Savers can beat state pension pot age hike thanks to loophole 

Savers can beat plans to hike the age they can get their hands on their state pension pot thanks to loophole By Ben Wilkinson for the Daily Mail Published: 17:01 EDT, 20 July 2021 | Updated: 17:01 EDT, 20 July 2021 A loophole means savers can still beat government plans to hike the age they … Read more

Should you consider a Lifetime Isa as a supplementary pension pot?

33-year-old Craig Hughes, from North Lincolnshire, mounted a defence of the Lifetime Isa as a supplementary pension If Isa season is all about working out ways to keep as much of your money away from the taxman as possible, Rishi Sunak’s latest Budget made that a little trickier. Dubbed a stealth raid on household finances, … Read more

Junior Isas: How to save for a child to give them a bumper pot of cash

A combination of the new £9,000 tax-free allowance and lockdowns leaving some parents with more money has led to a spike in Junior Isa savings over the last year. DIY investment platform Hargreaves Lansdown, which runs around a third of all investment Jisas, said more had been opened and more money paid in in the … Read more

Regularly using pot has harmful effects at ANY age a person starts

Regularly using marijuana has long-term harmful effects regardless of how old the person was when they began smoking, a new study suggests Researchers looked at people who began smoking or vaping cannabis routinely in high school or in their early 20s in comparison with non-users. They found that, by age 35, pot users who began … Read more

Dr Pot pots £66m: Cannabis medicine pioneer sells GW Pharmaceuticals for £5.3billion

A British scientist dubbed ‘Dr Pot’ and his business partner were last night celebrating a £94million windfall after selling their cannabis firm for £5.3billion. Dr Geoffrey Guy founded Cambridge-based GW Pharmaceuticals in 1998, but is selling the company to Irish rival Jazz Pharmaceuticals. His holding will net him a payout of £65.9million, with the company’s … Read more

Cabinet tussle over £10bn pot for cladding victims

Pressure is mounting on the Chancellor to sanction a £10billion rescue package for families hit by the building safety scandal. Rishi Sunak is being pressed by Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick to come up with a multi-billion-pound deal to repair homes with dangerous cladding.  Ministers are considering imposing a levy on construction firms to make them atone … Read more

Grimes poses on a giant PLANT POT and plays the accordion as she promotes her new colouring book

New mother Grimes took to Instagram to share a series of offbeat snapshots on Thursday, as she promoted the release of her new colouring book. The 32-year-old musician – who welcomed son X Æ A-Xii six months ago with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, 49 – released her first art book Grimes: Miss Information, a Coloring Book earlier this … Read more

Will Smith recreates classic Fresh Prince kitchen disaster scene (complete with burning pot!)

He delighted fans this week by reuniting the cast of his hit sitcom The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air for a TV special and burying the hatchet with former co-star Janet Hubert. And Will Smith kept the nostalgia coming on Friday night, when he created a classic scene where his namesake character burned down the … Read more

Pensioner, 91, survives fall at home by eating SOIL from a pot plant for TWO days

A 91-year-old pensioner survived a fall at her home by eating soil from a pot plant while lying stricken on her bedroom floor.   Doctors told Rosemary Frank she was only six more hours from death before she was saved by a volunteer driver who found her at her home in Kempsey, Worcs., on October 13, … Read more

Rishi Sunak reveals fresh £22bn bailout pot to head off a jobs bloodbath

Rishi’s new bailout  Firms in Tier 2 lockdown eligible for £2,100-a-month grants, potentially benefiting 150,000 businesses. If there is full take-up it could cost £1.2billion. Job Support Scheme changed so employers pay just 5 per cent of unworked hours – down from a third – and the minimum threshold for hours worked will be one day … Read more