Best bank accounts: Tesco Bank to axe in-credit interest from September

Checkout time for Tesco Bank customers? Popular current account now pays ZERO interest just a year after it slashed rate from 3% to 1% The bank currently pays 1% a year on balances of up to £3,000 – £30 a year  It already cut the rate once last June from 3%  It is the latest … Read more

How to make the most of your savings and find the best interest rates

It has not been the easiest few months for savers. Rates were already languishing before the coronavirus pandemic, but now they are racing quickly to to the bottom. Two Bank of England base rate cuts and an economic shutdown, along with people piling money into the safe haven of savings accounts, has resulted in the … Read more

Interest in campervans surges as lockdown eases

As Prime Minister Boris Johnson urges Britons to enjoy a ‘staycation’, interest in campervans surges, says RAY MASSEY By Ray Massey Motoring Editor For The Daily Mail Published: 22:08 BST, 26 June 2020 | Updated: 22:33 BST, 26 June 2020 Boris Johnson this week urged the nation to enjoy a ‘staycation’ in Britain, as part … Read more

Major providers set to pay just 0.01% interest with easy-access deals

The £6.8bn High Street savings robbery: All major providers set to pay just 0.01% interest with easy-access deals from next month By Sylvia Morris For The Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 23 June 2020 | Updated: 23:47 BST, 23 June 2020 Loyal savers are missing out on billions of pounds in interest by sticking with … Read more

Online savings platforms see continued interest from savers with big pots

Surge of wealthy savers turn to platforms to spread their cash and risk since coronavirus pandemic hit in March The likes of Hargreaves Lansdown and Raisin saw a surge of interest in March That was in the immediate aftermath of dramatic stock market falls Since then platforms have continued to see interest from savers as … Read more

Nigel Farage was allowed on to attend Trump rally under ‘national interest’ clause, officials reveal

Nigel Farage was stopped from boarding a flight to the US amid the coronavirus travel ban but was finally allowed to attend a rally for President Donald Trump under a ‘national interest’ clause, officials have revealed.  Mr Farage documented his journey to the States through the weekend, fanning speculation his friend the President helped him … Read more

Now it’s Rod: The Movie… but where WILL they find rock star Stewart’s love interest? 

Now it’s Rod: The Movie… but where WILL they find rock star Stewart’s love interest? A movie is set to be made about the life and career of rock star Rod Stewart  The untitled movie is being overseen by Rod’s long-time manager Arnold Stiefel Stewart, who has been married three times, will oversee the film … Read more

Savers abandon cash Isas as interest rates plunge 

Savers abandon cash Isas as interest rates plunge and pour money into easy-access accounts By Sylvia Morris For The Daily Mail Published: 22:03 BST, 9 June 2020 | Updated: 22:03 BST, 9 June 2020 Savers are fleeing cash Isas and pouring money into easy-access accounts instead. Around £1 billion was withdrawn from cash Isas between … Read more

‘He had no interest in becoming friends’: Suspect in Madeleine McCann’s disappearance was a loner

Former Neighbours of the German paedophile named as a suspect in Madeleine McCann‘s disappearance remember him as a loner who only occasionally stayed at a rented villa near Praia da Luz. The single-storey red-tiled villa where suspect Christian Brueckner lived is called Escola Vehla – the old school house – and is now owned by … Read more

RUTH SUNDERLAND: Negative interest rates do harm

RUTH SUNDERLAND: Negative interest rates are an insidious way of making savers finance Government’s debt pile, but economies that victimise the thrifty seldom thrive in the long run By Ruth Sunderland for the Daily Mail Published: 22:20 BST, 31 May 2020 | Updated: 22:29 BST, 31 May 2020 Savers, collectively, are losing billions of pounds … Read more