A Lifetime Isa could give your savings a boost but beware the traps 

The tax-free account that pays extra £1,000 every year: A Lifetime Isa could give your home or retirement savings a boost but beware the traps By Sylvia Morris For The Daily Mail Published: 10:45 GMT, 18 March 2021 | Updated: 12:24 GMT, 18 March 2021 If you are saving for your first home or retirement, … Read more

Behavioural investing traps to avoid when share picking and trading

The ruckus over GameStop offered some new lessons for investors, including the phenomenon of an ‘angry’ bubble rather than one motivated by simple greed. The rise of free trading apps and the role of social media communities were also critical to understanding the staggering rise and fall in the share price of an obscure games … Read more

Pollution: Roadside ‘supershrub’ traps fuel emissions, experts say 

Is this a solution to traffic pollution? ‘Supershrub’ at the roadside can trap fuel emissions, experts say The Cotoneaster plant was found to absorb more pollution than similar shrubs  It was found by researchers to be 20 per cent more effective at soaking up traffic fume particles than plants such as hawthorn and western red cedar … Read more

Maternity ward death traps in Maduro’s socialist Venezuela as thousands of doctors flee

Maternity ward death traps, with dead children piled on top of each other and blood-soaked corridors, are the new norm in Nicolas Maduro’s socialist Venezuela.  Seven years of back-to-back recession and the highest inflation in the world has destroyed the country’s healthcare system, with a critical shortage of doctors and nursing personnel, surgical equipment and … Read more

Destructive tornado traps people in Alabama as major snowstorm blankets Midwest

A destructive tornado has hit Alabama, trapping people in their homes, damaging buildings and downing trees – while a major winter storm blanketed parts of the Midwest.  The tornado hit in Fultondale about 10.30pm, with Jefferson County under a watch until 1am. It caused significant damage and multiple people were trapped in buildings and cars, … Read more

12 missing as avalanche traps tourists at Russian ski resort

Terrifying moment avalanche crashes down on tourists – one carrying a child to safety – to leave 12 buried under the snow at Russian ski resort The avalanche hit the ski resort on Mount Mussa-Achitara in Dombay, Russia  More than 170 rescuers are desperately seeking to find tourists who were buried Footage showed adult on skis … Read more

Brexit is not over and Britain must not ‘fall into traps’, David Davis warns  

Brexit is not over and Britain must not ‘fall into traps’, David Davis warns David Davis said there were ‘issues’ with Northern Ireland, fishing and Gibraltar He said giving MPs one day to approve the deal was ‘frankly not enough’  But the former Brexit secretary said the deal secured by Boris Johnson was ‘much better than … Read more

Brexit is not over and Britain must not ‘fall into traps’, David David warns  

Brexit is not over and Britain must not ‘fall into traps’, David David warns David Davis said there were ‘issues’ with Northern Ireland, fishing and Gibraltar He said giving MPs one day to approve the deal was ‘frankly not enough’  But the former Brexit secretary said the deal secured by Boris Johnson was ‘much better than … Read more