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Banks are to offer 3-month mortgage holidays: Several High Street lenders are eyeing plan to set aside billions to help struggling homeowners hit by coronavirus Households hit by coronavirus outbreak could be eligible for mortgage ‘holidays’ NatWest, RBS, and Ulster Bank could offer up to three-month breaks in payments Those eligible could include small business … Read more
Rishi Sunak will today pledge billions to shore up the economy during the coronavirus outbreak. The Chancellor, whose first Budget has had to be rewritten as the deadly virus spreads, will unveil a string of measures to try to save solid businesses from bankruptcy. He will also announce a massive £600billion boost for infrastructure. Treble … Read more
Private equity giant Blackstone to pump billions into UK infrastructure projects By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:55 GMT, 24 February 2020 | Updated: 22:10 GMT, 24 February 2020 One of the world’s biggest private equity firms is ready to pump billions of pounds into British infrastructure projects in a resounding vote of … Read more
Deadly coronavirus outbreak is costing travel firms billions of pounds in cancellations and lost bookings with cruise firms facing a £500m hit after axing voyages to the Far East Airlines predict losses of £23billion this year after cancelling 100,000 flights The outbreak has also led to 300,000 fewer shipping containers leaving China So far the … Read more
Survey of billions of stars in the Milky Way ‘could have captured signs of intelligent life’ — and amateur astronomers are being encouraged to search for them SETI Institute experts are developing state-of-the-art ways to detect signs of life These ‘technosignatures’ might be laser emissions or structures orbiting stars The search will piggyback on the Very … Read more