Can I make the DVLA an offer for a personalised number plate?

I registered interest in six personalised number plates nearly two years ago but they still haven’t been auctioned off: Can I make the DVLA an offer? By Ed Magnus For Thisismoney.co.uk Published: 07:46 BST, 30 April 2021 | Updated: 07:46 BST, 30 April 2021 In summer 2019, I registered interest in half a dozen personalised … Read more

Number of family homes coming up for sale falls to five-year low

The number of three and four-bedroom homes coming up for sale has dropped to a five-year low, as buyers rush to snap up properties with more space, new data shows. Annually, listings of four-bedroom homes have slumped 58 per cent in Scotland, 44 per cent in the South, 42 per cent in the North West … Read more

Number of homes with a landline has fallen by 4m in last 20 years

The number of households with a landline has fallen by four million since 2000, new research has revealed. There are now around 22million connections in the UK, down 15 per cent from its peak at the turn of the century when 95 per cent of homes had one, according to data from Uswitch. Some 1.41million … Read more

Record number of firms on the brink in the first quarter of the year

Record number of firms on the brink in the first quarter of the year, under pandemic pressure By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 BST, 21 April 2021 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 21 April 2021 In the third lockdown, 93,000 firms’ finances weakened to the point of ‘significant financial distress’, according to Begbies … Read more

The areas in Britain with the highest number of car insurance accident claims

Revealed: Areas with the highest rate of car insurance accident claims – including towns where one in five drivers have recently had a prang Sutton and Hemel Hempstead are home to drivers with most accidents Inverness was found to have the least accidents Rural locations tend to have a lower overall rate of main driver … Read more

Number of shoppers was 15% down compared to 2019 – but still four times busier than last month 

As high streets across the UK came back to life yesterday, footfall failed to reach pre-pandemic levels, the latest figures have revealed.  The data shows total customer footfall on the day non-essential retail reopened in England was down 15 per cent on two years ago. However that is a significant improvement on March, when total … Read more

Britain records biggest number of second Covid-19 jabs in a day as 450,000 are administered

Britain has recorded a record number of second doses of Covid-19 vaccine in a single day, with the total number of jabs rising to more than 39million in the country. Government data up to Friday shows the total number who have received at least one dose is now 39,001,554 in the UK. Of those 32,010,244 … Read more

Surge in ‘pothead’ over-60s trying to kick habit as number receiving NHS treatment nearly doubles

Surge in ‘pothead’ over-60s trying to kick the habit as number receiving NHS treatment for cannabis addiction more than doubles in eight years 1,007 in over 60 age group had NHS treatment for cannabis addiction in 2020 The number has more than doubled in eight years when the number was 450 Experts fear many may … Read more

Covid-19 UK: Number of Britons getting tell-tale coronavirus symptoms has HALVED in a week

The number of Britons getting tell-tale Covid symptoms has more than halved in a week, as the UK continues to bounce back from the depths of the pandemic in winter. The Covid Symptom Study, run by ZOE and King’s College London, estimated there were around 1,924 people becoming ill every day from March 20 to April … Read more