Nationwide lets first-time buyers borrow 20% MORE – if they lock mortgage rate for five years 

Nationwide lets first-time buyers borrow 20% MORE as it raises mortgage limit to 5.5 times salary – but they must lock in for five years  UK’s second-largest mortgage lender changes loan-to-income calculation – but only for first-time buyers fixing their rate for between five and 10 years They will be able to borrow 5.5 times … Read more

Moment passersby borrow scaffolding to rescue cat dangling out of a half-open apartment window

Moment passersby borrow scaffolding to rescue cat dangling out of a half-open apartment window Scared pet struggled to get back inside his second-floor home in Krasnodar  Alarmed passersby called emergency services but said they declined to help   Two men named Denis and Sergei borrowed scaffolding to help the animal   By Will Stewart for MailOnline Published: … Read more

Queen’s planes will be axed in move that could force Royals to borrow Boris Johnson’s jet 

The Queen’s official fleet of planes is to be sold off as part of defence cuts in a move that will force her to borrow Boris Johnson’s Union Flag jet. Airliners used by the Royal Family since the 1980s will be withdrawn from service next year to save money – leaving the sovereign without a … Read more

Christina Anstead thanks ex Tarek El Moussa for letting her ‘borrow’ his mom Dominique for ski trip

Christina Anstead thanks her ex-husband Tarek El Moussa for letting her ‘borrow’ his mother Dominique for a ski trip to Deer Valley with the kids By Dan Heching For Dailymail.com Published: 00:40 GMT, 16 February 2021 | Updated: 00:40 GMT, 16 February 2021 She’s a proud member of a ‘modern family’ bringing her ex-mother-in-law along … Read more

ALEX BRUMMER: Covid-19 spending and lost tax revenues mean UK will have to borrow more than £400bn

Rishi Sunak is well used to the routine now. For the 13th time since March 17, he’s having to dig deep into the Exchequer in his mammoth effort to keep as many businesses and jobs intact as he can, and to try to limit the long-term damage to Britain’s economic prospects. By the standards of … Read more

Quick-thinking police officers borrow a powerboat to rescue a man struggling in the Thames at 2am

Police bodycam footage captures quick-thinking officers borrowing a powerboat to rescue a man spotted struggling in the Thames at 2am Kingston police rescued a man who was struggling to stay afloat in the river  The quick-thinking officers used a powerboat to reach the drowning man Remarkable bodycam footage from August 6 was shared by police … Read more

Cheaper ways to borrow as banks bring back expensive overdraft rates

Borrowers were granted a reprieve from overdraft rates of nearly 40 per cent at the start of April as banks were ordered by the regulator to keep costs low as the coronavirus struck. But last week the Financial Conduct Authority reopened the door to sky high overdraft charges when it said it was not extending … Read more

Did Agatha Christie ‘borrow’ the plot for her acclaimed novel?

Did Agatha Christie ‘borrow’ the plot for one of her acclaimed novels? Translator discovers similar plot twist to The Murder of Roger Ackroyd published in Norway SEVENTEEN years earlier SPOILERS: A translator has discovered an early English translation of a novel Stein Riverton’s Jernvognen was published in 1909 and in English in 1923 Previously thought of … Read more

Government set to borrow £100bn more than expected over next five years

Economy ground to halt ahead of election: Government set to borrow £100bn more than expected over next five years By Hugo Duncan for the Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 16 December 2019 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 16 December 2019 Political uncertainty ahead of the General Election has left the economy facing its worst month for … Read more

ALEX BRUMMER: Can we really trust bosses to borrow billions to put into their workers’ pockets?

The scale of the Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Covid-19 rescue package for Britain’s hard-pressed businesses — big corporations and smaller enterprises — is startling in both its scale and ambition. At its core is a promise to help the bigger corporations survive the crisis with £330 bn of easy credit from the Bank of England that … Read more