Mortgage deal rise shows market is stabilising

THE number of mortgage deals available to buyers has reached an 11-month high – a sign stability is returning to the Covid-hit market.

Comparison site Moneyfacts.co.uk found 3,215 deals this month – a 42 per cent rise since October. And there were 248 products in the lowdeposit bracket, up from 70 in July last year. The average shelf life of offers is up to 40 days, from 28, giving would-be borrowers ‘a better chance’ of securing their chosen deal, said the site’s Eleanor Williams.

DETECTIVES are still probing the attempted assassination of the man who masterminded one of Britain’s biggest-ever heists.

Paul Allen, who stole £53million in the 2006 Securitas depot raid, was shot in July 2019. He was hit in the neck when six shots were fired at a £1.2million home rented from comedian Russell Kane.

The 43-year-old, who served a third of his 18-year sentence for the raid, survived the attack in Woodford Green, north London.

The Metropolitan Police has made eight arrests but no one has been charged. Det Insp Matthew Webb urged anyone with information to get in touch.

CLIMATE change has made the hayfever season three weeks longer, prolonging the misery for millions of sufferers. The amount of pollen in the air has also gone up by a fifth since 1990, a study by the University of Utah found.

TWO men suspected of painting graffiti in Larne condemning Irish Sea border checks face charges of criminal damage and possessing paint to harm property. Coleraine magistrates bailed William Donnell, 21, of Larne, and Mitchell Leeburn, 25, of Kilwaughter, until March 25.

A GIRL of two cannot live with her dad, who has a history of violence towards people and animals, a High Court judge has ordered.

Mrs Justice Roberts said she was extremely concerned for the physical safety of the child, who will now be brought up by foster carers instead of her parents.

The judge said the dad had a significant history of criminal offending, while reports showed he had graphic fantasies about harming animals and stalking and killing paedophiles.

He had made a particularly concerning comment that if he could not care for his child ‘no one else will,’ the court heard.

The girl is in temporary council care, where she was placed shortly after birth.

ROMEO BECKHAM made sure his girlfriend Mimi Moocher didn’t feel left behind when he went to the Super Bowl in Florida with dad David. Romeo, 18, posted a couple’s selfie, writing: ‘Miss you weirdo xx.’