HSBC’s UK boss has warned that mortgage costs have further to rise but it is “trying to limit the pain”. Ian Stuart told Sky’s Ian King Live it had 300,000 customers coming off fixed rate deals this year and admitted they faced a shock in the current market. “If you took a mortgage maybe two
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Italy’s controversial former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has died. The 86-year-old senator and leader of the Forza Italia party, whose string of financial and sex scandals made him the most polarising figure in modern Italy, was admitted to hospital on Friday. He had been discharged from hospital last month where he was treated for over
Part of a crucial highway in the US has collapsed after a tanker carrying gasoline caught fire underneath an overpass. The stretch of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia is used by 160,000 vehicles a day – and officials have warned it will take several months to rebuild. No injuries or deaths have been reported so far,
Kevin Federline says he and his family have had to endure way too much over the years, and a recent report claiming those around Britney fear she’s on meth is just too much to handle … and he’s fighting back. The report, published over the weekend by The Sun and Daily Mail is from a
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