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Helen Knapman

Helen Knapman

News & Investigations Editor

Helen has over a decade's experience championing consumer causes and has worked as a personal finance journalist and editor on national titles since January 2011.

She has held her current role, MSE's News and Investigations Editor, since April 2023. Previously, Helen held senior positions at financial magazine Moneywise and at The Sun.

Helen covers all issues that impact consumers, and has played a pivotal role in MSE's Lifetime ISA and unusually high call volumes campaigns. Standing up for consumers, fighting for their rights, investigating injustices, and holding big firms and the powers that be to account is what drives Helen. She regularly appears as an expert for MSE on TV, radio and in print.

Helen was named as the Wincott Foundation's Personal Finance Journalist of the Year in 2019, having won the Online Financial Journalist of the Year at the 2013 Santander Media Awards.

In her spare time, Helen tries to practise what she preaches by bagging a bargain on everything from gym classes to globetrotting and dining out.

Latest from Helen Knapman

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Lloyds TSB has become the first of the major banks to unveil a junior cash Isa, over three months after the tax-free children's saving scheme was launched.
8 February 2012
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Home phone bills are set to shoot up over the next few months as Virgin Media, O2 and Orange have all announced price rises.
7 February 2012
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Future energy price cuts could be delayed as firms pay more for the power they sell us thanks to freezing temperatures and increasing demand.
3 February 2012
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Beware of unwittingly agreeing to pricey subscriptions when signing up for 'free' product trials online. 
2 February 2012
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A number of gyms are being investigated by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), to determine whether or not their contracts are unfair.
2 February 2012
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Water bills in England and Wales will rise by about £20 per household from April, regulator Ofwat has announced today.
31 January 2012
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Fewer students have applied to start university this year says admissions body Ucas, raising concerns it's down to confusion over higher tuition fees.
30 January 2012
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Up to 16,000 vulnerable households could miss out on help from a Government scheme to help cut their energy bills, lobby groups are warning.
27 January 2012
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O2 says it has now fixed a data breach which saw mobile internet users' phone numbers given out to websites.
26 January 2012
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Taxpayers have been given longer to avoid a £100 fine for filing their self assessment return late, because of a strike by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) staff.
26 January 2012
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Consumers with gift cards for fashion retailer Peacocks can no longer use them as the company has gone into administration.
25 January 2012
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Petrol prices look set to rise at the pumps, bringing more pain for hard-pressed motorists, warns the AA.
20 January 2012
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Four million Virgin Media customers who get broadband via cable will get faster internet speeds for free.
19 January 2012
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Consumers using unauthorised overdrafts find it virtually impossible to calculate how much their bank or building society would charge them or compare fees between providers, research from consumer group Which? has found.
17 January 2012
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New switching bribes mean for the first time five major providers have hardcore promotions vying for the coveted best-buy crown.
10 January 2012