Lloyd’s of London says Covid insurance payouts will hit record £6.2BILLION for 2020 as insurance market suffers £887m annual loss in biggest single event in its 335-year history Lloyd’s of London suffered £887m loss last year, after profits of £2.5bn in 2019
An eight-year-old cancer survivor in California has smashed the record for selling Girl Scout cookies, by shifting more than 32,000 boxes in a mammoth haul. Lilly Bumpus, from San Bernardino, beat Ewing’s Sarcoma as a toddler and is now an active fundraiser
Frustration as the final round of 50,000 travel vouchers for Victorians are snapped up in record time, leaving thousands disappointed Third and final allocation of Victorian travel vouchers has been snatched up It took five minutes for the final 50,000 Victorian travel
Tree-planting drive takes root as National Trust record first 60,000 saplings in bid for 20million more National Trust has received £500,000 in public donations for its campaign Charity has planted 60,000 trees so far and plans to plant 20million by 2030 More locations
Breath-taking! Diver holds his breath underwater for 24 MINUTES 33 SECONDS to set new world record Budimir Buda Šobat, 54, held his breath underwater for 24 minutes 33 seconds His attempt broke his own previous world record time by over two minutes
Ultra-rare gold coin from King Edward VIII’s short-lived reign sells for a world record £1.65million The coin with the controversial monarch’s bust was never put into circulation The trial coin sparked a bidding war when it went under the hammer in Dallas
We’re running out of motorhomes: Record numbers of Britons are buying the vehicles for staycations, leading to a shortage One dealer had 20 enquiries a week before the pandemic – now it’s 500 a day Caravan and Motorhome Club said record number
Home sales hit their highest daily level in a decade this week, as the housing market boom continued apace. The number of property sales agreed on Tuesday 23 March was the highest for ten years, according to analysis by the UK’s biggest
The British technology industry had a solid 2020, despite the pandemic and fears over Brexit, an annual study shows. Tech start-ups and scale-ups in the UK have more than doubled their collective value since 2017, according to Tech Nation. Collectively, they are
Sydney’s property boom has reached ridiculous levels with a boatshed lacking a house selling for a record $40million. The two-storey structure at Point Piper in the ritzy eastern suburbs added $10million or 33 per cent in just four years, property sales group