More than 5.5m workers cut or stop their pension contributions due to impact of coronavirus and lockdown By Rachel Rickard Straus, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:52 GMT, 7 November 2020 | Updated: 21:52 GMT, 7 November 2020 More than 5.5million workers have cut or completely stopped their pension contributions due to the impact of … Read more
The Royal British Legion fears millions of pounds in Poppy Appeal donations could be lost across the UK because volunteers cannot do face-to-face collections due to the Covid pandemic. Charles Byrne, director-general of the charity, said lockdown restrictions mean that for the first time in the organisation’s 99-year history, in-person fundraising has been cancelled on the … Read more
Rishi Sunak‘s U-turn on furlough is a sign lockdown might last a ‘lot longer’ than ministers are admitting, experts warned today. The respected IFS think-tank delivered a withering verdict on the extraordinary shift as it said leaving millions of workers in limbo for a year could slow the economic recovery. In a change that could … Read more
Virgin Media has rolled out its gigabit service to more areas across the UK today, including London and Northern Ireland. The hyper-fast broadband switch-on will serve nearly three million extra households, with speeds 17 times faster than the national average of 1,104Mbps. This means households will now be able to download 4K films near instantaneously … Read more
America is on a knife edge tonight as millions cast their ballots on the most divisive President in modern history. Voters have been lining up from 5.30am to have their say in the race between Donald Trump and his rival for the White House, Joe Biden. A polarised and exhausted country, riven by racial tensions … Read more
America (and the world) holds its breath: Millions vote to deliver their verdict on the most divisive ever US President Voters lined up from 5.30am to have say in race between Donald Trump and his White House rival Joe Biden Mr Biden, 77, entered Election Day as favourite while Mr Trump, played catch-up in some … Read more
Some 1,900 women so far are confirmed to have lost out on state pension in a scandal uncovered by This is Money. Blunders were detected in one in four of the 7,200 cases processed to date by a 37-strong team at the Department for Work and Pensions, according to figures disclosed by its top official. … Read more
Commuter towns including Halifax, Dudley and Reading have become ‘home working hubs’ as millions of UK workers stay away from the office, TalkTalk broadband data reveals TalkTalk data from January to August reveals the increase in internet usage Collated upload and download data and created a percentage change figure Reveals lockdown and shift to remote working … Read more
Millions of pounds worth of plastic supermarket trays are being stolen by organised crime gangs and secretly recycled at firms across the UK. Crooks are looting the food baskets from shops and stores and delivering them to companies who ‘turn a blind eye’ to their origin, an investigation has revealed. Once broken down by crooked … Read more
Scammers have used the chaos of the coronavirus pandemic to pose as everything from airlines, to mobile phone providers and streaming services and steal millions of pounds from victims in impersonation scams. Fraudsters have continued to cold-call victims stuck at home pretending to be their bank or the police to convince them that their money … Read more