House sales on track for their best year since before financial crisis

House sales on track for their best year since before financial crisis By Emma Dunkley, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 16:50 EDT, 31 July 2021 | Updated: 17:01 EDT, 31 July 2021 House sales are on track for their best year since before the financial crisis.  The number of homes bought and sold is set … Read more

Airport border officials staff are ‘redeployed to the Channel’ to help with migrant crisis

Border officers are being pulled out of airports and relocated to the English Channel to help deal with record numbers in migrants arriving in Britain, it has been reported. Agents from Border Force are having to leave positions at some of the busiest border gates in the UK for Kent, where more staff are needed … Read more

Crisis for Gupta triggers halt to £10m state-funded tech trial 

Crisis at Gupta’s metals empire triggers halt to £10m state-funded tech trial Trials of software to improve efficiency were to take place at two of his plants   However, Gupta’s Liberty Steel last week put seven UK plants up for sale By Alex Lawson For The Mail On Sunday Published: 22:16 BST, 29 May 2021 | … Read more

Most money spent on homes in last 12 months since the financial crisis

The £275bn home buying spree: More money was spent buying property in England and Wales in the past year than in any since the financial crisis The last time spending on housing was so high was in November 2007  March saw highest monthly spend since 1995, beating the record by £8billion Higher house prices have … Read more

Holly Willoughby ‘is in crisis talks with ITV over her future on This Morning’

Holly Willoughby is reportedly in crisis talks with ITV over her future on This Morning. The presenter, 40, is currently embroiled in a legal row with her old management firm YMU, which means they could take a cut of her future earnings. It’s been claimed that Holly has told ITV Daytime that she would rather … Read more

Boris Johnson fails to finalise plans to mend social care crisis

Boris Johnson fails to finalise plans to mend social care crisis after pledging to include proposal in upcoming Queen’s Speech Prime Minister to include social care proposals in the Queen’s Speech next week But Boris Johnson has yet to finalise plans to ‘fix’ the crisis in social care Sources familiar with discussions said they were not aware … Read more

UK steel town Stocksbridge at heart of the Gupta – Greensill crisis

Workers at Britain’s most advanced steelworks are hoping against hope that owner Sanjeev Gupta can keep their site going as he battles to obtain funding after the collapse of lender Greensill Capital. The future of the giant plant in Stocksbridge, in South Yorkshire – which makes specialist steel for use in aviation, aerospace, defence and … Read more

MPs launch inquiry into crisis Sanjeev Gupta’s steel firm Liberty 

MPs launch inquiry into crisis at metals magnate Sanjeev Gupta’s steel firm Liberty By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 23:14 BST, 27 April 2021 | Updated: 23:35 BST, 27 April 2021 Mps will investigate whether the Government scrutinised Liberty Steel’s finances closely enough MPs have launched an inquiry into the crisis at metals … Read more

Sanjeev Gupta faces parliamentary inquiry into Liberty Steel crisis

Metals magnate Sanjeev Gupta faces a parliamentary inquiry into the crisis at Liberty Steel By Francesca Washtell For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 23 April 2021 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 23 April 2021 Metals magnate Sanjeev Gupta faces a parliamentary inquiry into the crisis at Liberty Steel.  MPs on the House of Commons business … Read more