Savings income is cut to pennies: Bad news for your nest-egg as the base rate drops to a record low [16 mins][United Kingdom]
Savers are being hit with interest rates as low as 0.001 per cent as the Bank of England's base rate falls to its lowest for 315 years. | The martyrs of Amritsar [40 mins][Amritsar]
On a sweltering afternoon 90 years ago in April, a squad of Gurkha and Baluchi troops under the command of British officers marched into an enclosed park in the city of Amritsar and levelled their weapons. The park was densely crowded and there was only one way in and out. The officer in charge – General Reginald Dyer, whose name will forever be cloaked in infamy – then gave the order to fire. |