A child’s Mother’s Day card: simple but potent with yearning. Five-year-old Gabriella Ratcliffe drew a red plane with a flower on its wings for her mum. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was freed last week for a fortnight from an Iranian jail. Could any words express more eloquently a small child’s hope that her absent mummy — ankle-tagged … Read more
Should you put your mortgage on hold for three months? Repayment holidays now available on loans for your home or buy-to-let property Homeowners facing financial difficulty due to coronavirus offered vital lifeline A ‘mortgage holiday’ allows them to suspend repayments for up to three months When it ends, you can pay back interest built up … Read more
Landlords hold lock-ins to sell off their beer while crowds gather to drink outside pubs as boozers flout Boris Johnson’s coronavirus lockdown on day one Landlords have been criticised for holding lock-ins breaching coronvirus rules Members of the public have filmed people staggering out of pubs since Friday Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered the closure … Read more
The owners of a farm who recently won their battle over ‘bullies and abusers’ to keep their privately-owned beauty spot have described the neighbours who threatened them as a ‘vipers nest’. Ruth Ramsden, 56, and her husband James, a barrister, initially turned down an application to turn the creekside copse at their home on Shillingham … Read more
Gilead Sciences Inc said on Sunday it was temporarily putting new emergency access to its experimental coronavirus drug on hold. Remdesivir has been touted by Donald Trump and credited with helping in the recovery of a 79-year-old Italian man who had the disease. But the drugmaker said in a statement there had been an exponential increase … Read more
Gilead Sciences Inc said on Sunday it was temporarily putting new emergency access to its experimental coronavirus drug on hold. Remdesivir has been touted by Donald Trump and credited with helping in the recovery of a 79-year-old Italian man who had the disease. But the drugmaker said in a statement there had been an exponential increase … Read more
More than 25 major high street chains hold crunch talks with landlords to avert stores axe By Neil Craven for The Mail on Sunday Published: 23:07 GMT, 21 March 2020 | Updated: 23:07 GMT, 21 March 2020 More than 25 major high street chains are in crunch talks with landlords over a massive rent bill … Read more
The location where NASA plans to land its rover on Mars could hold signs of ancient microbial life. Scientists are set to investigate the Jezero crater in the Mars 2020 mission, which was home to a lake 3.5 billion years ago and is littered with carbonates and hydrated silica. Carbonates located in the crater’s inner rim … Read more
A slump in passenger numbers as a result of coronavirus has led to an increase in airlines running ‘ghost’ flights to hold on to valuable take-off and landing slots at British airports. The slots are run by the independent slot coordinator ACL on a ‘use it or lose it’ basis, with carriers told to use … Read more
Why did the Fed’s ‘big bazooka’ misfire? Shares sink as fear still holds sway but central banks are showing they’ll do whatever it takes to steady the ship By Alex Sebastian For This Is Money Published: 15:25 GMT, 16 March 2020 | Updated: 15:26 GMT, 16 March 2020 Stock markets took yet another big dive … Read more