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Investors plough savings into the market to dodge rock-bottom rates

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While the pandemic has wreaked havoc on vast swathes of British business, trading firms are in the pink. Households are estimated to have built up around £100billion of extra cash in lockdown as spending on everything from travel to meals out evaporated. Many of these ‘accidental savers’ have looked for ways to put this money … Read more

Build build build! Rishi Sunak pledges to plough £100bn into rail, roads, homes and broadband

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Rishi Sunak vowed to plough £100billion into road, rail and broadband projects yesterday. The Chancellor refused to renege on the Government’s plan for ‘once-in-a-generation’ infrastructure spending. Despite the Covid hit to the economy, he said he was pressing ahead with the highest sustained level of public investment in more than 40 years. Mr Sunak told … Read more

Savers plough cash into stocks and shares ISAs 

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Savers shun rock-bottom savings rates and plough cash into stocks and shares ISAs By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 22:10 BST, 20 October 2020 | Updated: 22:30 BST, 20 October 2020 Business is booming for investment platforms as savers who stored up extra cash over lockdown flocked to the markets to put it … Read more

Shocking moment driver, 24, uses her Vauxhall Corsa ‘as a weapon’ to plough into mother-of-three, 25

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Shocking moment driver, 24, uses her Vauxhall Corsa ‘as a weapon’ to plough into mother-of-three, 25, from behind minutes after pulling knife in row over a man – as she’s jailed for three years Bonnie McGuire, 24, was sentenced to 38 months behind bars after the crash She had driven at Ellemae Fitzgerald, 25, after a … Read more

Father and son, 46 and 14, plough massive love letter to health workers into field in Oxfordshire

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Farmer’s big note of thanks to our NHS heroes: Father and son, 46 and 14, plough massive love letter to health workers into their 20-acre field in Oxfordshire Ben Farmer, 46, and his son Tom, 14, mowed a heart and ‘NHS’ into their field The father-of-two, from Oxfordshire, wanted to show his support for the … Read more

Great British Boltholes: A review of the Kingham Plough in Kingham, Oxfordshire

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Great British Boltholes: Take a tour to Jeremy Clarkson’s local in Oxfordshire, which offers six bedrooms and tender pheasant pie The Kingham Plough in Oxfordshire is ‘handsomely decorated’, says T. D. Isacke The restaurant has just been given a Good Food Award for Gastro Pubs There are also six bedrooms spread across the main building and an … Read more