Since mortgage rates began rising, many of the nine million mortgaged households in the UK and close to two million landlords have been faced with the prospect of much higher payments.
Many had become accustomed to ultra-low interest rates for more than a decade.
In this six-part series, we look at how much more people are really paying when they take out a new mortgage, how households are coping and if a mortgage crisis is afoot.
Here we look at
Angry shoppers are turning their backs on major retailers that use parcel company Evri to deliver their online orders, Money Mail can reveal.
Popular British brands — including Marks & Spencer, Next and John Lewis — have been criticised for using the firm, voted the UK’s worst delivery company.
Money Mail receives an endless stream of complaints about the poor service customers have experienced with Evri, with many parcels arriving months late or lost entirely.
Evri is the UK’s largest
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ROME — At the end of NATO’s annual summit in Vilnius in July, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni wound up her press conference abruptly. It had nothing to do with the reporters’ questions, she said: her high heels were killing her.
A complaint of that kind at such a hothouse of masculine energy as a NATO summit would have been unimaginable for a previous generation of female leaders, who
Over-50s should break free from age-related job stereotypes and embrace a wider range of career opportunities – like becoming delivery riders or drivers for firms like Deliveroo and Just Eat – the Work and Pensions Secretary has suggested.
Mel Stride’s comments came during a visit to the London headquarters of food delivery firm Deliveroo, which has recorded a 62% increase in riders aged over 50 since 2021. In an interview with the Times during his visit to the food delivery
Britain has immense vision and ambition for big projects to drive higher productivity and a better economic future.
But the ability of government, regulators and managers to deliver is feeble.
Advocates of HS2 cannot but be appalled by the way that public confidence in a transforming infrastructure project is being undermined by leadership upheavals, budget over-runs and internecine wars over the Euston terminal in London.
The scheme has only become ‘unachievable,’ in the words of the Infrastructure & Projects Authority,
Hunter Biden’s business partner, Devon Archer, center, is expected to testify on Monday behind closed doors to the House Oversight Committee on President Biden’s interactions with dozens of Hunter’s business associates while he was vice president.
EXPLOSIVE TESTIMONY – Hunter Biden’s longtime friend and business
The CEO of an artificial intelligence “safety and research company” warned the Senate Tuesday that AI could be just a few years away from giving bad actors around the globe the capacity to carry out biological weapons attacks.
Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee that the prospect of AI helping people develop and deliver these weapons is a medium-term risk that his company is grappling with today.
“Over the last six months, Anthropic, in collaboration with
Tonight, NASA may just pull off one of its most ambitious feats in its 64-year history.
A NASA spacecraft called DART is due to crash into an asteroid that’s about 6.8 million miles away from Earth.
DART was launched from California last November – and finally completes its 10-month journey in the early hours of Tuesday, UK time.
DART’s target is the small asteroid Dimorphos, which orbits a larger asteroid called Didymos, around 6.8 million miles away from our planet.
Therese Coffey today outlined her four-step plan to fix the ailing NHS, unveiling her ‘ABCD’ list of priorities.
The newly-appointed Health Secretary, who will also be deputy PM underneath her close friend Liz Truss, promised to place ambulances, backlogs, care, doctors and dentists at the top of her agenda.
She has been tasked with putting the crisis-stricken NHS back on a ‘firm footing’ by the new Prime Minister.
In her first day in charge of the Department of Health and
Britain’s booster jab drive threatened to descend into chaos today as the autumn roll-out kicked off.
Health officials in England are still ‘urgently’ looking for volunteers to help dish out jabs, with them now engaged in a last-minute scramble to find thousands of people willing to help.
At the same time, retired medics who want to help are being delayed by ‘ridiculous’ bureaucracy, which sees them have to fill out various forms and pay to administer jabs.
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