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

Probe at Lloyds over allegations of fraud against small businesses

Lloyds Bank faces new police investigation into allegations of fraud against small businesses By A Daily Mail Reporter Published: 23:46 GMT, 1 March 2020 | Updated: 07:43 GMT, 2 March 2020 Lloyds Bank is facing a new police investigation into allegations of fraud against small businesses. Cardiff-based property investor Kashif Shabir has claimed the bank … Read more

What is the Bank Referral Scheme and why isn’t it helping small businesses?

A scheme to help small businesses turned down by banks borrow from peer-to-peer and alternative finance firms has proved ‘underwhelming’ and needs an overhaul, say experts. The Government-backed Bank Referral Scheme was launched in November 2016 and requires the UK’s biggest banks to refer small and medium-sized businesses they turn down for finance to a … Read more

Backlash over Chancellor’s £2.7bn tax raid on small firms

Furious backlash over Chancellor’s £2.7billion tax raid on small firms By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 23:45 GMT, 1 March 2020 | Updated: 07:46 GMT, 2 March 2020 There was a furious backlash last night against Government plans for a £2.7billion raid on small and medium-sized businesses. Chancellor Rishi Sunak is proposing to … Read more

Families should go by car to the French ski resort of Le Grand Bornand and save a small fortune

M’aidez! M’aidez!’ Deranged with panic, I flapped my arms and hollered for help. No ski trip for my family is complete without the international phrase for emergency being used at least once. Only this time I wasn’t shouting it from a slope-side collision but from the hard shoulder of a French motorway after coming to … Read more

TR EUROPEAN GROWTH TRUST: The fund that has big ideas in world of small firms 

TR EUROPEAN GROWTH TRUST: The fund that has big ideas in world of small firms By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:02 GMT, 29 February 2020 | Updated: 23:02 GMT, 29 February 2020 It is not just in the UK where smaller companies are expected to outperform the rest of the stock … Read more

Woman, 41, dies after taking small sip of wine from bottle laced with Ecstasy

Woman, 41, dies after taking small sip of wine from bottle laced with Ecstasy by drug traffickers in Belgium Unnamed woman reportedly discarded the bottle and collapsed shortly after Photos show the bottle’s branded cork had been replaced by a beige one She drank from bottle of 2016 Merlot-Cabernet Sauvignon by Black & Bianco  By … Read more

This small Peckham home looks like it belongs in the countryside

It looks like a pretty cottage in the heart of the countryside. But initial impressions can be deceptive, as this little gem of a property proves. Rather than being surrounded by fields, the house is in the heart of South East London’s Peckham, a now trendy hotspot with railway arch bars and old-school pubs that … Read more