HSBC and First Direct make more huge cuts to regular saver accounts which now pay just 1% – a drop of four fifths compared to last summer HSBC and First Direct customers will see rates fall from 2.75% to 1% The accounts let current accounts save up to £300 a month at a top rate … Read more
Angelina Jolie is set to direct a biopic about British war photographer Sir Don McCullin titled Unreasonable Behaviour By Roxy Simons For Mailonline Published: 15:39 GMT, 19 November 2020 | Updated: 15:39 GMT, 19 November 2020 Angelina Jolie is set to direct a film about British war photographer Sir Don McCullin, it was revealed on … Read more
Mike Ashley revives long-running attempts to buy department store chain Debenhams By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 BST, 18 October 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 18 October 2020 Mike Ashley has revived his long-running attempts to buy department store chain Debenhams. The Sports Direct tycoon saw his 30 per cent stake wiped … Read more
No other Caribbean country has endured such a tumultuous modern history as Grenada. The Cuban and Russian-backed revolution of the early Eighties ended with the American invasion (referred to in these parts, quaintly, as the ‘intervention’) then, just as the country was finding its feet, along came Hurricane Ivan in 2004 to flatten the place … Read more
No Time To Die’s Cary Joji Fukunaga signs on to direct Band Of Brothers’ sequel Masters Of The Air as it’s reveals shooting ‘begins in March’ By Roxy Simons For Mailonline Published: 15:42 BST, 10 October 2020 | Updated: 15:42 BST, 10 October 2020 No Time To Die director Cary Joji Fukunaga has signed on … Read more
The giant tortoise was agonisingly slow and stately as it inched with plodding precision across the road. Two cars and a bicycle patiently came to a halt as this ancient shelled creature — one is pictured below — caused the rarest of occurrences on the island of Praslin: a traffic jam in the Seychelles, lasting … Read more
Astronomers from the Max Planck institutes has confirmed the existence of an exoplanet in another star system some 63 light years away from Earth – and have shared a picture to prove it. Called b Pictoris c, the planet was captured using the radial velocity method that detects exoplanets, along with the Very Large Telescopes … Read more
I’ve been speaking to a broker about buying income protection and a new life insurance policy. They’ve been really helpful and recommended a couple of policies that suit my needs. The thing is, I double checked with the insurer directly, and they’ve said I can have the same policies exactly but with a lower premium. … Read more
Slack has become increasingly essential to millions of workers who need to stay in contact while working from home. The communications platform is launching new features that reflect the new normal, including Instagram-like Stories that could replace tedious video meetings. Also on the agenda: A push-to-talk audio option that would allow coworkers to chat instantaneously … Read more
Facebook has officially slid Messenger into Instagram’s Direct Messages. The social media giant announced an update that merges the two messaging services into one unified system. The roll out includes more than 10 new features including stickers, Watch Together and a vanish mode that allows users to set messages to automatically disappear after they are … Read more