Mortgage meltdown: Bank chaos as families rush to freeze payments as homeowners tell of 10-hour wait on helplines Chancellor Rishi Sunak offered homeowners a three-month mortgage break Lenders now asking borrowers to submit applications online to free up phones Borrowers who do take a break will still be charged interest on their mortgage By Samantha … Read more
Families with just one member who has even mild coronavirus symptoms must self-isolate for two weeks, the Government has announced. Boris Johnson said ‘if you or anyone in your household’ had one of the two symptoms – a high temperature or continuous cough – ‘you should stay at home for 14 days’. ‘That means that if … Read more
TSB hits back over staff bonus fears as bank changes strategy to help struggling families By Helen Cahill, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 23:46 GMT, 14 March 2020 | Updated: 23:46 GMT, 14 March 2020 TSB has played down fears that an overhaul of its bonus scheme will put pressure on staff to sell loans … Read more
Families could be told to self-isolate together if just ONE of them has coronavirus but elderly are told to ‘take care’ with their grandchildren as experts warn they are most likely to catch coronavirus from loved ones Families could soon be told to self-isolate together if just one of them falls ill Prof John Edmunds … Read more
Whole families will need to go into quarantine in the coming weeks if one of them has a temperature or a cough, Boris Johnson said yesterday. Although the Prime Minister stressed this was not yet the official advice, he warned households that it would be ‘coming down the track’. But Mr Johnson was clear that … Read more
Standing at the top of a red run so steep we couldn’t see over the edge, I looked at my eight-year-old son and said ‘What do you reckon?’ My husband and older son had already disappeared over the edge in a spray of powder and now it was just the two of us under a … Read more
All-inclusive holidays are commonly perceived to be bargains – but research has revealed that families on them may end up spending up to 85 per cent more than those on bed and breakfast deals in the same resort, new research has found. This is because over four in five pay out for extras averaging over … Read more
The families of seniors locked down at a Washington state nursing long-term care facility are worried that time is running out before their relatives fall ill. Visitors were barred from Life Care Center in Kirkland, a suburb of Seattle, after a series of 14 coronavirus infections sprang up at the home. Children and spouses of … Read more
M’aidez! M’aidez!’ Deranged with panic, I flapped my arms and hollered for help. No ski trip for my family is complete without the international phrase for emergency being used at least once. Only this time I wasn’t shouting it from a slope-side collision but from the hard shoulder of a French motorway after coming to … Read more
Britons are panic buying nappies, toilet roll, soup, tinned fruit, pet food, medicine, bottled water, wine and even setting up ‘isolation’ rooms at home in case coronavirus shuts down their communities, it was revealed today. Families are stockpiling reserves to ensure their homes are ‘fit for a pandemic’ with some purchasing new chest freezers to fill … Read more