High street banks are ‘stifling’ start-up firms at birth by rejecting applications for business bank accounts because they are too busy processing Bounce Back loans for existing companies. Most banks are not accepting new applications for business accounts or warning of long delays, in a development a business group warned could strangle Britain’s economic recovery. … Read more
Claim up to £10,000 grant to improve your home as new green home scheme opens for applications Applications for grants to make homes more eco-friendly are now open Grants worth up to £10,000 are being offered for a range of ‘primary’ projects The grants can cover two thirds of the total cost of the home … Read more
Beauty And The Geek: Applications open for Aussie nerds and beauties looking for love on national TV By Louise Starkey For Daily Mail Australia Published: 08:24 BST, 22 September 2020 | Updated: 08:24 BST, 22 September 2020 Applications are now open for Australian nerds and ‘beauties’ looking for love on the next season of Beauty … Read more
Small and medium sized enterprises are increasingly being turned away for grants under the Growth Hub scheme as some have been swamped with a frenzy of applications. It comes after the Government introduced a £20million funding initiative in June to help SMEs across England recover from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. The £20million is … Read more
A Black Lives Matter protester has been forced to remove her anti-racism posters after a council threatened her with legal action because they looked like planning applications. Tsara Smith wanted to spread the message about racism around her local rural community, but felt that many people would ignore a traditional poster. Instead, she designed her … Read more
Thousands of furlough applications blocked by taxman due to fears they are fraudulent By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 BST, 21 August 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 21 August 2020 Thousands of furlough applications have been blocked by the taxman due to fears they are fraudulent. More than 30,000 applications for the … Read more
A village in southern Italy that offered tourists free lodgings to boost the local economy has been inundated with 8000 holiday requests from across the world. At the end of June, the remote medieval hamlet of San Giovanni in Galdo, around 90 miles northeast of Naples, decided to offer travellers a free one-week stay in … Read more
Restaurant group Qoot is inundated with 700 applications for three jobs in just 24 hours Qoot runs restaurants in London and the Middle East and is opening new ones It had to withdraw the jobs advert after 48 hours By Harriet Dennys For Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 22:30 BST, 8 August 2020 | Updated: … Read more
UK passport applications will be fast-tracked in five days for Britons going on holiday in the next two weeks – as government battles with 400,000 Covid backlog If you have been waiting more than a month and are due to travel within two weeks, your passport application will be expedited under new measures Plans announced … Read more
From passport applications to holiday refunds, we can help: The Holiday Guru answers traveller queries By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 10:50 BST, 18 July 2020 | Updated: 10:50 BST, 18 July 2020 The Holiday Guru is always on call to answer your questions. This week issues tackled include holiday refunds, passport applications and booking hotels in … Read more