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Savings giant NS&I is facing a major backlash after axing its Premium Bond cheques and forcing millions of savers online. The Treasury-backed bank has been accused of abandoning older people at a time when its customer service is already in chaos. From next month National Savings & Investments wants to start paying all winnings directly into customer accounts. Cheques will be sent out only in the 'most exceptional' circumstances. That means customers must register their account details with NS&I to receive prize money. Yet many older people are not online and they have been unable to get through on the telephone as NS&I's customer services lines buckle under the pressure. Campaigners say the move is a betrayal of millions of savers who have held Premium Bonds for decades. We'll take out our £27k rather than accept this Linda and Joe McCauley have been buying Premium Bonds since 1963 but are now considering cashing in their entire £27,500 investment. In t

Iran has accused Israel of trying to provoke a war by assassinating a prominent nuclear scientist who Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu named as the father of the rogue nation's nuclear programme.  Mohsen Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi - a physics professor and former officer in the  Iranian Revolutionary Guard - was killed in his car following an explosion and then machine gun fire near to Tehran.   His death comes two years after Israeli PM Netanyahu warned the world to 'remember that name' in a press conference about Iran's nuclear capabilities. The killing of Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi marks the second time Iran has been humiliated this year, after Qassem Soleimani -  a major general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps - was assassinated in a US drone strike in January.   Those  wounded in the attack were rushed to a local hospital but medics were unable to revive Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi.  Iran's armed forces chief of staff Major General Mohammad Bagheri called Fakhrizdeh'

Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert was released in a reported prisoner swap deal early after spending two years in prison in Iran The high-profile security consultant who masterminded the speedy departure of Schapelle Corby from a Bali prison also played a major role extracting Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert. The Melbourne University Middle Eastern studies lecturer was finally freed after 804 days behind bars in an Iranian jail on trumped-up charges of spying for Israel. But it's been revealed Ms Moore-Gilbert was moved to a Tehran safehouse earlier this month as prisoner-swap negotiation played out between Australia, Iran and Thailand. John McLeod, the figure behind Tora Solutions, was close by as the events unfolded, the Herald Sun reported - like he had been when Bail prisoner Sara Conor was released from jail earlier this year and when Adam Whittington was whirled away from Beirut following the 60 Minutes child abduction saga in 2016. His clandestine spy craft was highly publicis

At Thanksgiving, Americans get together to celebrate what really matters — family, friends, food and fellowship. Even if Covid-19 is this year putting a brake on many reunions, it must be the hardest time of the year to be behind bars. And the holiday — which began on Thursday and continues all weekend — will certainly not be easy for one prisoner, Ghislaine Maxwell. In the 'glory days' when she and Jeffrey Epstein glided through their pampered world of private jets, Caribbean islands and amenable royal friends, this U.S. 'holiday season' would see the tireless British socialite spend more than a month partying in the billionaire circles of Manhattan and Palm Beach, Florida, that she and her paedophile chum loved to move in. And the holiday — which began on Thursday and continues all weekend — will certainly not be easy for one prisoner, Ghislaine Maxwell Today, as she languishes in her tiny solitary cell at the forbidding Metropolitan Detention Centre in Brooklyn, New

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the US has topped 13 million, as experts warn that  holiday gatherings will send that number soaring further. The number of COVID-19 patients being treated in hospitals across the United States reached 90,000 on Friday after nearly doubling in the last month. The rate of hospitalizations - now at the highest since the pandemic began - has pushed some medical centers beyond capacity.  The rapid increase comes after weeks of rising infection rates across the country and sees the total number of infections since the pandemic began pushed beyond 13 million, with 264,000 deaths. More than 90,000 people are currently being treated in hospitals across the U.S. Pictured, Doctors prepare to perform a tracheostomy procedure on a patient in the COVID-19 intensive care unit in Houston, Texas Currently, Americans are dying from the disease at a rate of around 65 an hour but the rates of infection are likely to worsen as people who mingled with friends an

There was a time when Peter Cross kept a photograph of Princess Anne in the spare bedroom of his Kent home. Signed by the Princess Royal herself and framed in leather, the image was a touching reminder of what was once tactfully referred to publicly as her 'close friendship' with the former royal protection officer. This week, after another blistering episode from the fourth series of The Crown, that so-called 'friendship' came under the spotlight once again with actress Olivia Colman, playing the on-screen version of the Queen, telling her only daughter of 'rumours about a Sergeant Cross and the two of you being intimate'. Hearing that Cross is to be 'transferred back to desk duties in Croydon', a tearful Anne, played by Erin Doherty, begs her mother: 'Don't do that to me. You can't. He's the one thing that makes me happy.' But given that the series has been dogged by controversy over its tendency to twist reality for the sake of dra