2 h. ago This high street bank will pay you £200 to open a new current account

A major bank is about to launch a new current account switching bonus, allowing savers to earn £200 for moving their current account.

Economics

5 h. ago Major high street bank launches new £200 cash offer to switch your current account

Lloyds want your cash and are offering incentives to attract new customers

Economics

50 h. ago Major UK bank giving away cash prizes up to £10,000 to customers

Customers will be automatically entered into the Dream Fund prize draw if they deposit £5,000 into their personal current account or savings account before September 30

Economics

59 h. ago Failure to tackle dependence on food banks in UK driving public discontent

One in six households went hungry last year, says Trussell, with Britain facing ‘new normal’ of severe hardshipDowning Street’s failure to tackle child poverty and reduce food bank use is helping to drive public discontent with falling living standards and fuelling a desire for political alternatives, the UK’s biggest charity food provider has warned.Trussell said one in six UK households went hungry last year and, without ambitious policies to tackle deepening poverty, Britain faces the prospect of locking in a “new normal” of increasingly severe hardship across society. Continue reading...

Events

68 h. ago Street robber brutally attacked stranger and took his bank card to withdraw £400

Malakyi Thompson, 23, punched his victim who was treated for facial injuries, including a cut to his face, grazes and bruises to his nose as well as two chipped teeth

Economics

4 d. ago Major high street bank closes 4 more branches this week – see full list of locations

NatWest is set to close four more branches this week as part of its plan to axe 106 branches by the end of 2025. The bank has already closed 53 branches in January 2025

Politics

4 d. ago Major high street bank closing four branches in these locations this week

NatWest announced in June that it would be closing a further 53 branches, with four set to close in September. Here's the full list of branches that will be closing this month

Politics

8 d. ago High street bank cuts opening hours at one Scottish branch and 40 in UK

The bank has confirmed big changes to walk-in branches while other locations will shut for an extra day each week.

Politics

1 week ago Starmer seeks to wrest back policy control from Treasury in No 10 shake

Prime minister brings in chancellor’s deputy and former Bank of England chief to newly created senior roles• Downing Street shake-up: who’s in and who’s out at No 10Keir Starmer has attempted to wrest back control of economic policy from the Treasury by bolstering his No 10 team, bringing in the chancellor’s deputy and a former Bank of England chief to senior roles.Ahead of what is likely to be a tumultuous autumn for the government, he created two new roles with Darren Jones put in charge of day-to-day delivery and Minouche Shafik appointed the prime minister’s chief economic adviser. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago FTSE 100 Live 29 August: Tax raid fears hit banking shares, US inflation data in focus

FTSE 100 banking stocks are under pressure after a think tank urged Rachel Reeves to consider tax raid on major firms such as Barclays, Lloyds and NatWest.

Economics

2 w. ago FTSE 100 Live 29 August: Banking stocks hit by levy fears, US inflation data in focus

Banking stocks are under pressure after a think tank urged Rachel Reeves to consider hiking a windfall tax on major firms such as Barclays, Lloyds and NatWest.

Economics

2 w. ago FTSE 100 Live 29 August: Call for bank levy, US inflation data in focus

Stock market sentiment will be tested later when figures in the US show the impact of tariffs on the prices of goods and services.

Economics

2 w. ago High street bank with more than 2.5m customers cutting opening hours

The Co-operative Bank has confirmed that some of its walk-in branches will lose up to three hours of daily operating time, with more than a dozen locations to shut for an extra day each week

Economics

2 w. ago Trains replace rail replacement buses in bank holiday weekend first from Birmingham New Street to International

Exclusive: Despite Network Rail warning of line closure, trains are running on the key intercity route

Politics

3 w. ago Restaurant owner stabbed to death inside Lloyd's as he took earnings to the bank

Gurvinder Singh Johal died in a stabbing at Lloyds Bank in St Peter’s Street, Derby, on May 6. Haybe Cabdiraxmaan Nur appeared at Derby Crown Court today and admitted murder

Events

3 w. ago Notting Hill Carnival 2025: Food, travel, sound systems and everything you need to know for the festival

The world’s second-largest street festival returns this bank holiday weekend as London welcomes the 58th edition of Notting Hill Carnival. Its happening comes as a relief: there had been murmurs of cancellation; rumours of ticketing when it has always been free to attend. Organisers warned about the carnival’s future. In a letter leaked to the BBC, chair Ian Comfort requested “urgent funding” from the Government. He said it was “essential to safeguarding the future and public safety of this iconic event”. A response is said to be on its way.

Transport

3 w. ago Lloyds Bank offering 6.25% interest on savings for certain customers

The high street bank is keeping competition fresh in the savings markets as others cut interest rates in the wake of the Bank of England base rate drop

Economics

4 w. ago Keir Starmer meets with Volodymyr Zelensky in Downing Street amid claims US and Russia are planning 'West Bank

The Prime Minister and Mr Zelensky met in No10 as both leaders brace themselves for the outcome of the US President's talks with the Russian leader.

Politics