As many as 234,000 buyers who’ve had a property sale agreed could save thousands of pounds if the Chancellor’s rumoured three-month stamp duty holiday extension goes ahead. The total amount saved in stamp duty charges if the extension is given the green light in the Budget next week could top £984million, according to online property … Read more
We have just agreed the sale of our home and the purchase of a new one costing £600,000, and there is no chain beyond these two transactions. We had been working on the basis that there was no way we would benefit from the stamp duty holiday, but I have now read that it could … Read more
Denise Van Outen — presenter, actor, star of the West End, general all-round showgirl — signed up for Dancing On Ice to prove a point: that age (and lack of any skating ability whatsoever) should not be a barrier to releasing her inner Jayne Torvill. She can (sort of) laugh about it today. ‘Isn’t it … Read more
My partner has lost her widow’s benefit because we live together – is this right, or fair? Steve Webb replies By Steve Webb for This Is Money Published: 07:43 GMT, 18 January 2021 | Updated: 07:48 GMT, 18 January 2021 The Department for Work and Pensions has recently claimed my partner is no longer entitled … Read more
Boris Johnson is accused of trying to delay May’s local elections until the summer so he can benefit from a ‘vaccine bump’ after jab is rolled out By David Wilcock, Whitehall Correspondent For Mailonline Published: 10:04 GMT, 13 January 2021 | Updated: 10:27 GMT, 13 January 2021 Boris Johnson has been accused of seeking to … Read more
The Waltons cast members are slated to participate in an on-air reunion that will include a live Q&A session along with a musical performance By Sam Joseph Semon For Dailymail.com Published: 18:58 GMT, 4 January 2021 | Updated: 19:01 GMT, 4 January 2021 Various members of the cast of The Waltons have been tapped to … Read more
Thousands of Britons at risk of blindness will benefit from a new drug that slows vision loss and can even improve sight. The medicine, brolucizumab, has now been approved by NHS chiefs for patients with wet age-related macular deterioration – a painless yet incurable eye disease that’s the leading cause of blindness in over-55s. Previously, sufferers … Read more
TEMPLE BAR INVESTMENT TRUST: The fund poised to benefit from the UK’s recovery By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:20 GMT, 2 January 2021 | Updated: 22:20 GMT, 2 January 2021 Investment trust Temple Bar has had a challenging past 12 months. There has been a change of manager, a near calamitous … Read more
As a rule, public servants rarely apologise, even when faced with world-class mistakes. Montagu Norman never said sorry for putting Britain back on the gold standard in 1925 and there was no mea culpa from the late Eddie George over the Barings implosion in 1995. In that context, the apology by Andrew Bailey to bondholders … Read more
Meek Mill and Michael Rubin create $2million scholarship fund to benefit underprivileged kids in Philadelphia The 33-year-old rapper and 48-year-old businessman worked together to organize the fund which will benefit nearly 1,000 in their hometown The two are springing into action right away amid the COVID-19 pandemic as the money will reportedly go toward the … Read more