The £187 holiday that could cost you £4,000:  Beware Covid small print

Dirt cheap family holidays abroad on sale for just a few hundred pounds could end up costing travellers thousands. Travel firms have slashed the price of trips abroad after a 19-week ban on holidays overseas was lifted on Monday. Ministers revealed a ‘green list’ of 12 countries that people can visit without having to isolate … Read more

Ozzy Osbourne defends wife Sharon amid controversy that cost her job on The Talk

Ozzy Osbourne defends wife Sharon amid controversy that cost her job on The Talk By Dailymail.com Reporter Published: 05:30 BST, 18 May 2021 | Updated: 05:32 BST, 18 May 2021 Ozzy Osbourne defended his wife Sharon in his first public comments following her exit from CBS’s The Talk in March, amid a divisive discussion about … Read more

MARK PALMER: The joy of a flight to the sun… but red tape cost me a cool £197! 

There wasn’t a single spare seat on the first flight out from Heathrow to Lisbon on Monday.  But it didn’t feel like a stampede as some 140 passengers quietly, and a little nervously, boarded BA flight 500. They were clutching their hand luggage, cradling coffees – and praying they had not only the right paperwork to … Read more

MPs call to expand green list or it could cost UK £19bn

‘Expand green list or cost UK £19bn’: MPs call for more countries to be added to register of ‘safe’ travel destinations to boost economy as we move out of Covid lockdown Study group predicts international tourism revenue will plummet to just £1.1bn It pales in comparison to the £20.2bn pre-pandemic for June, July and August … Read more

SIR ANDREW DILNOT: Boris Johnson cannot duck care cost crisis any longer

The moral strength of a society can be judged by how it treats its most vulnerable citizens. In most respects Britain does well on that measure, as reflected by the NHS, education and the benefits system, where essential needs are met collectively by the state. But there is one glaring omission: namely, social care. Despite … Read more

Coronavirus travel: Cost of flying to ‘green list’ Portugal plummets by 76%

The cost of flying to Portugal has plunged over the weekend with Ryanair putting on dozens of flights to Faro, Lisbon and Porto shortly after the country was cleared three days ago for quarantine-free trips from May 17. Britons travelling from London to Lisbon next Monday before coming home a week later can get a … Read more

Coronavirus travel: Cost of flying to ‘green list’ Portugal plummets by 76%

The cost of flying to Portugal has plunged over the weekend with Ryanair putting on dozens of flights to Faro, Lisbon and Porto shortly after the country was cleared three days ago for quarantine-free trips from May 17. Britons travelling from London to Lisbon next Monday before coming home a week later can get a … Read more

NS&I: Could a 2019 terms tweak cost you hundreds of pounds in tax?

Hundreds of thousands of savers face the prospect of handing some of their savings interest to the taxman after two-year-old terms and conditions changes by NS&I begin to bite, This is Money can reveal.  The Treasury-backed bank altered the way in which savings interest is treated for tax purposes in May 2019, with just under … Read more

Cutting pension payments during Covid could cost over-50s tens of thousands

Millions of over-50s could be tens of thousands of pounds worse off in retirement after cutting pension contributions during the pandemic One in eight workers aged over 50 cut their pension payments in Covid crisis Expert says savers should consider every possible alternative before doing this Do you need help fixing your finances? Find a … Read more