British Gas promises to do more to help vulnerable customers trying to book Homecare appointments By Fiona Parker For The Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 20 April 2021 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 20 April 2021 British Gas has pledged to do more to help vulnerable customers after Money Mail sent it a dossier of nearly … Read more
The late Robert Conquest, historian and poet, declared: ‘The simplest way to explain the behaviour of any bureaucratic organisation is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies.’ No better example has ever been provided of the accuracy of this witticism than by the European Commission over the Covid-19 vaccine rollout. … Read more
Almost three-quarters of EU countries are experiencing spiralling Covid infection rates, forcing vast swathes of the continent back into lockdown. As a third wave sweeps across Europe, Britons were yesterday warned that foreign summer holidays are ‘extremely unlikely’. In France alone, 21 million people awoke yesterday to a fresh draconian lockdown. Millions more in Italy, Germany, … Read more
Taxpayer will foot the bill for Post Office IT fiasco as payouts over the scandal are predicted to run into ‘hundreds of millions’ of pounds Between 1999 and 2015, hundreds of innocent postmasters were prosecuted Accused of taking money that was due to Horizon computer terminal glitches In December a number of postmasters finally had … Read more
Britons planning foreign holidays abroad are pushing them back again until after the May half-term amid mounting concerns over the coronavirus vaccine rollout and rising cases in the European Union. People who have already booked trips in May are now being offered the chance by tour operations and airlines to move them to later in … Read more
‘I hear you know about stocks?’: UK-based Robin Hood Society gains 33,000 Twitter followers after users confuse it with US trading app used by armchair investors behind Wall Street chaos UK’s World Wide Robin Hood Society promotes the legendary heroic outlaw It now has 37,000 Twitter followers after starting yesterday with less than 400 Traders … Read more
Hilaria Baldwin has claimed that she hails from Spain, but a genealogist has weighed in to confirm that Boston-born Hillary Thomas-Hayward is anything but Spanish. Genealogist Dr. Adina Newman says there is ‘no Spain in sight’ after tracing Hilaria’s lineage back to England, Ireland, Germany, Quebec, modern day Slovakia and finally settling in New England. … Read more
Shame sniggering Sara Pascoe can’t see her Cuban trip’s a fiasco: CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews weekend TV By Christopher Stevens for the Daily Mail Published: 01:56 GMT, 28 December 2020 | Updated: 01:56 GMT, 28 December 2020 Last Woman On Earth Rating: Back To The 80s Rating: Sara Pascoe on the pull is an experience to … Read more
Advertising agency WPP has admitted to understating its losses by hundreds of millions of pounds after an embarrassing accounting debacle. In a highly unusual error, it said its statutory losses were mis-stated by £301million for the first six months of this year. It means the record half-year loss of £2.6billion that the world’s largest advertising … Read more
A devastating report today lifts the lid on the cronyism and ineptitude that has characterised the Government’s £18billion rush to source PPE and other equipment during the coronavirus crisis. Michael Gove and Dominic Cummings were both drawn into the debacle after the spending watchdog said officials failed to consider potential conflicts of interests involving companies … Read more