Pandemic pushes older homeowners into thinking about downsizing earlier than planned By Money Mail Reporter For The Daily Mail Published: 22:00 GMT, 19 January 2021 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 19 January 2021 The pandemic has pushed nearly two million older homeowners to think about downsizing earlier than planned, new figures reveal. The survey of those … Read more
Facebook ‘smart glasses’ to launch ‘sooner rather than later’ in 2021 and may have a built-in camera – but no augmented reality for overlaying digital objects onto the real world Facebook has been working on creating smart glasses since 2017 Facebook boss says the device will be released ‘sooner rather than later’ However it will … Read more
CNN’s Emmy-winning anchor Anderson Cooper has been a father for seven months, after welcoming his mini-me son Wyatt Morgan, via surrogate, earlier this year. And, on Friday, the 53-year-old doting dad opened up about parenthood during an interview with Bruce Bozzi on SiriusXM’s Quarantined with Bruce. As Cooper reflected on waiting to have a child until he … Read more
Loose Women’s Andrea McLean has revealed that her biggest regret was not seeking out professional help sooner after battling a ‘nervous breakdown’ last year. The Scottish TV presenter, 51, admitted that she wishes that she had gotten help ‘years ago’, after she found herself in a dark place and even contemplating suicide while struggling with … Read more
Care home residents are expected to begin receiving Covid jabs within days after all. Officials have devised a way to split the Pfizer vaccine into small batches suitable for distribution to them. Initial plans to make vulnerable social care residents the first to get the jab were derailed when regulators put a limit on the … Read more
It was only a matter of time. So Friday’s announcement that fund manager Mark Barnett – dubbed ‘Son of Woodford’ – had left investment house Invesco by ‘mutual’ consent hardly took financial experts by surprise. Speaking to a number of investment advisers on Friday, the consensus view was that he should have been jettisoned by … Read more
Tens of thousands of coronavirus deaths in Britain may have been avoided if officials imposed the lockdown a fortnight earlier, a study has claimed. University of Edinburgh researchers said at least 2,000 lives would have been saved in Scotland, if the measures were brought in on March 9 instead of March 23. The official COVID-19 … Read more
Woodford management firm ‘let savers down’ by failing to raise alarm earlier, says former City minister By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 BST, 13 January 2020 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 13 January 2020 The fund services business which oversaw Neil Woodford’s doomed investment empire is under fire for failing to adequately protect … Read more
A leading Oxford professor has blasted the Government’s failure to introduce a lockdown sooner and says it was ‘completely out of step with almost all other European countries’. David Hunter condemned the ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ attitude among ministers, while scientists have repeatedly pressed the ‘panic button’. When EU neighbours Spain, the Netherlands, France … Read more