Slash the costs of getting Sky

There’s a great loophole allowing you to get Sky TV for just £6 a month. Until the end of March, new customers who sign up to a Sky package via a cashback website can get £150 back.

If you’ve a BT landline, you'll get a year's basic TV package, including installation, plus broadband, and free evening & weekend calls for just £72 a year - the equivalent of £6/month.

Considering most cheap broadband packages by themselves cost £10/month, this is a ridiculously cheap deal.

The way it works is that a number of the top cashback sites (websites that give you a slice of the advertising revenue companies pay them to promote their products) will pay you £150 if you take out Sky during March.

Full information on this Sky Loophole is available in the Forum note, plus read Martin’s guides to Cashback Sites and Digital TV Cost Cutting for further information.

Grab the best ISA

Barclays has just launched the top-paying tax-free cash ISA, which gives a whopping 6.5% interest. The rate includes a 1% bonus for the first 12 months and the deal, called The Tax Haven Isa, comes just in time as the deadline to use your current £3,000 cash ISA allowance during the current tax year ends in exactly one month; on April 5.

The only downside with this ISA is you can't transfer ISAs from previous tax years into it. And while existing Barclays customers can apply online, over the phone or in branch, new customers must apply in branch.

Read more information on the Top ISAs in Martin’s full guide.

£1 Manchester to London train tickets plus 50% off a young person's railcard!

If you need to travel between London and Manchester before 25 April then Virgin Trains is offering single tickets for just £1 for travel on a weekday. You’ll need to hurry as there aren't many left, but even if you miss out on them you still be able to get tickets for less than £10, which is still a pretty decent price.

And while you’re at it, if you’re aged between 16 and 25 you can also get a half-price young person’s railcard which gives you one third off train travel around the whole of the UK. These railcards usually cost £24 but if you go to www.youngpersons-railcard.co.uk/voucher/12 (this is a tracking link as National Railcard allowed us to publish this offer code as long as we let it track how many MoneySavers use it - there's no commercial relationship) before 16 March and enter the code "SAVING12" you’ll get it for just £12.

Full details on how to slash the cost of rail fares are in Martin’s Cheap Train Fares article.

Have fun for free if you’ve a name like a fish

And finally, we’ve found a fishy way of blagging yourself free entry to Chessington World of Adventures. To mark the launch of its new Sea Life Centre, it’s offering the first 100 guests a day, with a fish-related name, free entrance to the park from March 21st to the 24th. So if you’re a Pike, a Salmon or if your name’s simply Ray, then don’t let this offer slip through the net!