Furlough applications blocked over fraud fears

Thousands of furlough applications blocked by taxman due to fears they are fraudulent By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 BST, 21 August 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 21 August 2020 Thousands of furlough applications have been blocked by the taxman due to fears they are fraudulent.  More than 30,000 applications for the … Read more

Italian village that offered FREE stays to boost tourism industry is inundated with 8k applications 

A village in southern Italy that offered tourists free lodgings to boost the local economy has been inundated with 8000 holiday requests from across the world.   At the end of June, the remote medieval hamlet of San Giovanni in Galdo, around 90 miles northeast of Naples, decided to offer travellers a free one-week stay in … Read more

Italian village that offered FREE stays to boost tourism industry is inundated with 8k applications 

A village in southern Italy that offered tourists free lodgings to boost the local economy has been inundated with 8000 holiday requests from across the world.   At the end of June, the remote medieval hamlet of San Giovanni in Galdo, around 90 miles northeast of Naples, decided to offer travellers a free one-week stay in … Read more

Restaurant group Qoot receives 700 applications for three jobs

Restaurant group Qoot is inundated with 700 applications for three jobs in just 24 hours Qoot runs restaurants in London and the Middle East and is opening new ones It had to withdraw the jobs advert after 48 hours By Harriet Dennys For Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 22:30 BST, 8 August 2020 | Updated: … Read more

UK passport applications will be fast-tracked for Britons going on holiday in the next two weeks

UK passport applications will be fast-tracked in five days for Britons going on holiday in the next two weeks – as government battles with 400,000 Covid backlog If you have been waiting more than a month and are due to travel within two weeks, you will receive your passport within five days under new measures … Read more

From passport applications to holiday refunds, the Holiday Guru solves traveller queries

From passport applications to holiday refunds, we can help: The Holiday Guru answers traveller queries By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 10:50 BST, 18 July 2020 | Updated: 10:50 BST, 18 July 2020 The Holiday Guru is always on call to answer your questions. This week issues tackled include holiday refunds, passport applications and booking hotels in … Read more

Trump’s Tulsa rally had up to 300,000 FAKE ticket applications

Donald Trump’s campaign has privately admitted that as many as 300,000 of the people who signed up for Saturday’s rally in Tulsa were online tricksters as the president’s fury mounts over the lack of attendance. Trump and his campaign manager Brad Parscale bragged that one million tickets had been requested, only for the 19,000-seat BOK … Read more

DVLA grants a seven-month extension for driving licence applications

Motorists granted a seven-month extension for driving licence renewals as the DVLA struggles to process applications during pandemic Drivers with photocard licences due to expire between 1 February and 31 August 2020 will be granted an extension to have them renewed  Licences will be automatically extended by seven months from date of expiry  Impacted motorists … Read more

Family lawyer predicts a surge in divorce applications once lockdown is lifted

Talking through a day in her life, Claire says she sets her alarm at 5.45am – the same time as when she was travelling into London – starts her day with pilates, before putting together all the home schooling exercises for the day.   After getting the boys up early for breakfast and settled for ‘school’ by 8.30am, … Read more

Family lawyer predicts a surge in divorce applications once lockdown is lifted

Talking through a day in her life, Claire says she sets her alarm at 5.45am – the same time as when she was travelling into London – starts her day with pilates, before putting together all the home schooling exercises for the day.   After getting the boys up early for breakfast and settled for ‘school’ by 8.30am, … Read more