Kim Walker

Over 50,000 households fitted solar panels on their home in the first three months of this year alone, industry figures revealed this summer. Typical installation costs are now around £7,000, according to the Energy Saving Trust, but can be over £10,000. Before snapping up a home with solar panels, it’s sensible to know how everything […]

Talks between the Screen Actors Guild—American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) and entertainment companies have collapsed. Winning portfolio moves amidst a market downturn

INVESTING EXPLAINED: What you need to know about ADRs By City & Finance Reporter Updated: 22:24 BST, 13 October 2023 In this series, we bust the jargon and explain a popular investing term or theme. Here it’s ADRs. Another abbreviation? What can we say? The financial services industry lives to give us more and more sets […]

It has been a week since NS&I pulled its best-ever savings bond, which paid 6.2 per cent over 12 months. The Guaranteed Growth bond was on sale for five weeks and took the market by storm, leading the best buy table for the entirety of that time and scooping up 225,000 savers. After it was […]

In the UK on average, Brits attempt their driving twice before mastering it and getting the all-important pass – 12% of people will need more than three attempts. However, if you’re on your third or fourth driving test attempt and losing hope, maybe it’s not you, maybe it’s actually the test center. A new study has […]

When 17-year-old Flynn Gardiner bought his first car – a £2,000 Volkswagen even older than him – he assumed his insurance costs would be next to nothing. But the cancer-stricken first-time driver couldn’t have been more wrong. The engineering student was presented with eye-watering annual quotes of more than £3,000, far more than his part-time Burger […]

JUPITER MERIAN NORTH AMERICAN EQUITY FUND: ‘Man and machine’ join forces to pick best US stocks By Rachel Rickard Straus Updated: 21:50 BST, 14 October 2023 Making an above-average profit investing in US companies is notoriously difficult. The US market is so trawled over by investors across the globe that it is tough to come […]

Abcam founder speaks out against growing exodus of British life science companies Jonathan Milner founded biotech group Abcam in 1998 Milner aiming to thwart US takeover bid Company moved its share listing to Nasdaq tech market in New York in 2020 By Calum Muirhead Updated: 21:50 BST, 14 October 2023 The entrepreneur behind one of […]

Driving schools are knowingly exploiting a post-Covid DVSA backlog to charge people hundreds of pounds extra to book driving tests, MailOnline can reveal. Rahat Fokrul, the head of Fast Driving Test Booking (FDTBooking), admitted his company was ripping off customers by charging excessive prices. His company charges £180 to book a driving test that should […]

They should leave their liberal politics at home.