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Aviva and Direct Line have stopped selling travel insurance to new customers in response to the coronavirus outbreak, the latest giant insurers to do so. Aviva said it was ‘necessary to make some changes to the travel insurance we can offer our direct customers at this challenging time’ but believed it was a temporary … Read more
A young woman who bought her first home after saving £35, 000 over seven years has revealed how you can do the same – by maxing out a lifetime ISA and putting away £500 per month. Amy Bunney, 27, who is an assistant campaign manager from Skipton, had been aware of the Government supplemented Lifetime … Read more
Governments worldwide have advised the public to wash their hands regularly amid the coronavirus pandemic. And now Mariah Carey, 49, has enlisted her twins, Moroccan and Monroe, eight, to help her to make their own PSA Tik Tok video. The trio shared a video of themselves all washing their hands at a sink in Mariah’s home … Read more
East Africa has confirmed its first case of coronavirus after a Kenyan woman tested positive for the illness. The region scaled up emergency measures to contain any further spread after the 27-year-old tested positive for COVID-19 in Nairobi. The woman was taken ill seven days after travelling back from the US via London on March 5. Health … Read more
A foldable phone made headlines last year that pulled inspiration from the late Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar and the company behind the device is back with a next-generation model – the Escobar Fold 2. Designed by Roberto Escobar, Pablo’s brother, the smartphone claims to be a ‘real Samsung killer’ at a fraction of the … Read more
The British teenager who avoided jail after being convicted of lying about being gang-raped by 12 Israeli men in Cyprus has relived her ordeal for a TV documentary. The woman, 19, flew home in January after being handed a four-month suspended sentence over the events of July last year in an Aiya Napa hotel room. … Read more
December’s operation targeted the ‘Ndrangheta families based in the southern Italian city of Locri in the Calabria region – the rural, mountainous and under-developed ‘toe’ of Italy’s boot and the heartland of the worldwide crime group. Despite intense police attention and frequent arrests, the ‘Ndrangheta – which derives its meaning from the Greek word for … Read more
The first trailer for the Quiz has been released, and it offers fans their first glimpse at ITV’s three-part drama based on the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire coughing cheat scandal. Michael Sheen takes centre stage in the preview as egendary presenter Chris Tarrant, while Succession star Matthew Macfadyen plays the army man who … Read more
A British man has told how bouts of the flu were worse than his experience with the life-threatening coronavirus spreading across the globe. Andrew O’Dwyer, whose age is not known, tested positive for COVID-19 after going on a ski trip with friends to the Italian Dolomites in February. He didn’t show symptoms for a week … Read more
Alex Salmond impersonated a zombie before sexually assaulting an SNP worker, a jury has been told. The alleged incident is said to have happened one evening at Bute House in Edinburgh in September 2014 – the month of the Scottish independence referendum. Salmond faces 14 charges of alleged offences against 10 women, all of which … Read more