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Starved savers struggling to find a decent return may be better off using their cash to reduce their mortgage bills instead. Savings rates have hit a record low after halving during lockdown, with all the big banks now paying out just 0.01 per cent on easy-access accounts. Anyone seeking a home for a sizeable sum … Read more
Boris Johnson is facing a Tory backlash for failing to downgrade the two-metre social distancing rule, amid warnings it is causing ‘economic devastation’. The PM is coming under growing pressure to relax the instruction, which is hampering the return of schools and crippling swathes of he economy. Senior Conservatives are increasingly furious, with some branding … Read more
Former Post Office staff who were bankrupted and given criminal convictions over the Horizon IT scandal have been handed as little as £500 in compensation. Hundreds of postmasters, once pillars of their communities, were removed from their posts or dragged through the courts accused of thieving from their own tills. But after a decade-long legal … Read more
British tourists last night attacked the Government’s ‘pitiful’ response to Italy’s coronavirus crisis. Furious passengers set to travel to Italian cities hit by the outbreak said they had been left in the lurch with no official safety advice. As other countries ramped up advice not to travel to the Italy crisis zone, Downing Street insisted … Read more