Charlotte Gifford

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Charlotte Gifford

Shares in pharmaceutical firms have plunged after President Trump announced plans to apply tariffs to their products in the hope of bringing drug production back to the US. If pharmaceuticals are hit with tariffs, "there may be less scope to pass on price increases to customers in the short term", Ms Streeter explained. However, she continued: "With a longer lens, the impact for GSK might be more minimal, as higher prices get factored into new deals with customers.

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Charlotte Gifford

Tandem Bank, GB Bank and Cynergy Bank are currently offering the highest rate on a one-year deal at 4.55pc. A saver holding £85,000 in a one-year fixed rate bond paying 4.55pc would earn £3,949 in interest. By comparison, a bond paying just 3pc would earn them only £2,585 - a difference of £1,364. The top rate on a two-year bond is slightly lower at 4.48pc with JN Bank. Savers are generally advised not to hold more than £85,000 with any one financial provider.

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Charlotte Gifford

The ISC has calculated that educating these 10,000 additional pupils in the state system would cost the Department for Education £92.8m. Financial advisers last year separately warned that schools were preparing to use a loophole to claim back hundreds of thousands of pounds from the Treasury to "soften" the blow of higher costs. Advisers said that schools were delaying new capital projects in order to benefit from full tax relief.

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Joe Wright |Charlotte Gifford

President says a cash reward to get Americans having more children is 'a good idea'. The data doesn't agreeDonald Trump's plan to give women $5,000 to have children is a "symbolic gesture" which will fail to curb the United States' crumbling birth rate, experts have warned. The push for more babies comes amid decades of falling birth rates. The total fertility rate in 2023 was just 1.62 births per woman, well below the 2.1 required to keep the population even.

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Charlotte Gifford

Energy UK has said that more than 1,000 RTS meters are now being replaced every day. But this suggests hundreds of thousands of homes will not be switched over in time and could be left with a meter that does not work. Ned Hammond, Energy UK's deputy director for customers, told BBC Radio 4's You And Yours programme that the rate of replacement is rising.