Self-employed workers missing out on support under Government’s coronavirus aid schemes

Hundreds of thousands of self-employed workers missing out on support under Government’s coronavirus aid scheme By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 BST, 17 April 2020 | Updated: 22:19 BST, 17 April 2020 Hundreds of thousands of self-employed workers are missing out on support under the Government’s coronavirus aid schemes.  The Self-Employment Income … Read more

Britain spent £623million on foreign aid last year

Britain spent £623million on foreign aid last year… to fund projects including wiping out giant mice on an island in the Atlantic and rebuilding a mosque in Egypt Britain’s foreign aid budget soared to a record £15.2billion in 2019 – up 4.3%  UK paid 1 out of every £8 in foreign aid given by 29 … Read more

TikTok pledges $375 MILLION in coronavirus aid with a portion going to its online community

TikTok pledges $375 MILLION in coronavirus relief aid with a portion of it going to its online community of artists who need money for essentials TikTok is helping those impacted by the coronavirus by donating $375 million The funds will be used to help medical staff purchases supplies they need They are also giving money … Read more

Coronation Street stars join forces with Women’s Aid to offer help for sufferers of domestic abuse

Coronation Street stars join forces with Women’s Aid to offer help for sufferers of domestic abuse during coronavirus lockdown By Laura Fox For Mailonline Published: 10:18 BST, 11 April 2020 | Updated: 10:23 BST, 11 April 2020 The cast of Coronation Street have joined forces with Women’s Aid to offer help and advice for those … Read more

George and Amal Clooney donate more than $1 million to coronavirus aid efforts

George and Amal Clooney donate more than $1m to coronavirus aid efforts… helping out of work Hollywood workers and Britain’s NHS The actor and the human rights barrister will give $250K each to the Motion Picture & Television Fund, The SAG-AFTRA Fund and the Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles  Clooney is a board member for … Read more

A junior doctor is assembling £10 coronavirus testing kits on his kitchen table to aid NHS staff

A cure for the test kit fiasco? A junior doctor is assembling £10 coronavirus testing kits on his kitchen table to help medics return to the NHS front line  Dr Mike Gough has come up with the idea to help health staff in self-isolation  He and his brother Chris have crowfunded to buy 1,000 testing … Read more

Trump brags the U.S. is sending medical aid to ITALY despite hospitals warning of shortages at home

President Trump boasted that the U.S. would send $100 million in medical supplies to Italy despite American hospitals fretting about shortages of home due to the coronavirus epidemic.   ‘We’re going to be sending approximately $100 million worth of things, of surgical and medical and hospital things to Italy,’ Trump told reporters Monday in the White … Read more

Make bosses pay for aid, says Nat Rothschild: City scion demands fat cats give up perks for bailouts

Bosses who have squeezed cash out of their companies and now want taxpayer help should be forced to give up a chunk of their pay, a senior member of the Rothschild banking dynasty has said. In a damning intervention, Nat Rothschild told The Mail on Sunday there ‘has to be a price’ for being caught … Read more

Rishi Sunak has made it abundantly clear about coronavirus aid packages… he wants it all back 

SIMON WALTERS: Mr Moneybags Rishi Sunak has made it abundantly clear about coronavirus aid packages… he wants it all back By Simon Walters for the Daily Mail Published: 22:16 GMT, 26 March 2020 | Updated: 02:45 GMT, 27 March 2020 During his six weeks as Chancellor, the sight of Rishi Sunak standing at the Downing … Read more

Aid packages’ of food and medicine will be delivered to 1.5 million vulnerable Britons

The 1.5million ‘extremely vulnerable’ people across the country will offered food, medicine and other deliveries as the nation tries to cope with the coronavirus outbreak. At the daily press conference Boris Johnson confirmed the NHS is to begin sending out letters to the people most at risk of the disease urging them to remain at … Read more