Best buy easy-access savings rate launched by Coventry Building Society

New easy-access best buy savings deal launched by Coventry Building Society: Will it help trigger competition from rivals? By Lee Boyce for Thisismoney.co.uk Published: 04:58 EDT, 23 July 2021 | Updated: 05:05 EDT, 23 July 2021 Coventry Building Society has launched a best buy easy-access savings account today paying 0.55 per cent. This rate nudges … Read more

Search is launched for teenage girl, 13, missing from her home since the weekend

Search is launched for teenage girl, 13, missing from her home since the weekend Maya, 13, failed to return home at agreed time on Saturday after going to friend’s She vanished alongside a 15-year-old girl who has since been found  Police say Maya is 5ft 4ins tall, slim with long blonde hair and dressed in … Read more

Satellite made out of WOOD is being launched by the European Space Agency this year

Satellite made out of WOOD is being launched by the European Space Agency later this year to see if it can deal with the dangerous conditions of space A four-inch square satellite made of coated plywood will be launched into space  The launch will happen before the end of 2021 and test how it survives … Read more

Best friends who launched a baby gift business just weeks into the first lockdown

Friends who launched a gifting marketplace for children and parents just weeks into the first lockdown are now turning over £41,000 a month thanks to support from fans including Ferne McCann and Stacey Solomon. Laura McBride, 30, and Laura Boswell, 30, from Essex, launched BabyChum, an online marketplace for mother and baby gifts, on 12 … Read more

Petition launched to posthumously award Victoria Cross to black WWII hero denied medal due to race

A campaign has been launched to see a black South African Second World War hero who blew up a Nazi ship with a homemade bomb be awarded a Victoria Cross. British generals nominated Job Maseko for a VC but his South African commanders found the idea of a black man receiving such a prestigious medal … Read more

Humber Bridge footpaths are closed after six suicides in month as petition is launched

Humber Bridge footpaths are closed after six suicides in month as petition is launched calling for extra security measures to stop people taking their own lives Humber Bridge has closed its pedestrian walkways after a spate of suicides Six people have taken their lives in the last month at bridge in East Yorkshire For confidential … Read more

Buy-to-let mortgages flood back with 200 launched in March – but rates are highest since 2019

Landlords are seeing the choice of available mortgage deals increase as the number of products on the market rose by 233 last month alone. Mortgage options increased for the fifth consecutive month in March meaning there are a total of 2,333 buy-to-let products now available, according to the latest Moneyfacts data. This means the number … Read more

Would you spy on granny’s financial transactions? Debit card launched to prevent financial abuse

A new financial services company has launched a debit card that allows families, friends and carers to manage an elderly person’s financial affairs through a virtual or physical debit card. The co-founder of GuardianCard, Nick Thompson, says the business and card were created to prevent the elderly being subjected to theft and other types of … Read more

An official website of Trump launched to stay connected…

Trump launches official new website boasting of his ‘magnificent legacy’ where you can book him and Melania for events – as he remains banned from Twitter and Facebook for ‘inciting violence’ over Capitol siege Donald Trump has launched an official website called www.45office.com ‘The Office of Donald J. Trump is committed to preserving the magnificent … Read more

Flotilla of small boats launched Dunkirk-like rescue in Mozambique

A flotilla of small boats launched a Dunkirk-like rescue of thousands of survivors of a terror attack in Mozambique, it has emerged.  The boats transported people from Palma, which was stormed by hundreds of gunmen last week, to the town of Pemba, 150 miles further down the Mozambican coast.  Brendon Bekker, the Zimbabwean director of … Read more