Find out what’s happening with mortgage rates today and calculate monthly repayments across a range of different rates and deals. 24 May: Society Unveils Fee-Free First-Time Buyer Deal Coventry building society is cutting selected fixed rates for residential purchase and remortgage by up to 0.28 percentage points, continuing the trend set by other major lenders...
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The 20 best grand British seaside hotels
Once upon a time, there was nowhere so redolent with glamour as a Great British seaside hotel in the summer season and – for a while – the Grand Hotel in Scarborough led the pack. The Grand opened in 1867 and was reputedly Europe’s largest hotel. Yet recently, one mayoral candidate branded it “the shame...
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‘Have a beer by the pier’: 10 readers choose their favourite UK seaside town
Sundowners with a view, North Yorkshire Saltburn-by-the-Sea boasts a magnificent beach and plentiful ice-cream, coffee bars and a burgeoning arts scene. Among the highlights has to be a stroll along the Grade II-listed pier and hopefully a ride down the UK’s oldest water-balanced cliff tramway (still closed at time of writing after a fire in...
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Mortgage News: TSB Joins Rate-Cutters But Barclays Bucks Trend With Increases
Find out what’s happening with mortgage rates today and calculate monthly repayments across a range of different rates and deals. 23 May: Attitudes Vary To News Of Inflation Dropping To 2.3% TSB is cutting fixed rate mortgage deals by up to 0.4 percentage points, effective tomorrow (Friday), writes Jo Thornhill. The bank will reduce rates...
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Meet the rail-mad millionaire with Britain’s only privately owned train
British businessman Jeremy Hosking is one such man. His train, The Chairman’s Set, is comprised of repurposed former Caledonian Sleeper coaches – in classic 1950s British Rail “blood and custard” livery – and is, officially, Britain’s only privately owned train (the Royal Family have one, of course, but as theirs is owned by DB Cargo,...
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UK Bank Holiday weekend travel: all the disruption on motorways and train services
Bank holidays are perfect for a quick staycation, camping trip or a long overdue visit to your parents. But when almost everyone in the country is off work on the exact same days, it’s bound to cause some queues. And, apparently, this year’s late May Bank Holiday is set to be the busiest on UK roads in years. ...
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UK Car Insurance Statistics 2024
Table of Contents Show more Show less A car insurance policy offers financial protection against the risks to which a driver is exposed, namely being involved in an accident with another vehicle, damaging another person’s property, accidentally damaging his or her own vehicle, and being the victim of theft. Policies cover medical costs and other...
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The victims of Jack the Ripper deserve better than London’s lurid tours
Because his identity is unknown, each successive generation has made of him whatever monster they will: a Jack of all trades. For contemporaries, he was a physical embodiment of the sordidness, deprivation and poverty of the Victorian East End. By the 1960s, he seems to have become more aristocratic, a psychopath in a top hat...
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The best cities for book lovers in the British Isles
Home to the UK’s National Centre of Writing, Norwich is renowned as a city of firsts. Revelations of Divine Love, written by Julian of Norwich in 1395, was the first book written by a woman in English. The first poem in blank verse was written here by Henry Howard in the 16th century. The first...
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Britain’s best white-sand beaches
Aquamarine waters, bone-white sands, bleached driftwood… the stuff of holiday brochures and Instagram posts, and designed to lure us to foreign and exotic idylls. But, hang on; why go abroad? Look closer to home. Britain’s coastline may not offer the bath-warm temperatures and languid palm trees of, say, the Caribbean, but it has some startling...
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Win a luxury riverside stay for two in Suffolk
The historic Riverside House Hotel is ideally located overlooking the River Lark near the delightful market town of Mildenhall, Suffolk, and now you could win a 3-night B&B break for two there with dinner on one evening and a welcome bottle of Prosecco in your room. Guests are invited to enjoy the wonderful riverside gardens,...
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Once utterly miserable, Margate is now a magnet for Hollywood actors
But cheap package holidays abroad and a lack of investment at home kickstarted the town’s demise. Great storms damaged the lido, jetty and bathing pavilions, hotels were sold off and shops boarded up. I grew up in the area in the 1980s and 1990s and Margate – particularly its old town – was utterly miserable....