Tesco Mobile offers to cut users' bills if they watch ads plus buy-to-let landlords win payout

Many people will do anything to avoid ads – but Tesco Mobile believes its customers won’t mind seeing more of them to get money off. Photograph: Alamy

Hello and welcome to this week’s Money Talks – a roundup of the week’s biggest stories and some things you may have missed.

Money news

Tesco Mobile offers to cut users’ bills by £3 if they watch extra ads

EU referendum uncertainty weighs on UK housing market

Vodafone customers warned to check bills after widespread complaints

Thousands of buy-to-let landlords will share a multimillion-pound payout after winning a legal battle against the West Brom building society. Photograph: David Sillitoe for the Guardian

Buy-to-let landlords win multimillion payout from West Bromwich

Nationwide cuts interest rates on cash Isa

Travellers fall victim to fake Airbnb site

Boys get more pocket money than girls, Halifax survey finds

Feature

For parents who work outside nine-to-five hours affordable childcare is even harder to find. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo

Out-of-hours childcare: expensive and ever harder to find

In pictures

A period end-of-terrace house for sale, currently fronted by a tattoo parlour. Photograph: Bairstow Eves Countrywide

Three up, tattoo down: a 15th-century home in Essex

In the spotlight

EU referendum Reality Check. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Ahead of this month’s referendum, we are looking at how the EU affects all aspects of UK life, including your mobile phone bill and your job.

Consumer champions

I have a great credit rating – but I can’t buy a smartphone on contract

Wardrobes don’t fit and Oak Furniture Land wants £350 to take them back

EE has given my pay-as-you-go number to someone else

Money deals

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