Adele shares heartfelt tribute to the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire on three-year anniversary

Adele has shared a heartfelt tribute to the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire on the three-year anniversary of the tragedy.  The singer, 32, took to Instagram on Sunday to honour the 72 people who lost their lives after a blaze tore through the residential block in west London in 2017.  She shared a link … Read more

Twitter to bring back its ‘blue checkmark’ verification for individual users after three-year hiatus

Twitter to bring back its ‘blue checkmark’ verification for individual users after a three-year hiatus Twitter will start verifying individual users again for the first since 2017 It’s unclear when exactly the verification request process will be launched The company will also clarify guidelines around who can be verified  By James Pero For Dailymail.com Published: … Read more

Banks squeeze savers as one-year fixed-rates hit three-year low

The great savings squeeze continues: Average one-year fixed rate now pays less than 1% as banks axe deals – will short-term accounts head even lower? The average one-year fixed-rate bond pays 0.99% and Isa 0.91% This is a fall of 0.16 and 0.23 percentage points since March respectively Savings rates have been falling this year … Read more

Dramatic moment armed man is arrested at dawn after holding a three-year old girl at knifepoint

Police and negotiators rescued a three-year-old from a man holding her at knifepoint in the early hours this morning.  Negotiations with the 32-year-old man, who was reported to have left a property in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, at around 4.20am with the girl and a kitchen knife, took place for a long time before police eventually managed … Read more