More than 11million households in Britain risk overpaying £3.5billion on their energy bills this year as they stick to expensive standard variable tariffs from the Big Six, new research claims. The energy giants are all set to price their SVR within an average of £1.33 of the new price cap level, which is due to … Read more
Chancellor’s £32bn hit for big business as tax cut is cancelled to free up cash for the coronavirus fightback By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 22:08 GMT, 11 March 2020 | Updated: 22:08 GMT, 11 March 2020 There was a sting in the tail for British businesses as large corporations were told to … Read more
2020 OLYMPIC GAMES In doubt The scale of the outbreak in Japan saw senior International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound describe the disease as ‘the new war’ threatening Tokyo 2020 and he warned the Games may have to be cancelled if the virus was still around by May. Olympic organisers told athletes to train as normal … Read more
Sunak ‘can’t afford big giveaways’ if he sticks to plan to balance budget within three years By Neil Craven, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 23:46 GMT, 7 March 2020 | Updated: 09:51 GMT, 8 March 2020 Rishni Sunak could have little room for major tax giveaways in this week’s Budget, according to a group of influential economic … Read more
It’s Paw-ddington! Lazy Chow Chow who looks like a cuddly teddy bear wins legions of fans on Instagram with his big snout and fluffy cheeks Chowder, a six-year-old Chow Chow, is a viral sensation from the Philippines The pooch wins people over with big cheeks that make him look like a teddy bear His owner … Read more
‘My rotisserie chicken is green!’ Shoppers at Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda and Morrisons are left ‘feeling sick’ after discovering discoloured meat inside fresh poultry Consumers shared images on social media of the green tinted cooked chicken The discolouration is thought to be caused by a disease where the muscles of inactive chicken are starved of oxygen when … Read more
Picture a medium at work and chances are you’ll imagine a woman hunched over a crystal ball at the end of a pier. But today’s ‘paranormal professionals’ have given the industry a modern makeover to satisfy booming demand, says Claudia Connell Additional copy: Eimear O’Hagan, Jill Foster The social media medium with nearly a million fans He recently … Read more
Big business sounds alarm over virus: Diageo takes a £200m hit to profits, Rio warns on China demand as Chevron UK HQ is evacuated By James Salmon for the Daily Mail Published: 21:54 GMT, 26 February 2020 | Updated: 21:57 GMT, 26 February 2020 The threat posed by coronavirus to businesses of all types was … Read more
He may be 47 years dead but Picasso is still impossible to keep up with: The Picasso And Paper exhibition at the RA is big and brilliant By Alastair Smart Published: 22:02 GMT, 1 February 2020 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 1 February 2020 Picasso And Paper Royal Academy of Arts, London … Read more
Whisper this softly, but we might just be falling out of love with film awards. The television ratings for last weekend’s Bafta awards were the lowest for 12 years, which, given that the coverage was recorded and you could have discovered the winners online some time before they were ‘revealed’ on TV, is perhaps not … Read more