Is motorway electric charging about to become MUCH better? Transport Minister to enforce new rules to make them more reliable and accessible Currently one firm dominates charging points on UK motorways Transport Minister Rachel Maclean says this will change soon Anyone with a contactless card will be able to use the points By Grace Gausden … Read more
Tesco begins roll out of ‘soft plastic’ recycling points for bread bags, pet food pouches and crisp packets which are ignored by council collections Tesco has started putting recycling points into 171 stores in England and Wales Soft plastic is washed, sorted and processed then turned into new packaging Retailer said trial saw customers return over … Read more
Zaharie Ahmad Shah (pictured) was the pilot of the doomed flight DID THE PILOT HIJACK HIS OWN PLANE? Pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah planned mass murder because of personal problems, locking his co-pilot out of the cockpit, closing down all communications, depressurising the main cabin and then disabling the aircraft so that it continued flying on … Read more
The FTSE 100 dipped 0.5% today as traders fretted over interest rates rises and Rishi Sunak‘s Budget tax grab for big business. London‘s leading index was down by 34 points to 6,641 by mid-afternoon after US stocks plummeted on Wall Street yesterday. The FTSE closed 0.9% higher yesterday as market movers focused on the extension … Read more
BUDGET 2021 AT A GLANCE: The key points from Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s speech By Alex Sebastian For This Is Money Published: 12:40 GMT, 3 March 2021 | Updated: 12:40 GMT, 3 March 2021 Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak got to his feet in the House of Commons shortly after 12.30pm to deliver his crucial … Read more
Dancing On Ice: Faye Brookes opens musicals week with a bang as she wins a respectable 29 points… but fails to match her record breaking debut score after Mary Poppins inspired skate By Niomi Harris For Mailonline Published: 18:24 GMT, 31 January 2021 | Updated: 18:25 GMT, 31 January 2021 Week three of Dancing On … Read more
How smoking cannabis can affect your intelligence: Using the drug once a week for six months can knock off two IQ points and could have ‘significant effects’ on teens’ verbal skills Researchers analysed data on more than 6,000 teenagers to track cannabis use Of the cohort in the study 808 used cannabis at least weekly for … Read more
A better way of earning air miles from your everyday spending? Amex’s Nectar credit card now has one of the best rates The Sainsbury’s reward scheme announced a partnership with BA last week Shoppers can swap 400 Nectar points for 250 Avios air miles Amex’s Nectar card earns 2 points for every £1 spend – … Read more
Sainsbury’s shoppers can soon swap Nectar points for Avios air miles… but the rate is less generous than with previous Tesco scheme New tie-up means 400 Nectar points can be converted into 250 Avios points This works out at a conversion rate of 0.625 Avios per point This is less generous than the 2.4 Avios … Read more
Check those receipts! Hundreds of BP customers wrongly told they’d won £2,000 of points after blunder – but petrol giant WILL pay out Many BP customers received a receipt saying they’d won 400,000 points This equates to £2,000 – but BP said there was a third party error Now the firm has agreed to honour … Read more