A family who fought for four months to get a £1,400 refund from Ryanair over a Majorcan holiday cancelled by Covid-19 – only for the cheque to bounce. Paul Irvine, 41, was due to jet off to the tourist hotspot last month with his parents, wife Lisa and their 12-year-old son Bradley. But the IT … Read more
Mother of six who is the Queen of M&A: Karen Cook to pocket another big cheque after leading sale of RSA By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 20 November 2020 | Updated: 22:04 GMT, 20 November 2020 City superwoman Karen Cook will pocket another bulging pay cheque after leading the sale … Read more
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 ‘The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all,’ said the great German composer Richard Strauss, ‘but it is the most difficult to play.’ Some, such as Morgan Freeman, definitely play it better than others like… Janet Street-Porter. Kate Winslet has expressed her horror at working with directors Roman Polanski, a … Read more
Branson’s £300m Virgin blank cheque: British tycoon reveals plans to expand his empire buying new businesses By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:54 BST, 17 September 2020 | Updated: 21:54 BST, 17 September 2020 Sir Richard Branson has proposed a so-called special purpose acquisition vehicle – or ‘spac’ Sir Richard Branson has revealed … Read more
Tony Hetherington is Financial Mail on Sunday’s ace investigator, fighting readers corners, revealing the truth that lies behind closed doors and winning victories for those who have been left out-of-pocket. Find out how to contact him below. B.S. writes: Great Rail Journeys, which is based in York, cancelled our £10,000 railway tour of the southern … Read more
I went into my Halifax branch and asked for a cheque for €4,000 to be raised and paid to a third party. The cheque was never received and the money – £3,454 – has not been credited back to my account. The branch manager cannot explain where the money is. He said it must be … Read more
NHS student nurse, 35, tells how Sir Rod Stewart sent her £5,000 cheque to help her through ‘rough times’ after she beat coronavirus Nurse Natasha Jenkins spent 22 days on a ventilator fighting coronavirus She contracted the deadly virus while working on the NHS frontline So rapid was her decline that she cannot recall how … Read more
John Cleese has mocked the paltry royalty payments he receives for narrating Winnie The Pooh, revealing that one of his residual cheques totalled just 17 pence. The comedy legend took to Twitter on Saturday to blast the low payments he banks for his voice work on the 2011 Disney movie – which had a budget … Read more