Новости за 09.05.2015

In conditions so cold the British sprinter Richard Kilty applied Deep Heat simply to keep warm, Jessica Ennis-Hill lined up for her first race for nearly two years in Manchester.

It may be a common belief that having more sex will make you happier but according to a new study, the opposite could be true.

I did think immediately, ‘I don’t want to do a piece about posh people and frocks’,” says Maria Friedman, recalling her initial reaction to Kevin Spacey’s offer of directing the Cole Porter musical High Society at the Old Vic.

"My goal is to tell the truth as I see it and not be afraid. What sort of person are you if you only say things that you know people will applaud?” That pretty much sums up the modus operandi of firebrand left-wing comic Bill Maher, who is rarely out of the news in the United States for causing some controversy or other.

Q. I created an account with TalkTalk in November for phone and high-speed medium fibre optic, with free installation – which is normally £50 – and a £6 delivery charge for the router. The router arrived on 6 December and my go-live date was set for 8 December.

Are they still going up?

It has been almost a year since the pro-business leader Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party hailed a landmark election victory in India. For the first time ever, a centre-right government won an outright majority, and it has been active in its reform efforts to enhance the nation's economic potential and crack down on corruption.

Lots of firms have tried to get in on the royal baby act with offers this week, but that shouldn't stop Bargain Hunter fans trying to profit from their blatant attempts at exploitation.

You have less than a week to snap up one of the high-paying 65-Plus Guaranteed Growth Bonds. The government-backed savings accounts pay up to 4 per cent if you lock your cash away for three years and 2.8 per cent if you choose a one-year bond.

Almost five years ago, I reported in some detail the collapse of a currency firm that went bust owing £20m to around 12,500 people. This week the people behind the firm were finally brought to justice, but the court case ended in tragedy after the man behind the scandal killed himself last Sunday while the jury was still deliberating its verdict.

I'm pleased to report that there's a new financial mutual. In fact the Military Mutual launched at the end of April and is already reporting great interest among potential customers.

I wrote earlier this week about the dangers of your energy supplier inflating your direct debit to take account of any underpayments that may have happened during the winter months.

When a successful chief executive decides to seek pastures new, it invariably prompts a degree of apprehension in the stock market. So the signalled departure of Andy Harrison from the Whitbread hospitality giant has tended to blow some of the froth off an outstanding set of figures.

I hope my recent promotion to paterfamilias will afford my outpourings some previously missing gravitas. Given that I have been up to my chest in befouled nappies, denied even the merest rags of sleep and gibbering in a corner from the screaming, I'd expect you to be more accepting if my prose tends (more than normal) toward the meandering and … what's the word … [yawn] … ah, who cares.

Should you be fixing your mortgage for the next decade? A new market-leading low rate – less than 3 per cent for 10 years – was launched this week by the Woolwich. With that offer, the mortgage lender, part of Barclays, has put the focus back on longer deals.

At the beginning of April the media went into overdrive, speculating what would happen when people were given greater access to their pension cash, but it seems that the scare stories of people splurging on fast cars and expensive holidays were wide of the mark.