Blackmore Bond falls into administration owing savers £45m

Another mini-bond in administration: Blackmore owes savers £45m after promising 9.9% returns on property projects By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 BST, 23 April 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 23 April 2020 Another savings firm offering so-called mini-bonds has tumbled into administration, spelling potential disaster for investors. Blackmore Bond, which owes savers … Read more

Apple will release COVID-19 tracking technology to governments weeks before previously planned

Apple says it will release COVID-19 contact tracing technology to governments weeks before the company had previously estimated The technology will be made available to developers on April 28   That date comes courtesy of Apple CEO Tim Cook Its technology will support the creation of COVID-19 contact tracing apps By James Pero For Dailymail.com Published: 23:53 BST, 23 … Read more

Sophie Monk’s petty snub to her Bardot bandmates revealed

Sophie Monk clearly has a chip on her shoulder about her former pop career. The Love Island host, 40, apparently blocked her old Bardot bandmate Tiffani Wood on Instagram after the group began discussing a possible 20-year reunion. Sophie is also reportedly deleting references to Bardot from her social media page. Sophie Monk’s petty snub to … Read more

Big Night In: Dua Lipa, Rita Ora and Ellie Goulding lead musical performances

The greatest names on the UK music scene joined forces for BBC‘s fundraiser Big Night In on Thursday, in support of the battle against the coronavirus pandemic.  Dua Lipa led the singers in delivering a passionate performance of Foo Fighters’ 2003 classic Times Like These as part of Radio 1’s biggest ever Live Lounge with the … Read more

The home lives of the great and good can be just as unruly

BOOK OF THE WEEK LIVES OF HOUSES    editors: Kate Kennedy and Hermione Lee (Princeton £20, 304 pp) Since mid-March, most of us have been spending more time at home than ever before. Our dwellings have become half sanctuary, half prison; however much we are longing to leave, there is the ever-present fear that setting foot … Read more

Adorable black and white photograph of Prince Charles with Prince Louis was taken by Kate Middleton 

Revealed: Adorable black and white photograph ‘His Royal Hugness’ Prince Charles released to mark grandson Prince Louis’s second birthday was taken by Kate Middleton By Rebecca English for the Daily Mail Published: 23:23 BST, 23 April 2020 | Updated: 23:50 BST, 23 April 2020 Ever the doting grandfather, Prince Charles gives little Prince Louis a … Read more

Banks under pressure to ramp up their coronavirus rescue lending

Banks under pressure to ramp up their coronavirus rescue lending with just £2.8bn doled out to small firms so far By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 23 April 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 23 April 2020 Banks are under pressure to ramp up their coronavirus rescue lending as the latest figures … Read more

Elle Fanning gives the FINGER on the poster for Hulu’s fictionalized biopic on Catherine the Great

Elle Fanning gives the FINGER on the poster for Hulu’s highly-fictionalized biopic on Catherine the Great By Cassie Carpenter For Dailymail.com Published: 23:43 BST, 23 April 2020 | Updated: 23:43 BST, 23 April 2020 SAG Award nominee Elle Fanning gave the middle finger on the poster for Hulu’s 10-episode satirical comedy miniseries on Catherine the … Read more

JANET STREET-PORTER: Save even more lives from cancer than the coronavirus is killing

Covid-19 is a plague affecting millions of people. In the UK, everyone knows or knows of someone who has died and our lives have dramatically changed for the foreseeable future. This dreadful crisis has brought out the best in the British – while Americans angrily demonstrate for their right to get infected because many value … Read more