Shares in Amigo plunge as high cost of complaints sends loans company to £27m loss Shares in the subprime lender fell by 23.7 per cent to 7.4p by mid-afternoon Amigo’s Acting Chair said it had undergone a ‘challenging and difficult period’ The firm recently agreed to resolve all complaints against them by October 31 By … Read more
The devastated mother of a law graduate who plunged 40ft to her death from a bridge while desperately seeking help after her car caught fire today said her daughter pleaded with rescuers: ‘Please don’t let me die’. Azra Kemal, 24, slipped through a 10ft wide void between two carriageways on a road bridge while escaping a … Read more
The UK’s coronavirus-hit economy could suffer a 13 per cent fall in GDP this year, with the threat of a second spike cases leading to more ‘economic uncertainty’, an expert has warned today. Economic expert Richard Hughes says the country has suffered an ‘exceptional economic shock’ due to the pandemic and warned that its GDP, … Read more
Jet2.com owner Dart Group sees profits fall as travel restrictions and flight cancellations continue to hit airline sector About 600,000 more people took a package holiday with Jet2Holidays last year Pilots’ union BALPA claimed in June that Jet2 planned to let go over 100 pilots Last summer, the company also managed to enlarge its fleet … Read more
Property prices across the country are set to continue falling over the next couple of years despite Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s stamp duty cut, new research suggests. The Centre for Economics and Business Research has predicted that house prices will fall by 5 per cent this year and a further 10.6 per cent in 2021. The CEBR … Read more
Households could see energy bills fall £20 a year under new proposals unveiled by the industry regulator. Ofgem will spend £25billion to invest in greener energy over the next five years to ‘transform Britain’s energy networks to deliver emissions-free green energy’. However, as part of that scheme, it wants energy network firms to halve the returns … Read more
Experts have warned that hard-up savers face more misery with providers likely to shave even more off the tiny returns currently on offer. Bankers and industry experts said the combination of a record low base rate of 0.1 per cent, cheap Bank of England cash in the form of quantitative easing, a fall in mortgage … Read more
Ghislaine Maxwell before the fall: As she languishes in a US cell, photos reveal the life of unbridled hedonism that Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘madam’ enjoyed for decades at society events Ghislaine Maxwell is currently in a US prison cell after she was arrested in America this week Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘madam’ lived a life of glamour that is … Read more
Ghislaine Maxwell before the fall: As she languishes in a US cell, photos reveal the life of unbridled hedonism that Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘madam’ enjoyed for decades at society events Ghislaine Maxwell is currently in a US prison cell after she was arrested in America this week Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘madam’ lived a life of glamour that is … Read more
A British stock market research firm today lays claim to being the first whistleblower to raise the alarm about the collapsed German payment giant, Wirecard. Mark Hiley, who runs The Analyst, reveals in The Mail on Sunday that he issued a ‘Red Flag Alert’ on Wirecard to his clients six years ago. The 2014 note, … Read more