Get ready for the £50BILLION post-pandemic spending splurge

Get ready for the £50BILLION post-pandemic spending splurge: Britons put holidays and eating at at top of list as they plan to blow their lockdown savings Survey revealed foreign holidays will be most popular post-pandemic purchase  Study found 46 per cent of households increased their savings this past year £50billion of extra £192billion in savings is … Read more

How to close the gender gaps on earning saving and spending

For more than a decade I’ve spent my life thinking and writing about money. As a financial journalist, I’ve written hundreds of columns on the City, the stock market, the super-rich, pension funds and family budgets. I don’t think money buys you happiness but I know it gives you freedom. Having enough money gives you … Read more

Shoppers spending more online for Mother’s Day this year

Shoppers spending more online for Mother’s Day this year as pubs and restaurants remain closed By Alex Lawson, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 GMT, 13 March 2021 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 13 March 2021 Shoppers are spending more online for Mother’s Day this year as pubs and restaurants remain closed, figures indicate.  Related retail … Read more

Teenage boys break into closed theme park and are spotted on CCTV spending hours enjoying the rides 

Teenage boys break into closed theme park and are spotted on CCTV spending two hours enjoying the rides Two teenagers broke into a closed theme park near Caernarfon, North Wales  The teenagers were filmed on CCTV as they ran up and down a sledge slide  The pair are believed to have caused damage to the … Read more

Britain will ditch its lockdown savings habit as it goes on £45bn spending spree

British households could be set to save less money than they did before the pandemic over the next five years as the country embarks on a £45billion spending spree, it has been forecast. Despite savers salting away a record £143.5billion since the start of the first lockdown last March, the percentage of disposable income saved … Read more

China’s top general calls for increased military spending for ‘Thucydides trap’ war with US 

China’s top general calls for increased military spending to prepare for ‘Thucydides trap’ that will force a war with US General Xu Qilian said the world’s biggest military needs modernising for war The Thucydides Trap refers to the likelihood of war between two global powers Relations are tense between the US and China after Donald … Read more

Catherine Zeta-Jones, 51, reveals she has been spending time with Michael Douglas’ grandson

Hollywood icon Catherine Zeta-Jones shared how it has been going for her under lockdown with her family. The 51-year-old Zorro actress said she has had her 76-year-old husband Michael Douglas by her side as well as their children Dylan, 20, and Carys, 17. And the Oscar-winning Chicago star also told Extra on Wednesday that she … Read more

Jake Edwards cryptically posted in January he was ‘spending a lot of time alone’

Jake Edwards’ relationship with ‘wife’ Rebecca Zemek took a dramatic turn during Married At First Sight’s first dinner party on Monday night.  And a cryptic post made by former AFL footballer Jake back in January hinted that the reality TV couple’s relationship may be over. In the post, obtained by Daily Mail Australia, Jake, 32, … Read more

David Harbour, 45, is stateside again after spending four months in the UK with new wife Lily Allen

Stranger Things star David Harbour, 45, is stateside again after spending four months in the UK with new wife Lily Allen By Caitlyn Becker For Dailymail.com Published: 19:00 GMT, 1 March 2021 | Updated: 19:00 GMT, 1 March 2021 After spending the last four months enjoying the newlywed life with wife Lily Allen, actor David … Read more

Andrew Lloyd Webber starts Cinderella rehearsals after spending £1m a month to keep theatres afloat

Behind the deserted streets of London‘s Theatreland, with its dog-eared publicity posters and abandoned box offices, life is finally stirring at the Gillian Lynne Theatre. Mostly, it has to be said, in the diminutive form of Andrew Lloyd Webber, who springs on to the stage with the bounce (and knees) of a man half his … Read more