Breaking news
Failed driving tests in the UK produce almost two million kilograms of carbon dioxide in a normal year, according to new research. The pass rate for driving tests in the UK is less than half and each trip spews out carbon dioxide and other emissions, just like every journey in a petrol or diesel powered … Read more
Investors could face higher bills after compensation bill for victims of mis-selling and collapsed firms tops £1bn By Rachel Rickard Straus For The Mail On Sunday Published: 11:46 GMT, 14 February 2021 | Updated: 11:46 GMT, 14 February 2021 Savers and investors face higher product and advice charges this year as a result of a … Read more
Longing to get back together with an ex-partner is a natural feeling for many singletons, no matter how the relationship ended. But relationship counsellor Mig Bennett, of Crowborough, East Sussex, believes that not all relationships can be rekindled. Speaking to FEMAIL, Mig explained why so many of us find it difficult to let go of … Read more
Britain and the US both spent seven times more on vaccine development than the EU, figures reveal – with both nations now outpacing the bloc’s beleaguered rollout. The UK committed £1.67billion on Covid vaccines before it was known whether they would be effective – more than the £1.57billion the EU spent on behalf of 27 … Read more
Many elderly women lost out on state pension because junior civil servants failed to manually update their individual records during past decades, it has emerged. Well over a 100 government staff are now working to assess and manually correct individual records and more are being assigned to sort out the ‘significant legacy issue’, MPs have … Read more
NS&I ignored savers without the internet before making the decision to axe Premium Bond cheques in the post, insider reports reveal. The savings giant has been accused of abandoning older customers in its drive to axe prize warrants to save money and paper. Now Money Mail has discovered that the bank only consulted customers with … Read more
Boris Johnson is reportedly flying to Scotland this week ‘to save the Union’. Why? It’s not as if he hasn’t anything better to do, apart from the small matters of dealing with a global pandemic and the economy going to hell in a handcart. Yet the Prime Minister is about to drop everything to race … Read more
1603 James IV of Scotland becomes James I of England, after succeeding Elizabeth I. From this point on the nations have the same monarch. 1707 England and Scotland are formally joined in the Act of Union. 1934 The Scottish Nationalist Party is formed, calling for the creation of a separate Scottish assembly. 1942 The SNP … Read more
‘I fell off the wagon MAJORLY’: Amanda Holden reveals she failed her first attempt at Dry January after 19 days as she admits ‘now it’s all over’ By Rebecca Davison for MailOnline Published: 11:02 GMT, 20 January 2021 | Updated: 11:02 GMT, 20 January 2021 She set herself the challenge of completing Dry January during … Read more
Retailers across the UK have been struggling for years due to online competition and rising cost like rents and business rates. But the arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic was the final nail in the coffin for many of them. With ‘non-essential’ stores forced to close down to comply with and lockdowns and restrictions to curb … Read more