Fare deal! Uber offers half-price rides to 150 pubs reopening from April 12

Uber is offering half-price rides to 150 pubs across the country in a bid to get locked-down Brits back out drinking when venues finally reopen next week. The ride-sharing app has launched a campaign to help get England’s boozers back on their feet, with the wider hospitality sector decimated by restrictions in recent months. Many … Read more

Fare deal! Uber offers half-price rides to 150 pubs reopening from April 12

Uber is offering half-price rides to 150 pubs across the country in a bid to get locked-down Brits back out drinking when venues finally reopen next week. The ride-sharing app has launched a campaign to help get England’s boozers back on their feet, with the wider hospitality sector decimated by restrictions in recent months. Many … Read more

Silversea World Cruise 2023 sells out in just one day – even though the cheapest fare is £58,000 

A world cruise has sold out in just one day – despite the cheapest fare being £58,000 ($74,000). The 2023 sailing on Silversea’s Silver Shadow will last 139 days and call at 66 destinations in 34 countries across five continents. But even with prices of up to £218,000 ($278,000) per guest, it fully sold out … Read more

TONY HETHERINGTON: I’m going off the rails trying to pay £7 fare

Tony Hetherington is Financial Mail on Sunday’s ace investigator, fighting readers corners, revealing the truth that lies behind closed doors and winning victories for those who have been left out-of-pocket. Find out how to contact him below. S.H. writes: I used Trainline to buy a £7 Merseyrail ticket from Ormskirk to Liverpool Central Station, but … Read more

How did global equities fare in 2020?

David Buik is a financial commentator and a consultant for Aquis Exchange In September 2019, disturbing rumours started to permeate out of a city little-known outside of China, Wuhan.  It was purported that Wuhan was being savaged by an unknown virus, eventually to be known as Covid-19. The world just watched out of interest. Little … Read more

Ater making his name with rich country fare, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is back with a new look

Two sugars in my cuppa. Toffee Crisp chocolate bars. Fish and chips, of course. And even, at the end of a night out, the odd kebab. Not to mention the regular bottle of wine shared with my wife at the end of a busy working day. I might have a reputation for growing my own, … Read more

Ater making his name with rich country fare, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is back with a new look

Two sugars in my cuppa. Toffee Crisp chocolate bars. Fish and chips, of course. And even, at the end of a night out, the odd kebab. Not to mention the regular bottle of wine shared with my wife at the end of a busy working day. I might have a reputation for growing my own, … Read more

Not fare! Plumber, 18, left fuming after Uber charged him £111 for TWO-MILE trip home from the pub

Not fare! Plumber, 18, is left fuming after Uber charged him £111 for a TWO-MILE trip home from the pub – over 22 times the normal price of £5 Matt Bennett, 18, from Arnold, Nottinghamshire, was charged extortionate fee Was travelling from the Plainsman pub in Mapperley to his home two miles away Previously the … Read more

Next year’s rail fare increases should be scrapped, says transport watchdog

Next year’s rail fare increases should be scrapped and more flexible season tickets introduced says transport watchdog Transport Focus is demanding a radical shake-up of the ticketing system  The watchdog has proposed a Head Out to Help Out scheme to drive footfall It also called for an overhaul of season tickets, which it described as … Read more