The total value of private property in the UK topped £6trillion for the first time on record last year, fresh data reveals. Mortgage-holders also made an ‘unprecedented’ £5.1billion worth of overpayments in the final quarter of 2020, but regular repayments remain below pre-pandemic levels, the Equity Release Council said. In the final quarter of last … Read more
Hundreds of thousands of doses of AstraZeneca vaccine have been secretly flown to Australia from Britain after the EU blocked exports to the country. A total of 717,000 doses have been sent, but the source of the shipments was kept quiet to avoid any controversy in the United Kingdom, the Sydney Morning Herald reported on … Read more
Britain is set to pass the threshold for herd immunity on Monday, scientists say. Modelling by University College London (UCL) suggests that 73.4 per cent of the population will have protection against Covid by April 12. The figures outdo pessimistic estimations by Imperial College this week – which suggested that just 34 per cent would have … Read more
Food fragments discovered in an ancient toilet in Oxford helped scientists confirm that Britain’s medieval Jewish community avoided pork and ‘kept kosher’. While this has long been thought to be the case, this is the earliest concrete evidence so far of the diet in the UK. Scientists from the University of Bristol and Oxford Archaeology, … Read more
Frost-bitten Britain: Polar winds see UK suffer third sub-zero morning in row with -6C lows and snow risk (and you’ll STILL need to wrap up warm for return of al fresco dining on April 12) Yellow snow warning is in place across northern Scotland until 10am, with warnings of transport disruption It came after temperatures … Read more
Civil rights leader the Reverend Jesse Jackson has today weighed into the UK’s debate on race, by saying that Britain is the ‘mother of racism’. The influential American, 79, said Britain must face up to its role in slavery, as he flatly rejected the findings of the recent report into race and racism in the … Read more
Britons woke up to temperatures as low as -8C (18F) this morning on another bitterly cold day as forecasters warned ‘nobody is entirely immune’ to sleet or snow today. As the UK returns to work after the Easter break, the day started with the mercury at just -2C (29F) in the South of England and … Read more
Homeowners will have to put up with central heating that is cooler by 10 degrees C if Britain is to hit climate change targets Government has set a target of 600,000 heat pumps installed each year by 2028 Pumps are more efficient than using fossil fuel technologies such as gas boilers However, they operate 10 … Read more
Easter Sunday has brought sunny skies for many in the South of England as hundreds pile onto the nation’s beaches with family on the first weekend since lockdown restrictions were eased to allow groups of six to meet outdoors. A top temperature of 64.4F (18C) is forecast for the South of England this afternoon, whilst … Read more
Adil Ray will be co-hosting Good Morning Britain next week with Kate Garraway amid claims bosses plan to ‘rotate presenters’ after Piers Morgan’s exit. Piers, 56, famously left ITV’s GMB after saying he ‘didn’t believe a word’ of Meghan Markle’s account of experiencing racism and other charges against her husband Prince Harry’s Royal Family during her bombshell … Read more