Green mortgages: Nationwide latest lender to offer cashback

Homebuyers are increasingly being incentivised to purchase energy efficient properties by some mortgage lenders via cashback offers. Nationwide Building Society has joined NatWest and a number of others in offering cashback and incentives to those buying a property with a high energy efficiency ratings. Nationwide’s ‘green reward’ is offering homebuyers £500 cashback when purchasing a … Read more

Cash savings websites offer huge rates boost

Cash savings websites paying four times the best rates on offer from banks and building societies By Sylvia Morris For The Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 20 April 2021 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 20 April 2021 Cash savings websites offer exclusive deals that pay four times the best rates on offer with banks and building … Read more

Electric car chargers offer 9% return: Green return or high risk bond?

Investment offer: The 50 new chargers funded by the green bond will be operated under the Be.EV brand Investors are being offered a five-year ‘green bond’ paying a 9 per cent annual return to fund a string of electric vehicle chargers across Greater Manchester. Operating firm Iduna plans to add 50 new chargers to the … Read more

EastEnders’ Shona McGarty ‘plans to do Strictly Come Dancing despite turning down the offer before’

EastEnders star Shona McGarty ‘plans to do Strictly Come Dancing after co-star Maisie Smith’s success – despite turning down the offer before’ By Natasha Hooper For Mailonline Published: 19:58 BST, 13 April 2021 | Updated: 20:25 BST, 13 April 2021 EastEnders‘ Shona McGarty has revealed her hopes to star on Strictly Come Dancing following the … Read more

The Matrix’s Carrie-Anne Moss says she got an offer to play a grandmother at 40

Carrie-Anne Moss sat down with her friend Justine Bateman earlier this month to moderate a discussion about aging and the actress and filmmaker’s newest book Face: One Square Foot Of Skin. During their discussing at New York City‘s 92nd Street Y, Moss admitted that she started being offered roles that were much too old for … Read more

Vaccine squads to go door-to-door to offer covid jabs to ethnic-minority families amid low uptake

Vaccine squads will go door-to-door to offer Covid-19 jabs to ethnic-minority families in large households amid low uptake after pilot inoculated hundreds Ministers plan to roll out the scheme to increase covid vaccination uptake A successful pilot targeting multi-generation homes in Luton and Bradford has resulted in hundreds of adults being vaccinated in the past … Read more

Australian celebrities flock to offer condolences to Russell Crowe after father John’s death

Several Australian celebrities have offered their condolences to Russell Crowe following the death of his 85-year-old father John Alexander Crowe.   The Hollywood actor, 56, announced the tragic news on Tuesday via Twitter.  Russell’s tribute to his late father prompted an outpouring of emotion, with a host of radio stars, TV personalities, comedians, and chefs paying tribute to … Read more

Mia Fevola, 21, rejected an offer to appear on Seven’s SAS Australia

Brendan Fevola has revealed his stepdaughter Mia rejected an offer to appear on Channel Seven’s SAS Australia. The former AFL star-turned-radio host, 40, revealed during an interview with SAS Chief Instructor Ant Middleton on Tuesday that Mia, 21, had turned down the role.  He explained on Fox FM Melbourne‘s Fifi, Fev & Nick show: ‘My daughter was asked to go on … Read more

Mortgage prisoners: Will a law change finally offer an escape?

This is Money spoke to three mortgage prisoners about the impact it has had on their lives. Some of them are on temporary lower rates, thanks to Covid-19 – although it is unclear when this temporary respite ends.  Claire Johnson, 57, from Sheffield: Highest interest rate paid 5.4%  Claire Johnson, pictured with her nephew, says … Read more

Dublin ‘not aware of’ any offer from UK to share vaccines

The UK could send millions of coronavirus vaccines to Ireland after Easter in a ‘poke in the eye’ to the EU, it was claimed today. Some 3.7million doses could be handed to the Republic amid concerns that its slow rollout could prevent lockdown being eased in Northern Ireland. Cabinet ministers are said to view the … Read more