cake. We asked a National Trust volunteer whether it was possible to take a pushchair along the route to this beach and he reckoned it was despite there being about 50 steps. After the previous day’s experience, we decided to ignore his judgement and thankfully so because it turned out to be an arduous trek up steep steps and across fields. He clearly had a sense of humour. Harriett walked and we took it turns to carry Heidi. It would have been impossible with our tandem buggy. Half an hour or so later we found ourselves entering a wonderfully sandy beach through an old stone archway and many more steps. Sitting in the shade of the cliff edge above, we avoided the heat of the day. It was common for the weather to be a bit dull in the mornings and then by 2pm or 3pm the sun would appear and the temperatures soared. Parents have little time to relax but Caroline and I probably grabbed five or ten minutes where we could just sit and savour the magnificent rugged coastline.

The video of Barafundle at travelwriter.biz gives you a little flavour of what this beach is like. One of the most cherished memories of this holiday for me was paddling with Harriett here. Such carefree times. Unsurprisingly this marvellous landscape appealed to the likes of the artist JMW Turner. The Pembrokeshire coastline really was a joy to behold and truly uplifting.

When travelling to Wales there was a great sense of being abroad thanks to the distinctive language and the Welsh were extremely friendly people, too.

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