Uber is offering free trips to seven mass-vaccination centres across England to help the most vulnerable receive the Covid-19 jab Uber will cover up to £15 of passengers’ trips to and from the vaccine centres To claim a free ride, passengers must enter a promo code in the Uber app Matt Hancock has described the … Read more
Fidelity launches its UK wealth management unit offering ‘restricted’ advice on investing and retirement Initial advice meeting is free but charges for extra advice will apply Service could be expanded to include tax matters and estate planning in future By Jane Denton For Thisismoney Published: 12:46 GMT, 13 January 2021 | Updated: 12:46 GMT, 13 … Read more
A London property investment firm was forced to apologise after its ‘appalling’ bid to skip the coronavirus vaccine queue by offering doctors £5,000 for each jab given to its staff. Doctors across Britain are said to have been offered up to £100,000 to vaccinate the workforce of The Hacking Trust – a luxury London property firm – amid … Read more
Police hunt Covid conman who jabbed 92-year-old woman in arm with ‘DART’ then charged her £160 after going door-to-door offering fake vaccines Woman, 92, was jabbed in the arm with a ‘dart-like implement’ in South London Man ‘from NHS’ knocked on her door and said he was administering vaccines Conman asked for £160, which victim … Read more
Supermarket websites have been strained after Boris Johnson announced the third national lockdown on Monday with shoppers racing to book delivery slots. Both the Sainsbury’s and Tesco apps reported problems due to surging demand, while some shoppers took to Twitter to reveal they were 4,864 in the queue for an Ocado shop. Shoppers at some … Read more
Wealthy Britons ‘are offering private doctors up to £2,000 to jump Covid vaccine queue and get the jabs early’ Dr Roshan Ravindran has told clients they will have to wait their turn for vaccine He owns private clinic in Wilmslow, Cheshire, and has been offered money Vaccine can only be obtained through NHS. More than 355m … Read more
GP surgeries in England will begin offering coronavirus vaccinations from today. Practices in more than 100 locations will have the approved Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine delivered to them today, with some offering the jab within hours. The vaccination clinics will operate from doctors’ surgeries or community hubs in villages, towns and cities. NHS England and NHS Improvement … Read more
Recording Academy Interim Chief Harvey Mason, Jr. has offered an apology to Tiffany Haddish after she revealed she was offered a chance to host a pre-Grammys event for no pay. The music insider called the decision ‘a lapse in judgment, it was in poor taste, and it was disrespectful to the creative community,’ in a … Read more
Do YOU have a friend who deserves an amazing hotel experience? The Savoy is granting Christmas wishes to reward kindness including lessons from staff, from packing suitcases to cooking The Savoy is asking the public to nominate a friend or family member for a unique Savoy experience Potential wishes could include enjoying classic Savoy experiences … Read more
An art dealer likely did forge an email from late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen offering $10million for a Picasso painting, a judge found. Siblings Sean, Lauren and David Carpenter claim Astrid-Caroline Cole falsified an email exchange with billionaire businessman Paul Allen, in which he allegedly offered to buy the Spanish artist’s work Le Sauvetage for $10million … Read more