Lockdown savers pile £8bn into Hargreaves Lansdown: Broker’s billionaire founders to receive £82m in dividends By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 7 August 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 7 August 2020 Hargreaves Lansdown was boosted by an influx of customers during lockdown, as thousands of Britons sat down to order their … Read more
Britain will either have to raise taxes or cut spending to pay £2TRILLION covid bill: New head of the government’s OBR watchdog warns UK can’t rely on inflation to pay off debt over decades The new head of the OBR warned that inflation will not tackle the UK’s debt pile Richard Hughes said 30 per … Read more
MARKET REPORT: Eager investors pile into contractor Capita after it confirms it is lining up the sale of a lucrative IT arm By Francesca Washtell For The Daily Mail Published: 21:58 BST, 22 June 2020 | Updated: 21:58 BST, 22 June 2020 Eager investors piled into Capita after it confirmed it is lining up the … Read more
Picking up a sprawling — but crumbling — castle or mansion for as little as the price of a three-bed semi may seem like an impossible dream. Certainly, anyone hoping to buy 33-bedroom Troy House in Monmouthshire for the guide price of £200,000 at auction last month will have gone away disappointed: it sold for … Read more
Dead bodies have reportedly piled up in hospital lobbies as India’s capital fast runs out of hospital beds and struggles to contain the pandemic amid a surge in coronavirus cases. It comes after critics said it did too little to prepare and reopened shopping malls and temples too soon. Some families of people infected with … Read more
Boris Johnson was under huge pressure on Wednesday night to cut the two-metre social distancing rule. MPs and industry leaders warn that keeping the restriction in place could sink tens of thousands of businesses. Campaigners say it stops schools reopening properly while pubs and restaurants fear going bust. The World Health Organisation recommends a one-metre … Read more
Pizza Express prepares to cut a slice off its debt pile despite £70m loan Pizza Express is ‘highly likely’ to launch a restructuring of its giant debt pile S&P said the business now faces ‘additional hurdles’ turning its fortunes around Pizza Express is due to repay £465million to bondholders next year By Neil Craven for … Read more
Plastic purge: Britain’s personal debt pile SHRANK in March as people shun credit cards amid coronavirus crisis Bank of England found households paid back £3.8bn more than they borrowed Of that, £2.4bn came from credit cards and the rest from other loans The bank said a collapse in new lending was the big reason, as … Read more
‘The best advert I’ve ever seen!’ Married At First Sight fans go wild over a Koala mattress commercial mocking the show and its ‘cheating trash’ stars By Joshua Fox For Daily Mail Australia Published: 23:59 GMT, 3 March 2020 | Updated: 00:42 GMT, 4 March 2020 A spoof advert from mattress brand Koala sent Married … Read more