Family share heartbreaking battle to have their home adapted for their disabled daughter

A devastated mother whose husband and daughter both have serious illnesses has told how they lost their life savings after a firm tasked with building their dream home went bust. Childcare worker Cath Tyrie, 49, from Stockport, explained her daughter Stevie, 13, has a learning disability and cerebral palsy, which has left her needing help dressing, washing … Read more

ALEX BRUMMER: Virus reveals a debt trap as share prices fall?

The big question about Covid-19 is: do the authorities know something we don’t?  This was not my observation but that of a UK FTSE 100 chairman employing 130,000 staff around the world with a big presence in the US and China. The decision of America’s central bank, the Federal Reserve, to slash its key interest … Read more

SMALL CAP SHARE IDEAS: Jubilee Metals’ cashflow opportunities multiply 

One way to look past the market collapse on the coronavirus outbreak, is to limit investment horizons to those companies with simple and straightforward business models. Jubilee Metals is one such company. In recent years it has made a speciality of recovering metal from old mine waste, initially platinum and chrome, but increasingly now, other … Read more

MIDAS SHARE TIPS: Need a bright spark amid all the gloom? This one really IS a Golden Prospect! 

In 2011, the gold price peaked at just over $1,900 (£1,470) a troy ounce. At that time, global economic prospects looked bleak, interest rates were at rock bottom and investors were turning to gold as an insurance policy. Today, conditions are arguably even shakier than they were then. Fears of recession are growing, fuelled by … Read more

MIDAS SHARE TIPS UPDATE: Builder Morgan Sindall is on the highway to profit

MIDAS SHARE TIPS UPDATE: Builder Morgan Sindall is on the highway to profit as shares rise 24% in just over two years By Joanne Hart for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:00 GMT, 29 February 2020 | Updated: 23:00 GMT, 29 February 2020 Morgan Sindall is a construction group with a heart. The company was … Read more

MailOnline readers share the coronavirus ‘essentials’ they’re stockpiling

MailOnline readers have revealed their essential stockpiling items and survival shopping lists as those worried about the shortage of anti-bacterial hand gel began sharing homemade sanitiser recipes to fight coronavirus. Britons have already started panic buying water and canned food, with some even setting up ‘isolation’ rooms at home in case a pandemic shuts down their communities. A … Read more

People share hilarious signs they came across, from murderous bumper stickers to punny wifi-password

You have been warned! The VERY funny signs people have spotted in bars, cafes and public toilets – including one urging people to behave like ‘their mum is watching’ People from all over the UK and US shared hilarious signs they had came across   They were all collated in a fun-filled gallery by viral news … Read more

What became of the wives who wowed Britain? Here they share their tales of love, loss and friendship

New film Military Wives, starring Dame Kristin Scott Thomas, is based on the inspirational choir of the same name.  The phenomenon bloomed into the Military Wives Choirs, a charity which supports 2,300 women from the military community in 76 choirs across the UK and abroad.  Here, nine original members tell JILL FOSTER how they found … Read more

The Cambridges and the Sussexes share multiple Instagram posts on the same day

The Cambridges and the Sussexes were particularly active on Instagram today, both sharing two posts in quick succession of each other. This morning Prince Harry, 35, and Meghan Markle, 38, shared a post promoting his visit to Scotland, which aimed to look at how local tourism can protect the environment and support local communities. Just … Read more