Tide may be turning for savers as rates start to edge up

Tide may be turning for savers as some providers start to nudge up rates ‘Best-buy’ two-year fixed-rate bond from Zopa pays 1% interest The best rate on a one-year bond is now 0.86%  That’s higher than 0.7% at the start of the month and 0.59% in April By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: … Read more

What’s behind the rising tide of financial scams? This is Money podcast

We publish our podcast every Friday to the player on This is Money, above, and on Apple Podcasts (iTunes) and on the podcast platforms Audioboom and Acast, both of which allow you to listen on desktop, mobile, or download an app. We also now publish to Spotify. To download the Apple Podcasts app if you … Read more

Ancient trees from 6,000-year-old forest are uncovered by lowest tide of the year on Cornish beach

Trunks, stumps and roots of ancient trees from 6,000-year-old forest are uncovered by lowest tide of the year on Cornish beach Submerged forest in Mount’s Bay, Cornwall, typically hidden beneath sand and shingle of the sweeping bay Bay overlooks the tidal island of St Michael’s Mount, which is connected to Marazion by man-made causeway  Petrified … Read more

Ever Given is FREED from Suez Canal in last-ditch attempt using supermoon king tide

The massive container ship blocking the busy Suez Canal has been freed from the bank of the vital trade route in a last-ditch bid to take advantage of the king tide brought on by the supermoon. The Ever Given was freed by salvage teams early on Monday, one week after after the 1,300-foot-long ship ran … Read more

Suez Canal chiefs launch last-ditch bid to use supermoon high tide to free the Ever Given

Salvage teams have intensified excavation and dredging efforts around a massive container ship blocking the busy Suez Canal after canal chiefs launched a last-ditch bid to take advantage of the king tide brought on by the supermoon to help free the vessel. Officials said operations were under way to make use the high tides created by … Read more

GEOFFREY LEAN: They pledged to turn the tide on plastic. Tories can’t let this be an empty promise 

Has the Government lost its bottle over the scourge of plastic pollution? Scandalously — and inexplicably — it seems so. Yesterday, barely 24 hours after a minister boasted that Britain was a ‘global leader when it comes to tackling plastic’, the Mail revealed that an official ‘bottle return’ scheme has been put back until at … Read more

Got that sinking feeling! Rescue mission fails as tide swamps digger that got stuck on a beach

Got that sinking feeling! Rescue mission fails as tide swamps digger that got stuck on a beach… while trying to move a stranded truck The digger was sent to the front to save a truck from the incoming tide at Weston-super-Mare, Somerset  While the truck was eventually moved, the digger got stuck instead and remained … Read more

Amazon backs Tide Charity to boost Britain’s small businesses

Amazon backs Tide Charity providing £1,000 grants to Britain’s Covid-hit small businesses By Miles Dilworth For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 27 November 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 27 November 2020 Amazon has thrown its weight behind a charity supported by the Daily Mail to boost Britain’s struggling small businesses. The US tech giant … Read more

Huge sperm whale washes up dead on Norfolk mudbank before tide carries its body further out to sea 

Huge sperm whale washes up dead on Norfolk mudbank before tide carries its body further out to sea The dead sperm whale was spotted beached in The Wash on the Norfolk coast It was lying a mile out from Snettisham Beach but has now been carried by tide Locals Jacky and Andy McKee reported it to UK … Read more

Small business charity The Tide raises £160,000 in a week

Small business charity The Tide hailed by minister after raising £160,000 in a week with our help By Miles Dilworth For The Daily Mail Published: 22:00 GMT, 17 November 2020 | Updated: 23:20 GMT, 17 November 2020 A small business charity supported by the Mail has been hailed by a Government minister after it raised … Read more