Sales of flats HALVE as housing market is crippled by fire risk fears brought on by Grenfell cladding crisis Flat prices halved amid fears over cladding similar to that on Grenfell Tower In September last year flat transactions also fell by around 5,600, or 48 per cent Earlier was revealed homeowners could face £40,000 bill … Read more
China’s economy has grown 4.9 percent in the third quarter from last year proving the country is back to its pre-pandemic trajectory with consumer spending and industrial production going back to normal levels. China fell short in the third quarter of its forecast for growth between 5.5 percent and 6 percent predicted at the start … Read more
China took advantage of the USS Theodore Roosevelt being crippled by the coronavirus by sending an aircraft carrier and fighter jets close to the disputed territory of Taiwan over the weekend. Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said the Liaoning, China’s first operational aircraft carrier, and five accompanying warships passed first through the Miyako Strait, located between Japan’s islands … Read more
As I watched the Prime Minister order mass house arrest on Monday night, I felt revulsion, anger and grief – as anyone brought up when this was a free and well-governed country would. I also felt terribly alone. You could not have known, from anything broadcast that night or printed the following day, that anyone … Read more
Banks set to hand £20bn in emergency cash to small firms crippled by coronavirus By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 23:09 GMT, 12 March 2020 | Updated: 00:27 GMT, 13 March 2020 Britain’s biggest banks pledged last night to immediately make available £20billion of emergency cash to small and medium-sized enterprises brought to … Read more
A lifeline for small firms crippled by coronavirus: Bank of England and Treasury draw up plan for emergency loans By James Salmon for the Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 4 March 2020 | Updated: 22:06 GMT, 4 March 2020 Plans to provide emergency loans to stop small firms going bust during the coronavirus crisis are … Read more