New year sees housing sales soar, says Rightmove

Number of housing sales agreed so far this month up 9% on last year, as pent-up demand continues to filter through, according to Rightmove By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 00:01 GMT, 18 January 2021 | Updated: 00:01 GMT, 18 January 2021 The number of housing sales agreed so far this month is … Read more

ARIA charts list of best selling artists for 2020 sees Harry Styles scoop the pool

Harry Styles and The Weeknd are 2020’s best selling artists on the ARIA charts – while only two Australian singers made the list By Marta Jary For Daily Mail Australia Published: 09:24 GMT, 15 January 2021 | Updated: 09:56 GMT, 15 January 2021 Australia’s ARIA (Australian Recording Industry Association) charts weren’t very Australian in 2020, … Read more

Parler exec sees Tim Cook as a possible ally after he offered to lift App Store ban

An executive at the beleaguered social media app Parler has said that Apple CEO Tim Cook is a possible ‘ally’ after he offered to allow the app back on iPhones if it purges certain content. Amy Peikoff, Parler’s chief policy officer, on Thursday highlighted Cook’s recent remarks saying that the app had been suspended, not … Read more

Car competition company Best of the Best sees revenues nearly treble

Car competition company Best of the Best sees shares rocket after revenues nearly treble as it becomes a fully digital business BOTB said the results were proof its move to a wholly-online format was working Its Weekly Lifestyle contests offer watches, motorbikes, and holidays as prizes Like a raffle, BOTB entrants bid a little money … Read more

HENRY DEEDES sees the Prime Minister face a grilling in the Commons 

Not since he emerged from ICU in April has Boris Johnson appeared so zapped. Perched in a committee room in Portcullis House, shoulders hunched, eyes drained of all enthusiasm, he looked as if he was steeling himself to sit through Ibsen. In Norwegian. Actually it was worse than that. The Prime Minister was facing a … Read more

HENRY DEEDES sees the Home Secretary talking tough about lockdown rule-breakers 

Enter The Enforcer. Priti Patel slowly click-clacked into yesterday’s Downing Street press conference, lower jaw out, forearms bared, camera lens fixed with her best ‘let’s be ‘avin’ ya’ glare. She had come to lay down the law. Too many people were flouting lockdown rules. Or, as she put it, ‘breachin’ regulations’. So once again the … Read more

MARKET REPORT: JD Sports sees sales boom

MARKET REPORT: As dresses and suits were shelved last year in favour of comfy working-from-home wear, retailer JD Sports saw sales boom By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 11 January 2021 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 11 January 2021 As fancy dresses and suits were shelved last year in favour of comfy … Read more

Coronavirus UK: Lockdown 3 sees RISE in drivers and walkers compared to first shutdown

The number of journeys being made on foot, by car and on public transport during England’s third lockdown is still significantly higher than in the first – but much lower than during the second, figures revealed today. The latest mobility data has shown pedestrians, motorists and people using trains or buses are moving around more … Read more

DAN HODGES sees alarming echoes of Trump’s America in Britain today

Back in 2018, I stood in a draughty aircraft hangar in Huntingdon, West Virginia, watching Donald Trump address his devoted supporters. It was the final week of the mid-term elections, and he was upbeat. His speech began as a standard brew of US new-dawn optimism, mixed with casual slaps at his Democratic opponents. Then it … Read more

This Bristol home sees price boosted by millions thanks to Banksy

Houses on the same street and of similar size should all sell for roughly the same price. That’s the general rule – and a logical one, too. Sometimes, however, that neat little equation is blown apart.  Never more so than last month when Aileen Martin was selling her blue-painted terrace house in the Totterdown area … Read more