Sainsbury’s shares rise as it reveals £500m saving from government stimulus package giving retailers a 100% business rates holiday Sainsbury’s customers can now buy no more than three of a grocery product Tesco’s 24-hour stores will no longer be open all day so that they are restocked EU drivers’ hours rules have been relaxed so … Read more
Activists like Greta Thunberg have put climate change at the top of the agenda As Greta Thunberg puts the environment at the top of the agenda and even bakery chain Greggs sees the financial benefits of a vegan sausage roll, the investment industry is responding to changing customer demand. Imagine if we all used our … Read more
Colourised images showing how doctors and nurses fought to save Spanish Flu sufferers in 1918 have been revealed for the first time a century later. They show community centres and sports halls in the US converted into makeshift hospitals for the sick, while cinemas were closed and people wore face masks when they went to … Read more
I’ve come into some money and would like to pay down my mortgage but my lender has an overpayment limit – is there any way around this? By This Is Money Reporter Published: 07:46 GMT, 16 April 2019 | Updated: 15:40 GMT, 16 April 2019 I’ve recently received a generous lump sum of cash and … Read more
ITV gives more than £40 million to its ‘Golden Four’ Phillip Schofield, Holly Willoughby and Ant and Dec to save them huge tax bills They all renegotiated big money deals ahead of changes to HMRC’s policy It means that employees are unable to be paid as a freelancer in future A source said ‘there is some … Read more
Have doctors found a coronavirus wonder drug? Two experts reveal how experimental antiviral remdesivir saved one woman who was in critical condition and helped 14 infected Diamond Princess passengers Doctors have treated more than a dozen American coronavirus patients with remdesivir – an experimental antiviral drug The drug was administered to a critically ill California … Read more
Jack Legind, 25, could save more than £2,000 in student loan interest over five years if the Government swapped the ‘flawed’ retail prices index measure of inflation with CPIH Debt-saddled university graduates could save thousands of pounds in interest charged on student loans if the Government follows through with proposals to scrap a flawed measure … Read more
The recent announcement that divorce laws are to be relaxed is a welcome one. Most couples who get married hope to live happily ever after, yet the brutal reality is that more than 40 per cent of modern marriages end in divorce. In that case, why make getting divorced more difficult and stressful than it has … Read more
Firefighters save pig’s bacon after it ate another swine’s pedometer – and caught fire when it came out the other end Firefighters were called to the pigpen in Bramham, West Yorkshire, on Sunday Blaze had been caused by copper from the device’s batteries reacting with hay Pedometer had clearly been mistaken by a pig as … Read more
A baby boy has been fitted with a heart valve taken from a cow in a mammoth six-hour operation to save his life. Ten-month-old Bradley Harrison was born with a complex set of five heart defects which restrict blood flow through his body. Born with a deformed pulmonary valve, he underwent grueling surgery at just … Read more