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

Great British September Clean group urge visitors not to leave national park strewn with rubbish

Q&A by Xantha Leatham  What is the Great British September Clean? The Great British September Clean is, in fact, the postponed Great British Spring Clean, which had to be mothballed in March when the country went into lockdown. How can I get involved? Anyone who wants to take part can do so by registering via … Read more

Ofsted will resume school visits in September to reassure parents it is safe for children to return

Ofsted will resume school visits in September to ‘reassure’ parents it is safe for children to return – but will NOT judge teachers unless there is ‘serious concern’ Schools are preparing to reopen with social distancing measures in September Some schools have been closed for six months due to the COVID-19 pandemic Ofsted will visit … Read more

Days Of Our Lives plans to resume filming in September

Days Of Our Lives ‘plans to resume filming in September’… as other soap operas prepare to shoot amid coronavirus crisis By Brian Marks For Dailymail.com Published: 17:23 BST, 4 July 2020 | Updated: 17:23 BST, 4 July 2020 Days Of Our Lives will return to filming on September 1. The soap opera’s cast was informed … Read more

Ministers’ plan to get ALL children back in class in September

Whole year groups at secondary school will form ‘bubbles’ in a massive effort to get all children back in education from September, it was revealed today. Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said the ‘unprecedented disruption’ must end as he unveiled plans for a full return from the beginning of the academic year, with staggered start times and … Read more

Boris Johnson says he WILL make it compulsory for parents to send children to school in September

Boris Johnson says parents will be forced by law to send their children back to school in September, amid a growing outcry over the damage being done to youngsters’ life chances by the prolonged absence from classrooms. The Prime Minister – stung by criticism of the slow and partial resumption of teaching – admitted that … Read more

Limit of 15 children per class will rise to more than 30 in plan to get lessons running in September

The 15-child limit on class sizes is to be more than doubled under plans to get all pupils back to school in September, with school buildings to be exempt from social distancing rules. Proposals being finalised by the Education Secretary Gavin Williamson will continue the ‘bubble’ system that has allowed some primary classes to start up … Read more

‘100,000 more people will die from coronavirus in US before September’

Dr. Ashish Jha, Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, is pictured during a television interview with MSNBC on 17 March. Jha estimates another 100,000 people will die from coronavirus by September One hundred thousand more Americans will die from coronavirus by September, doubling the country’s current death toll, a Harvard expert has predicted.   Dr. … Read more

Dominic Raab ‘did not know about Harry Dunn case until after Anne Sacoolas left the UK in September’

Dominic Raab was unaware of Harry Dunn’s death until after prime suspect Anne Sacoolas had fled the UK, the teenager’s family have been told.  Mr Dunn, 19, was driving his motorcycle on 27 August last year when he collided with a car in the opposite direction. Ms Sacoolas, 42, is the main suspect involved and was charged … Read more

Millions of children might not be able to go back to school in SEPTEMBER

Ministers are facing fury today after it emerged millions of children might not be able to go back to school full-time in September – despite zoos and drive-in cinemas opening from Monday.   Education Secretary Gavin Williamson admitted yesterday that the ‘ambition’ of getting all primary age children back in class for a month before the … Read more