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Four clever new ways to build up your savings without even noticing you're doing it

Life is full of unpleasant financial surprises, from the car packing up to the boiler giving up the ghost.

The trouble is that a large number of us don’t have any savings to turn to when those unexpected bills come in. A study by Skipton Building Society earlier this year found that around a quarter of us have no savings at all.

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