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2020 OLYMPIC GAMES The 2020 Olympic Games has been postponed until 2021 on March 24 – becoming one of the last major sporting events this summer to fall victim to the coronavirus. Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe held a crucial conference call with Olympics chief Thomas Bach on Tuesday to formally decide a plan and … Read more
Natalie Portman brilliantly captures how life has changed since COVID-19 hit with a hilarious ‘then vs now’ post showing her glam then binge eating By Dan Heching For Dailymail.com Published: 18:38 GMT, 27 March 2020 | Updated: 18:38 GMT, 27 March 2020 With everyone home for weeks with no end to the spreading coronavirus pandemic … Read more
First Direct PULLS current account and its £100 switch bonus for new customers as it focuses on existing ones amid coronavirus outbreak The HSBC-owned bank has said its current account is ‘temporarily unavailable’ It has 1.45m customers and is known for its top customer service HSBC and NatWest have also pulled switch bonuses as banks … Read more
The New Year brings with it a handful of new lucrative current account switcher offers – worth up to £175. Switching is something many of us put off, with a third of customers sticking with the same old bank we opened our first account with, despite bad service, hefty fees and little reward for our … Read more
Starling Bank slashes the interest rate it pays to in-credit current account customers by up to 90% Starling currently pays 0.5% on balances up to £2,000 and 0.25% above that From 18 May these rates will be cut to 0.05% Starling blamed the Bank of England’s emergency base rate cut Could others like Nationwide and … Read more
Halifax has told holders of its Reward current account they will have to opt into potentially paying a £3 monthly fee for it, under changes coming in at the start of June. Customers will have to pay in £1,500 a month or be billed £3, while the bank is also revamping the account’s cashback offer. … Read more
Tracy Grimshaw is pulled from A Current Affair because Tom Hanks’ wife used her dressing room before coronavirus diagnosis – as Karl Stefanovic steps in to replace her By Monique Friedlander For Daily Mail Australia Published: 06:00 GMT, 12 March 2020 | Updated: 06:37 GMT, 12 March 2020 Channel Nine is taking steps to protect … Read more
The Government will fall well short of its pledge to make England a smoke-free country by 2030, a leading charity has warned. A Cancer Research UK report projects it will be at least 2037 before that ambition is met, if current smoking trends continue. Rates would need to drop 40 per cent faster than they currently … Read more
How to create electricity out of thin air: Scientists generate electrical current from moisture in the air and say it could soon be used to power smart watches ‘Air Gen’ device consists of a thin film of conductive nanowires made of protein Fine pores between the nanowires generate a current between two electrodes Air Gen … Read more
We’re in the midst of winter and many Britons are likely to have been daydreaming about a summer holiday since January. Some, who play the Avios game, could be looking to earn enough air miles to pay – or part pay – for the next trip. As a rule of thumb, the best way to earn … Read more