7 h. ago Warning to Nationwide, Lloyds, NatWest and Santander customers with less than £5,000 in accounts

Millions live hand to mouth every month and have little, if any, savings

Economics

38 h. ago Savers born between these years could be due over £2,000 from HMRC account

Thousands may have forgotten about their long-term savings account, but now HMRC is warning all parents to take action and help their child cash in on their trust fund

Economics

6 d. ago Universal Credit claimants with just £6,000 could face bank account checks

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is aiming to reduce the UK welfare bill by £5 billion by 2030

Economics

6 d. ago DWP to trigger bank account checks for savers with more than £6,000

People who claim Universal Credit have been told the Department for Work and Pensions is preparing to trigger bank account checks

Economics

7 d. ago Nationwide, NatWest, Santander and Lloyds customers urged to make £250 move

Brits banking with high-street lenders are being urged to 'boost' their balance by up to £250 by potentially moving their money into a savings account with a higher interest rate

Economics

8 d. ago How Nationwide, Lloyds, NatWest and Santander customers can claim £250

The new tax year started on April 6, and savings experts have urged households to make the most of their money by moving it out of low interest rate accounts

Economics

1 week ago Santander making huge change to bank accounts and it affects balances under £25,000

Currently, the Santander Edge Up account package - which costs £5 per month - gets a 3% interest rate on cash held in the account. However, this will change this month

Economics

2 w. ago Chelsea received payment from unauthorised ticket firm owned by Todd Boehly

Vivid Seats, which is considered an unauthorised seller by the Premier League and is part-owned by Todd Boehly, made a payment of £93,000 to Chelsea last year according to the club's accounts

Economics

2 w. ago Tenerife thieves stole my phone... and then raided £85,000 from my Revolut account

I naively thought criminals would want the device rather than what was on it. How wrong I was.

Economics

2 w. ago Mum left hospitalised and £5,000 out of pocket after replying to job ad online

Single mum Mutmainnah Abubakar arrived in Edinburgh last year with £5,000 in savings, but her accounts were picked clean by scammers posing as an employer in a few short days

Economics

3 w. ago Myanmar earthquake death toll soars past 1,600 as searches to find survivors in the wreckage turn increasingly desperate

More than 1,600 people have died and another 3,400 injured after a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar on Friday, with more than 100 people still missing.

Events

3 w. ago Myanmar earthquake death toll jumps above 1,000 with many still not accounted for as desperate families still hold out hope that loved ones will be found alive

More than 1,000 people have died and another 2,000 injured after a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar on Friday, with at least 30 people still missing.

Society

3 w. ago 'Vulnerable' Scots struggling to open bank accounts with 160,000 going without

Citizens Advice Scotland says too many high street banks are failing to offer "readily accessible" no-frills accounts.

Economics

3 w. ago I live in Britain's cleanest house... thanks to my OCD: Woman reveals her intense daily routine (and it's not for the faint

Daf, who posts her cleaning tips to her TikTok account @cleanwithdaf has left her 117,000 follower baffled and impressed by the amount of cleaning she gets up to every day.

Society

3 w. ago Biodiversity loss in all species and every ecosystem linked to humans – report

Sweeping synthesis of 2,000 global studies leaves no doubt about scale of problem and role of humans, say expertsHumans are driving biodiversity loss among all species across the planet, according to a synthesis of more than 2,000 studies.The exhaustive global analysis leaves no doubt about the devastating impact humans are having on Earth, according to researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag) and the University of Zurich. The study – which accounted for nearly 100,000 sites across all continents – found that human activities had resulted in “unprecedented effects on biodiversity”, according to the paper, published in Nature. Continue reading...

Politics

3 w. ago ‘The field of human ancestry is rife with racism’: pioneering project to build cancer database in Africa

Less than 2% of human genomes analysed so far have been those of Africans. Yemaachi Biotech’s Africa Cancer Atlas aims to fill the research gapWhen Yaw Bediako lost his father to liver cancer, it set the Ghanaian immunologist on a journey to know more about the disease. He quickly realised the burden of cancer in Africa was much greater than he had thought – accounting for about 700,000 deaths every year – and that very few scientific papers about the disease on the continent were available.“I realised that cancer is this huge disease in Africa that doesn’t really get much research attention,” he says. “But it’s not just an African problem, it’s global It stands out as a problem that does not distinguish between geographies or socioeconomic class.” Continue reading...

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