Tory rebels sink plans to ease Sunday trading rules

Tory rebels sink plan to ease Sunday trading laws to help retailers recover from the coronavirus lockdown Government had considered plans to increase Sunday trading hours for shops However, backbenchers rebelled and saw it cut from Business and Planning Bill The move had received support from Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson It was hoped … Read more

Author recalls growing up with alcoholic dad and drug addict sister in a sink estate in the Nineties

An author has shared a candid account of growing up on a Scottish sink estate in the Nineties. Fashion journalist Lynne Coleman, who has written three books and now lives in Edinburgh, moved to an ex-council house in Auchenback, a few miles outside of Glasgow, when she was six. She told how arson, vandalism and violent … Read more

VICTORIA BISCHOFF: Sink the small-print insurance sharks

VICTORIA BISCHOFF: Insurance sharks risk their reputations being damaged as much as their bank balances By Victoria Bischoff for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 19 May 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 19 May 2020 Insurers are in grave danger of being cast as the villains of this crisis. As we reveal today, small-business owners … Read more

Everything plus the kitchen sink 

Everything plus the kitchen sink By Charlotte Page Published: 00:02 BST, 5 April 2020 | Updated: 00:02 BST, 5 April 2020 Are you following the latest crazy hashtag trending on Instagram? At #sinkie you can share snaps of your kitchen sink surrounded by flowers, cleaning utensils – even pets. And right now we’re more than … Read more

Will coronavirus sink the property market? This is Money podcast

We publish our podcast every Friday to the player on This is Money, above, and on Apple Podcasts (iTunes) and on the podcast platforms Audioboom and Acast, both of which allow you to listen on desktop, mobile, or download an app. We also now publish to Spotify. To download the Apple Podcasts app if you … Read more

Tullow Oil slashes workers as it reveals oil price rout could sink it

Tullow Oil slashes workforce as it reveals recent oil price rout could sink it By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 23:17 GMT, 12 March 2020 | Updated: 00:31 GMT, 13 March 2020 Tullow Oil’s future was in doubt last night it revealed that the recent oil price rout could sink it. The energy … Read more