Mortgage price war ramps up: Nationwide offers record breaking sub 1% five year fixed rate deal

Britain’s biggest building society has ramped up the mortgage price war after launching a record low sub 1 per cent five-year fixed rate deal. While rates below 1 per cent are not unusual for two year deals, Nationwide is offering this rate to those with a 40 per cent deposit remortgaging or moving, fixed until … Read more

Investor hopes for a bidding war over Morrisons are dealt a major blow

US private equity rivals join forces in Morrisons chase dashing investors’ hopes for a bidding war By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 17:00 EDT, 20 July 2021 | Updated: 17:00 EDT, 20 July 2021 Investors hoping for a bidding war over Morrisons were left disappointed yesterday as a US private equity firm withdrew … Read more

Boris Johnson makes light of UK-EU ‘sausage war’ row

Boris Johnson jokes to Angela Merkel the ‘wurst is behind us’ over post-Brexit UK-EU ‘sausage war’ as PM says the two sides must ‘sort out’ problems with the Northern Ireland Protocol Boris Johnson today joked the ‘wurst is behind us’ over EU-UK ‘sausage war’  Mr Johnson said UK and EU must ‘sort out’ issues with … Read more

Oxfam at war: Charity bosses change shop’s locks and axe volunteers in bitter two-year battle

 Oxfam’s bitter two-year feud over claims a staff member at a charity shop in Hay on Wye called Welsh ‘that bloody foreign language’ has a new twist in the tale.  Shop volunteers Susan and Paul Baker, a retired couple who took the time to volunteer for the charity for 30 years were the latest volunteers … Read more

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: A very uncivil war breaks out at the house of Bathurst 

The Countess of Bathurst, pictured with her husband the Earl of Bathurst, is upset after being ‘falsely’ credited with plans to introduce a charge at Cirencester Park That’s not very ladylike! Cotswold aristocrat Countess Bathurst has launched an extraordinary tirade against her own estate manager. The row has been sparked by proposed access charges to … Read more

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: A very uncivil war breaks out at the house of Bathurst 

The Countess of Bathurst, pictured with her husband the Earl of Bathurst, is upset after being ‘falsely’ credited with plans to introduce a charge at Cirencester Park That’s not very ladylike! Cotswold aristocrat Countess Bathurst has launched an extraordinary tirade against her own estate manager. The row has been sparked by proposed access charges to … Read more

World War Two veteran, 101, who survived horrors of Burma Death Railway is honoured by Spitfire

A 101-year-old veteran who was a Japanese prisoner of war and now volunteers with a cancer charity has enjoyed a spitfire flyby and Red Devils drop in at a huge party to mark his birthday.  Former Bombardier Len Gibson lived through the horrors of the Burma Death Railway and years as a prisoner of war, but … Read more

World War Two veteran, 101, who survived horrors of Burma Death Railway is honoured by Spitfire

A 101-year-old veteran who was a Japanese prisoner of war and now volunteers with a cancer charity has enjoyed a spitfire flyby and Red Devils drop in at a huge party to mark his birthday.  Former Bombardier Len Gibson lived through the horrors of the Burma Death Railway and years as a prisoner of war, but … Read more