Insurance giants axe dividends worth £1.3bn in fresh blow to beleaguered savers

Insurance giants axe dividends worth £1.3bn in fresh blow to beleaguered savers By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:55 BST, 8 April 2020 | Updated: 22:19 BST, 8 April 2020 Insurance giants have axed dividends worth £1.3 billion in a fresh blow to beleaguered savers.  Aviva, Direct Line, Hiscox and RSA Group all … Read more

Retail chiefs say billions of pounds worth of clothing is being prepared for huge ‘liquidation sale’

Retail chiefs say billions of pounds worth of clothing is being prepared for huge ‘liquidation sale’ By Neil Craven, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:56 BST, 4 April 2020 | Updated: 23:10 BST, 4 April 2020 Billions of pounds worth of clothing is being prepared for a huge ‘liquidation sale’, retail chiefs have told The … Read more

Lockdown in luxury: Billionaire Russian oil baron’s superyacht worth £140m spotted moored off Dorset

Lockdown in luxury: Billionaire Russian oil baron’s superyacht worth £140million and measuring 272ft in length is spotted moored off Dorset with those on board ‘self-isolating’ It is not known whether the owner, Alexander Dzhaparidze, is on board the yacht in Poole Quay, Dorset The 272ft vessel does have people on board and they are said … Read more

Thieves steal painting worth tens of thousands of pounds from train

Thieves steal painting worth tens of thousands of pounds after its owner left it on a train on the way home from getting it valued ‘Blue Harbour’ by Sir Terry Frost was created in 1954 in St Ives, Cornwall The painting’s owner is offering a substantial reward for its safe return If you have seen … Read more

Phoebe Burgess dashes to supermarket amid coronavirus wearing $4,700 worth of designer accessories

Phoebe Burgess makes a fashionable dash to the supermarket amid the coronavirus pandemic wearing $4,700 worth of designer accessories… after her mother broke silence on her split By Chloe-lee Longhetti For Daily Mail Australia Published: 12:21 GMT, 22 March 2020 | Updated: 12:46 GMT, 22 March 2020 Phoebe Burgess made a fashionable dash to the … Read more

Hotel minibars worth checking in for, from Manchester to the Maldives

The thought of spending £10 on a tiny beer, fizzy drink or packet of nuts from the hotel minibar might fill you with horror — but you’re not alone. Rich Hall, an American comedian, hit the nail on the head when he said: ‘A hotel minibar allows you to see what a can of Pepsi … Read more

A flower worth more than a house: The best-selling history of the tulip

NATURE THE TULIP by Anna Pavord (Bloomsbury £40, 467 pp) Who doesn’t love tulips? Colourful, flamboyant, easy to grow and cheap as chips, they are the perfect plant to brighten up a spring garden. Yet these cheery flowers have an unexpectedly dark and complex history. The tulip has had ‘more adventures than any Hollywood scriptwriter … Read more

Top US cancer hospital has a week’s worth of masks left as five staff members contract coronavirus

One of the top cancer hospitals in the US is running low on masks as eight patients and staff members are diagnosed with coronavirus. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City hast just one week’s supply of masks left, according to BuzzFeed News. Politicians and health experts have been asking the general public … Read more

ROB WAUGH: The Pixelbook Go is deliciously slim and worth the money

I’m finally being dragged out of my dinosaur-ish tendencies by Google’s Pixelbook Go. It’s deliciously slim, affordable and can do pretty much anything a ‘real’ PC can By Rob Waugh Event for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:02 GMT, 29 February 2020 | Updated: 23:54 GMT, 29 February 2020 Google Pixelbook Go From £629, store.google.com … Read more