Late last year, HSBC was offering a £205 cash bonus for new customers switching bank account.
I checked the small print and qualified for the offer, so I applied and got the account. But I realised later I never received the bonus cash.
When I called HSBC to ask why, it said I wasn’t eligible because it was only for new customers who had not had any HSBC accounts since at least 2018.
I once had an account with Midland
House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks to reporters at the Capitol on Tuesday, following a meeting with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP
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Mike Johnson was a few months away from assuming elected office in late 2014 when he was confronted with an impassioned appeal by the man he would later pay tribute to in his first speech as House speaker: his
November 21, 2023
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Harvard students protest for Palestine during the Yale-Harvard football game at the Yale Bowl in New Haven, CT November 18, 2023.
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Of all the stars to appear on Parkinson, Fred Astaire was the one I was most in awe of. I love dance, admire dancers greatly and have never seen anyone who even comes close to Astaire.
Gene Kelly told me: ‘I dance like a truck driver. He dances like an aristocrat.’
We asked Fred Astaire if he would dance on the show. He said his dancing days were over but he would sing a few of the songs that had
A heartbroken dog has been abandoned in an airport car park by its cruel owner who dumped the pooch after they were told they couldn’t take it on their flight.
The unnamed French Bulldog was found abandoned in a stroller in the short-stay area of the Pittsburgh International Airport car park on Friday morning around 5:30 am.
The dog’s owner reportedly abandoned her adorable pooch after she falsely claimed it was an emotional support dog.
Officials didn’t believe her and
Coronation Street star Catherine Tyldesley has hit back at a local bakery owner who refused to make her 100 cakes for her birthday in exchange for social media and magazine plugs.
Rebecca Severs, from Keighley, shared a Facebook post this week with a screenshot of an email exchange between her bakery and the PR company which represented an unidentified ‘well-known’ celebrity asking for a cake for a 40th birthday party in September. They also requested 100 cupcakes and an extra
Liverpool apparently had to ban their former youngster Jordan Rossiter from wearing an Everton kit to training when he was plying his trade in the Reds academy. The midfielder starred for Liverpool’s youth teams before being snapped up by Rangers. And he is now playing for Bristol Rovers under fellow Toffees fan Joey Barton.
Rossiter spent the first part of his career with Liverpool after being spotted by the Merseysiders as a youngster. But ex-MK Dons boss Karl Robinson, who
A mum has taken to TikTok to share how she took revenge on a woman who refused to swap plane seats with her.
The mother, comedian Cindy Arena, said she wanted to sit with her two kids on the plane journey.
However, she hadn’t booked the family seats together so instead asked the passenger next to her children if they would swap seats with her.
Cindy said in her video: “The woman refused to get up. She refused and my
A former Olympic boxer was convicted of kidnapping and killing his pregnant lover by tossing her off a bridge into a lagoon in Puerto Rico, allegedly after she refused to get an abortion.
Félix Verdejo-Sánchez, 30, was found guilty on Friday of kidnapping resulting in death and intentionally killing an unborn child following a three-month trial in the U.S. District Court of Puerto Rico. The jury of three women and nine men deliberated for three days but could not reach
