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Investors have piled in to ethical funds in droves after the coronavirus pandemic forced British homes and businesses into lockdown earlier this year. Between January and September a massive £7billion poured into environmental, social and corporate governance funds, up from £1.9billion over the same period a year earlier, according to the Investment Association. Experts posit … Read more
Rishi Sunak is readying billions of pounds more for infrastructure, the NHS and defence in what looks like a final splurge as the coronavirus crisis hammers the public finances. The Chancellor will use the spending review on Wednesday to push ahead with huge investment on schools, hospitals, colleges and prisons to meet Tory election pledges. … Read more
Well off middle-aged savers pile cash into personal pensions during coronavirus crisis, but old and young put in about the same or less Average value of contributions into Sipps by 30 to 39-year olds rose by 34.7% Among 40 to 49-year olds, the increase was 18.3% Interactive Investor’s research was based on its own Sipp … Read more
A Russian medical worker has revealed the grim toll that coronavirus is taking on the country as he filmed the bodies of dozens of victims packed into a morgue. ‘Corpses everywhere, corpses, corpses,’ the man can be heard saying as he gives viewers a tour of a corridor and dissection room that is typically used … Read more
Welsh ‘fire break’ lockdown rules Supermarkets can sell only ‘essential items’ Pubs and restaurants closed Only leave the house to shop for food, medicine or take exercise Household mixing banned indoors and outdoors Most secondary school children will stay at home Work from home wherever possible Wear face masks indoors and on public transport Revellers … Read more
The choice of former Standard Life Aberdeen chief executive Keith Skeoch as interim chairman of audit and governance watchdog the Financial Reporting Council could not be more timely. A series of missteps by big audit firms, with Ernst & Young (EY) caught in the headlights, has refocused attention on the potential for audit failure. In … Read more
A tricky new brainteaser is challenging players to spot the odd pillow out in a colourful illustration. The seek-and-find puzzle, created by British sofa and carpet specialist ScS, has stumped many with more than 70 per cent of players admitting they can’t solve it. It took those who could find the pillow an average of … Read more
Diversity’s polarising Britain’s Got Talent performance is still receiving complaints almost two weeks on, with TV regulator Ofcom receiving 24,041 to date. The routine, which narrated the senseless death of black man George Floyd beneath the knee of a white police officer, divided fans after it aired during the live show on Saturday September 5th. … Read more
A couple’s ‘dream’ £1.5million country home on a historic estate has been turned into a building site by a scaffolding company illegally expanding their operation next door. Mike Tattum and Jane Bell’s say their rural idyll at Hadham Park House in the Hertfordshire countryside has been blighted by 50ft tall black fencing, portacabins, floodlights and … Read more
Boris Johnson’s Britain and the Donald Trump administration in the US have handled the Covid-19 pandemic the worst, according to a study. Just 46 per cent of Britons and 47 per cent of Americans think their government has coped well with the coronavirus. In comparison, 95 per cent of people in Denmark believe their country’s politicians … Read more