Farmers cash in on Covid dairy drought with 24-hour vending machines

Business is booming for dairy farmers who are adapting to the Covid pandemic by bottling up their profits in vending machines.  As supermarkets struggle to meet the demand for dairy, two family-run farms have taken to selling milk fresh from the cow in self-serve dispensing machines.   Will Lambourne runs Townsend Farm in Marsh Gibbon, near Bicester … Read more

Companies backed by Nick Candy get £2m pandemic cash

Companies backed by billionaire Nick Candy tap taxpayer for more than £2m during coronavirus pandemic By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:54 GMT, 3 January 2021 | Updated: 21:54 GMT, 3 January 2021 Companies backed by billionaire Nick Candy have tapped the taxpayer for more than £2m since the pandemic began.  Blippar and … Read more

Fear of bank closures as lockdown lessens use of cash

Fear of more bank branch closures as lockdown lessens use of cash Nearly a third of consumers have stopped using cash since the initial lockdown  Some 28% said they have stopped using cash machines altogether  By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:21 GMT, 2 January 2021 | Updated: 09:26 GMT, 3 January … Read more

Fear of bank closures as lockdown lessens use of cash

Fear of more bank branch closures as lockdown lessens use of cash Nearly a third of consumers have stopped using cash since the initial lockdown  Some 28% said they have stopped using cash machines altogether  By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:21 GMT, 2 January 2021 | Updated: 22:21 GMT, 2 January … Read more

Investment banks scoop £5bn from UK firms racing to raise cash

Investment banks scoop £5bn from UK firms racing to raise cash to see them through the pandemic By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:18 GMT, 29 December 2020 | Updated: 22:18 GMT, 29 December 2020 Investment banks have scooped £4.9billion from UK firms this year as desperate companies scrambled to raise cash to … Read more

Piers Morgan loses £15,000 on quiz show… but donates missing cash to charity

Piers Morgan loses £15,000 on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire… but generously gives charity the missing cash out of his own pocket By Kate Dennett For Mailonline Published: 01:50 GMT, 27 December 2020 | Updated: 01:51 GMT, 27 December 2020 Piers Morgan was left feeling downtrodden after losing £15,000 on Who Wants To Be A … Read more

Piers Morgan loses £15,000 on quiz show… but donates missing cash to charity

Piers Morgan loses £15,000 on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire… but generously gives charity the missing cash out of his own pocket By Kate Dennett For Mailonline Published: 01:50 GMT, 27 December 2020 | Updated: 01:51 GMT, 27 December 2020 Piers Morgan was left feeling downtrodden after losing £15,000 on Who Wants To Be A … Read more

New Year’s resolutions: I’ll save cash by shopping the old fashioned way

JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Save and save some more Lockdown caused me to reset my savings dial. Unable to go out and do the things I love – listen to live music, go to the cinema and travel the country watching West Bromwich Albion Football Club – I went into squirrel mode and saved. It is a habit … Read more

Lily Allen joins fan messaging website Cameo to raise cash for new album

Lily Allen has joined a long list of celebrities in joining the fan messaging website Cameo, in a bid to raise cash to fund her new album. The 35-year-old singer, whose critically-acclaimed album No Shame was her most recent release in 2018, is now charging fans £187.50 for personalised messages. And in a video message … Read more

ASK TONY: I was conned out of my cash by Bitcoin boiler-room scam 

You must get plenty of letters about older people being scammed out of their money by shysters. Unfortunately, I am a stupid woman who has been conned out of £12,500. Only when I asked my husband for more money did the scam, which started with a phone call, come to light.  The first £1,000 was … Read more