Experts are sounding the alarm that homeowners “worse could be yet to come” as mortgage rates are expected to rise later this week.
This warning comes after the Bank of England released figures that revealed net mortgage approvals for house purchases saw an increase from 51,100 in May to 54,700 in June.
Despite this uptake in homeownership, mortgage lenders are reminding those attempting to get on the property ladder that further interest rate hikes are coming.
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The state’s reparations task force is inspiring an effort to relax criminal punishment.
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Coutts and its parent company NatWest de-banked Nigel Farage in an attempt to ‘woke-wash’ their image due to banks having lost touch with the general public, a public relations expert has claimed. And the resulting scandal was made worse due their own “hubris” and failed attempts to “spin” the facts, the PR guru added.
NatWest boss Dame Alison Rose resigned on Wednesday (July 26) after admitting she was the source of an inaccurate story about Farage’s finances. The resignation followed
New charges make clear that special counsel Jack Smith intends to hold Trump accountable in every way possible, for all of the crimes in Smith’s purview.
Donald Trump speaks at the Turning Point Action conference on July 15, 2023, in West Palm Beach, Fla.
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The three new felony charges against Donald Trump that were unveiled on Thursday in connection with his federal classified documents indictment came as a bit of a letdown, since
British tourists in Rhodes and Corfu are scrambling to get home as wildfires rip through the Greek islands amid 45C heat, sparking Greece’s largest disaster evacuation ever.
Families were forced to curl up on the floors of Rhodes International Airport and sports halls for a second night running as they wait to be taken home, but officials have warned the dire situation could yet get worse.
With thousands of tourists caught up in hours of delays at the airport after
Eddie Redmayne, main, as Stephen Wraysford in BBC adaptation of Birdsong (Image: BBC)
It was a question that endlessly haunted Sebastian Faulks during the writing in an astonishing six-month burst of creativity of Birdsong, his groundbreaking and bestselling novel of the First World War: “How far can you go?” As a new father with another child on the way, he grew increasingly angry pondering the staggering death toll during research trips to the Imperial War Museum to read the accounts
Alexandra Capelouto was found slumped over on her bed by her mother, Christine, two days before Christmas.
The 20-year-old sociology major at Arizona State University, who had returned home to Temecula, California on her winter break in 2019, had taken what she thought was a batch of oxycodone to help her sleep.
Instead, it was fentanyl, the deadly drug destroying lives across America. The man who sold it to her, Brandon Michael McDowell, 23, was jailed for nine years in
The Memphis Police Chief has warned that footage of five officers beating Tyre Nichols to death is worse than that of Rodney King.
King was brutally attacked by LAPD officers in 1991, with their acquittal the following year sparking one of the worst race riots in US history.
Tyre, 29, died in hospital on January 10, three days after five officers viciously beat him during a traffic stop.
Footage of the incident will be uploaded to YouTube by the police
A vibrant new brainteaser from one of the internet’s most popular illustrators has challenged players to find the three empty glasses in a festive party.
The Hungarian artist Gergely Dudas, better known as Dudolf, released a typically playful seek-and-find puzzle, showing a New Year’s Eve celebration with adorable animals.
The tricky puzzle is set at a party full of various characters dressed in paper hats enjoying a chaotic time.
But while each animal holds a glass of fizz, only three
Surges in viral infections like flu, RSV and Covid may be behind the spate of serious Strep A illnesses, experts have claimed.
Nine children have already died of the usually-harmless bug, with a five-year-old girl in Northern Ireland today becoming the latest victim. Health officials have admitted this winter’s death toll, although low, is higher than expected.
Doctors suspect high levels of winter viruses in children, thought in part to be down to the knock-on effect of lockdown restrictions, might
