Home loan for LESS than 1%: Lowest rate in a year, new 95% deals for first-time buyers… Are we in for a mortgage price war? Hinckley & Rugby BS has a two-year discount variable mortgage at 0.99% Meanwhile, a raft of state-backed 95% mortgages went live on Monday Experts say the surge in offers is … Read more
James Corden fought a planning war with he and Coldplay singer Chris Martin’s next-door neighbour over controversial plans to build an ‘iceberg basement’. The celebrities, both based in Los Angeles, owned multimillion-pound properties in the upmarket Belsize Park area of North London – separated by a £600,000 garage conversion home. The pair were renting out their … Read more
No green shoots for Isa savers as the new tax year sees saving rates fall as Marcus fails to spur a tax-free rate war Rates on easy-access Isas have fallen from 0.46% in March to 0.41% March and April is usually ‘Isa season’ when banks compete for savers’ cash Rates are now at an all-time … Read more
Prince Philip’s attachment to the Armed Forces predated even his 73-year marriage to his beloved wife the Queen. The Duke of Edinburgh, who has died at the age of 99, joined the Royal Navy in 1939 – the year the Second World War broke out – when he was still a teenager. By 1942, he … Read more
Bidding war breaks out for Toshiba after Private Equity giant CVC Capital make an audacious £15bn bid By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 7 April 2021 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 7 April 2021 A private equity bidding war has broken out for Japanese firm Toshiba. In a sign of just how … Read more
Millionaire residents of Sandbanks are battling developers over plans to build a ‘soulless’ block of flats on the site of an historic hotel where inventor of the radio Guglielmo Marconi established the world’s first wireless communications. Almost 5,000 letters of objection have been lodged against the £250million development, which if approved by planning officers, would … Read more
Millionaire residents of Sandbanks are battling developers over plans to replace a historic hotel, where inventor of the radio Guglielmo Marconi lived, with a ‘soulless block of flats’. Almost 5,000 letters of objection have been lodged against the £250million development, which if approved by planning officers, would see the Haven Hotel at Poole Harbour, Dorset, bulldozed … Read more
Developers are proposing demolishing a ‘perfectly good’ house which is less than 20 years old to make way for a cycle path. The £300,000 four-bedroom private home could be destroyed to create a cycle route to a new ‘affordable’ housing development. The move has prompted outrage from neighbours who say plans to flatten the house will … Read more
Furious residents are at war with developers over plans to demolish £300k four-bed private home to make way for CYCLE PATH through their suburban cul-de-sac The ‘perfectly good’ £300,000 four-bed house is in a leafy Cardiff cul-de-sac Plans to flatten the home are to build a cycle lane for ‘affordable’ houses nearby Residents in the … Read more
War bassist Morris ‘B.B.’ Dickerson passes away at 71 years of age after years of battling an undisclosed illness By Brian Gallagher For Dailymail.com Published: 23:13 BST, 4 April 2021 | Updated: 23:28 BST, 4 April 2021 The music community is in mourning this weekend, after bassist Morris ‘B.B.’ Dickerson, an original War founding member, … Read more