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England’s Covid-free zones: 12 local authority areas that are home to 2.4m people report ZERO infections in last week while London has just 94 cases In mid-April most of 12 areas had 50-100 cases a week, showing huge decrease Torbay has had no cases for 4 weeks and Rutland has had no cases for 2 … Read more
Mortgage holiday debt threat: FCA warns homeowners face paying thousands of pounds in extra interest By Money Mail Reporter For The Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 26 May 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 26 May 2020 Interest threat: The FCA has warned on mortgage holidays Homeowners who have deferred their mortgage payments are being warned … Read more
Government urged to bring in laws preventing firms bumping up prices of items like hand sanitiser and face masks during coronavirus pandemic By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:13 BST, 18 May 2020 | Updated: 22:13 BST, 18 May 2020 The competition watchdog has urged the Government to bring in emergency laws preventing … Read more
A local council is seen spending £150,000 removing three football pitches worth of waste left by fly-tippers in a North London suburb, on tonight’s ITV documentary ‘Fly Tipping: Britain’s Lockdown Problem’. This week the government told councils to prepare to reopen tips after seeing an increase in fly-tipping since the lockdown, a problem highlighted after … Read more
Amazon’s investment in Deliveroo is given the green light by the watchdog due to fears the delivery service would go bust without it The Covid-19 lockdown is causing grave financial harm to Deliveroo’s business Takeaway.com’s £6.2billion takeover of its rival Just Eat has also been probed Deliveroo was started by two American expatriates Will Shu … Read more
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo called President Donald Trump ‘schizophrenic’ for claiming he has ‘total authority’ over the states to reopen the country. Cuomo pointed out Trump left it up to the states to buy their own medical supplies and to issue stay-at-home orders during the coronavirus crisis, arguing the president can’t accede that responsibility to the states … Read more
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has rebuked President Trump’s claims that he has blanket authority to order a reopening of the country and cease stay-at-home orders, saying Monday night that the last time he checked the US had ‘a constitution…not a king’. In a heated press conference inside the White House on Monday evening, Trump … Read more
Tony Hetherington is Financial Mail on Sunday’s ace investigator, fighting readers corners, revealing the truth that lies behind closed doors and winning victories for those who have been left out-of-pocket. Find out how to contact him below. B.N. writes: I looked for a safe investment for £20,000 and came across Wellesley & Co, which advertised … Read more
Let us not lose our Britishness, and forget who we are, in the midst of this crisis. We are after all a people who have endured many troubled times, and grown in freedom and in civilisation as a result. This is a new sort of threat, from a creeping, silent and invisible virus, not an … Read more
Competition chief bares his teeth: JD Sports deal just the latest to be questioned by watchdog By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 23:09 BST, 11 February 2020 | Updated: 23:09 BST, 11 February 2020 Getting tough: Former chairman of the Treasury Select Committee, Lord Tyrie, joined the CMA in 2018 JD Sports has … Read more