John Lewis eyes value range to lift its fortunes

John Lewis to reopen with ‘affordable’ range designed to attract younger customers to the department store By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 9 April 2021 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 9 April 2021 John Lewis will reopen stores with an ‘affordable’ range designed to attract younger customers to the department store.  The … Read more

How the Budget transforms the fortunes of the North

Budget for the North: A Treasury outpost in Darlington, freeports in Liverpool, Teesside and Humber and an infrastructure bank in Leeds By Ruth Sunderland Business Editor For The Daily Mail Published: 22:13 GMT, 3 March 2021 | Updated: 22:13 GMT, 3 March 2021 A raft of measures was announced in yesterday’s Budget to transform the … Read more

Harry and Meghan’s interview with Oprah Winfrey will ‘make or break’ their fortunes in the US

Harry and Meghan’s interview with Oprah Winfrey will ‘make or break’ their fortunes in the US as they try ‘to woo and win over Americans’, experts say The programme will air immediately after CBS’s 60 Minutes show on March 7  Producer who used to work for Ms Winfrey said: ‘This is make or break for … Read more

Should you back a unicorn tycoon? The tech bosses who’ve made fortunes

With a net worth of about £136 billion, Elon Musk was this month crowned the richest man on the planet. It has been a dramatic rise to the top for Musk, with his wealth increasing fivefold in 2020, finally pushing Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, who had held the title since 2017, into second place. The … Read more

European bison see fortunes improve with conservation help

European bison, which at one time only survived in captivity, have been brought back from the brink of extinction thanks to conservation efforts, study finds. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List has been updated and includes 128,918 species, of which 35,756 are threatened with extinction. As a result of long-term conservation, the … Read more

Brooklyn Beckham and fiancée Nicola Peltz ‘have signed q prenup’ to protect their vast fortunes

They have reportedly had to postpone their wedding from September of 2021 to sometime in 2022.  But, Brooklyn Beckham, 21, and his heiress fiancée Nicola Peltz, 25, are said to have drawn up a prenuptial agreement to protect their vast family fortunes after becoming husband and wife.  According to a new report, should they split after tying … Read more

I’m A Celebrity: Unearthed clip shows Giovanna Fletcher took part in Vernon Kay’s Family Fortunes

I’m A Celebrity: Unearthed clip shows Giovanna Fletcher took part in Vernon Kay’s All Star Family Fortunes with husband Tom seven years ago By Connie Rusk For Mailonline Published: 22:48 GMT, 2 December 2020 | Updated: 22:53 GMT, 2 December 2020 Giovanna Fletcher and Vernon Kay had already rubbed shoulders in the showbiz world before … Read more

Family Fortunes viewers stunned after contestant proposes to his girlfriend mid-round

Family Fortunes viewers were left speechless last night after a romantic contestant proposed to his girlfriend mid-show. Liam Wain of the Russell Family, from Oxford, interrupted host Gino D’Acampo to reveal he had a ‘question of his own’ before leading girlfriend Nadine to the centre of the stage. He then delivered an emotional speech, telling … Read more

Beware ‘bedroom traders’ boasting of fortunes made from currency bets

Connor Walsh claims to have it all. A Lamborghini, the freedom of a £3 million mansion and a jet-setting job — all by the age of 25. Standing in front of his indoor swimming pool, he starts to tell his 138,000 Instagram followers how he did it. He struts over to his home bar and … Read more

The bosses who still made personal fortunes despite the Post Office’s darkest hour

They presided over one of the worst miscarriages of justice in British history, in which up to 960 sub-postmasters had their lives ruined after they were wrongly accused of pilfering, fraud and false accounting. Staff were plunged into a Kafka-esque nightmare after money seemed to vanish from their tills. They were pilloried even though the … Read more