Take-up of a scheme allowing people to delay selling their houses to pay care home fees exposes a ‘postcode lottery’, according to research by a law firm. A selective survey of 10 local authorities reveals that the rate of deferred payment agreements among self-funded care home residents ‘varies wildly’ from 0.9 per cent in East … Read more
National Lottery website and app both crash after power failure ahead of £5m Lotto draw tonight Customers trying to access the website are told online services are ‘unavailable’ The power outage took place in the Watford area, an town northwest of London On Twitter, The National Lottery apologised for any inconvenience caused today By James Wood For … Read more
Local tips and recycling centres will reopen in some parts of England this weekend while others will remain closed despite a surge in fly-tipping. Residents in Hampshire, Northumberland and Greater Manchester are among those able to clear out excess waste when refuse sites reopen – with a variety of restrictions – from tomorrow, after the … Read more
Virus grants are postcode lottery for small firms with some councils paying just one in ten eligible companies By James Salmon for the Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 22 April 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 22 April 2020 Desperate firms scrambling for emergency grants to survive the pandemic face a ‘postcode lottery’, with some councils … Read more
The National Lottery will divert £300m to support Britain’s most vulnerable amid coronavirus crisis in biggest UK non-government contribution since outbreak began By Danny Gallagher For Mailonline Published: 12:21 GMT, 28 March 2020 | Updated: 16:56 GMT, 28 March 2020 The National Lottery is set to join the fight against coronavirus by distributing up to … Read more
Amazon held talks on bid to takeover the National Lottery By Harriet Dennys For Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 23:47 GMT, 14 March 2020 | Updated: 10:07 GMT, 15 March 2020 Amazon held talks about bidding to run the National Lottery, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. The discussions fizzled out, but the US tech … Read more