Taxpayers will pay the cost of Bounce Back loans: £24bn lent over Covid sparks bad debt fears By James Salmon for the Daily Mail Published: 23:55 BST, 9 June 2020 | Updated: 23:56 BST, 9 June 2020 The extraordinary take-up of Bounce Back loans will result in ‘absolutely massive bad debts’ for taxpayers, a think-tank … Read more
Plain-clothed police are sent out on bikes with cameras to record unsuspecting motorists driving badly Plain-clothed officers use £500 cameras to catch out bad drivers in Somerset Police say it will be ‘sow the seeds’ of doubt in drivers so they take greater care Footage taken by cycling officers will be shared on social media, … Read more
Hollyoaks and Coronation Street star Nikki Sanderson has revealed she had a ‘very bad’ battle with depression in her 20s. The actress, 36, said she struggled for years during her time between the two soaps. The Blackpool-born star joined Coronation Street when she was just 15 and played Candice Stowe for six years until she left … Read more
A Breaking Bad-style police officer who masterminded a drugs racket has been given an extra year in jail for a pirate TV set-top box scam that cost pay channels up to £5million. PC Daniel Aimson, 39, used his scam to live a lavish lifestyle with wife Rachel, 31, including eating £500 meals in Michelin star … Read more
Negative things will inevitably come my way but i’m responsible for my reactions Bestselling author Adele Parks used to think other people’s bad moods were her problem, or even somehow her fault. Then she had a lightbulb moment… Ever since I was young, I’ve felt responsible for cheering people up when they’re down. I was … Read more
Poor weather has threatened the Space X launch on Wednesday which is set to send two American astronauts to the International Space Station in the first crewed mission from US soil in nine years. The scheduled takeoff has only a 40 per cent chance of liftoff due to a thick cloud cover and the potential … Read more
There is a terrific scene at the movie The Big Short, based on Michael Lewis’s brilliant book on the financial crisis, where the director Adam McKay imagines a different ending. Instead of the Wall Street bankers who caused the crash escaping to their luxury Florida villas and yachts, the FBI arrives on the trading floors … Read more
Are YOU guilty? People reveal the bad behavior that indicates someone ‘wasn’t raised right’ – from mistreating restaurant servers to lying Reddit user sovereinete asked people to name the top indicators someone ‘wasn’t raised right,’ and more than 18,000 people commented on the thread Many people noted that leaving trash, mistreating restaurant servers, and having poor … Read more
Taxpayers set to be saddled with £10bn of bad emergency loans as 43% of borrowers say they do not expect to be able to pay them back By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 BST, 21 May 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 21 May 2020 Taxpayers could be saddled with bad loans worth … Read more
Most of us have been wearing face masks for several weeks to help prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus as the pandemic rages on. But social media has been exploding with claims that masks reduce the intake of oxygen, forcing people to breathe in high levels of their own carbon dioxide. People claim they feel … Read more