Chancellor Rishi Sunak being urged to back £5bn plan to save taxpayer footing bill for jobs lost in pandemic By Brendan Carlin, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:51 GMT, 31 October 2020 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 31 October 2020 Chancellor Rishi Sunak is being urged to back a £5billion plan to save the taxpayer footing … Read more
Get planning on your DIY home! Councils are urged to grant permission for build-your-own property to give more people a foot on the housing ladder A review to be announced on Friday will check if current measures meet demand Currently around 15,000 families design or build their own home each year Ministers believe there is … Read more
1. GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi Pasteur: 60million doses The Government revealed on July 29 it had signed a deal with pharmaceutical giants GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Sanofi Pasteur If the vaccine proves successful, the UK could begin to vaccinate priority groups, such as frontline health and social care workers and those at increased risk from coronavirus, as early … Read more
The Government has failed to respond to proposals aimed at offering the families of thousands of disabled children a way to access locked Child Trust Fund savings for a month, despite the Prime Minister last week pledging to do everything he could to help. Child Trust Fund providers and trade bodies handed the Ministry of … Read more
BAME communities urged to volunteer for Covid-19 vaccine trials as figures show they account for less than 5% of participants UK Vaccine Taskforce was launched in April to ‘drive forward, expedite and co-ordinate efforts to research and then produce a coronavirus vaccine’ While over 250,000 Britons have taken part in trials since then, 93% are … Read more
Borrowers urged to move debt to a new balance transfer credit card before best deals disappear By Amelia Murray For The Daily Mail Published: 22:00 BST, 13 October 2020 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 13 October 2020 Borrowers are being urged to move debt to a new balance transfer credit card before the best deals disappear. … Read more
Foodies are urged to avoid wild sea bass and eat SCALLOPS to encourage sustainable fishing and help save the dolphins The Good Fish Guide marks common seafood species based on sustainability Those most at risk of depopulation from fishing methods are listed as red This includes seabass from southern Bay of Biscay and Atlantic Iberian … Read more
Boohoo’s biggest shareholders urged to oust fashion giant’s billionaire chairman after report found sweatshop conditions across its Leicester supply chain By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 22:02 BST, 5 October 2020 | Updated: 22:09 BST, 5 October 2020 Boohoo’s biggest shareholders have been urged to oust the fashion giant’s billionaire chairman after a … Read more
‘Shameless’ insurers urged to pay up over Covid: Seven of UK biggest firms appeal High Court ruling By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:54 BST, 29 September 2020 | Updated: 21:54 BST, 29 September 2020 Insurers have been branded ‘shameless’ for trying to wriggle out of payments to small businesses battered by coronavirus. … Read more
Boris Johnson was urged to make it easier for migrant workers to enter Britain to become builders and even butchers today – as he launched a scheme to provide new skills for Brits left unemployed by coronavirus. The independent Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) recommended that meatsellers, bricklayers and welders be added to the UK’s shortage … Read more