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Banks withdraw savings accounts after base rate is slashed to a joint record low of 0.25% By Fiona Parker For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 GMT, 13 March 2020 | Updated: 21:59 GMT, 13 March 2020 Banks and building societies have rushed to pull more than 25 savings accounts, dealing another blow to long-suffering savers. … Read more
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Banks and building societies have already started slashing rates on some of the best savings deals, just two days after the Bank of England announced an emergency base rate cut to 0.25 per cent. Three of the seven highest-paying easy-access accounts have either been pulled from sale or seen their rates cut, while some of … Read more
Two American troops and one from Britain were killed, and about a dozen people were wounded when 15 small rockets hit Iraq’s Taji military camp north of Baghdad on Wednesday, said U.S. officials. The number of U.S. troops injured has not been confirmed. The officials said it was too early to assign blame, but any … Read more
The Bank of England has slashed its base rate by half a percentage point to 0.25 per cent, the steepest rate cut since the 2008 financial crisis. It said the emergency cut, the first reduction since August 2016, was to counter the ‘economic shock’ of the coronavirus outbreak. After two years at 0.75 per cent, … Read more
Global markets were plunged into chaos this week after their worst day since the financial crisis of 2008. More than £150billion was wiped off the value of leading companies on what was dubbed the new ‘Black Monday’, raising concerns that we are heading towards a global recession. But while panicked traders speak of ‘utter carnage’, … Read more
Lady Gaga gives a shout out to ‘Little Monsters’ fan base while enduring an ice bath as part of her recovery routine By Kevin Kayhart For Dailymail.com Published: 03:06 GMT, 2 March 2020 | Updated: 03:06 GMT, 2 March 2020 Lady Gaga has a unique, three-stage, post-performance recovery process that includes sitting in a frigid … Read more
‘That was easy peasy!’: Six-year-old adventurer’s reaction after she becomes the youngest Briton ever to reach the 17,500ft Everest Base Camp Ashleen Mandrick, from West Sussex, completed the epic journey that challenges even the fittest of adults The youngster walked unaided with her 11-year-old brother Nicolas and her mother Victoria in December They started their … Read more
The ticket seller at Sorrento’s ferry port looks up from his mid-morning snack and says: ‘I call this my island dream: prawns from the sea, lemon from the trees. Delizioso!’ Discovering a poet in a ticket kiosk is a good start to the day as I board the ferry for Ischia — one of three … Read more
It’s one of the most disturbing tours in the world. Deep in the Ukrainian countryside near Pervomaysk lies a perfectly preserved nuclear launch site – and visitors can clamber inside and be shown around the workplace of Soviet soldiers tasked with destroying America, should the order have come through from the Kremlin. And yes – … Read more