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...“More banks and building societies have been lowering their rates in recent weeks as they try to attract more borrowers,” said Aaron Strutt, director at Trinity Financial....
...Aaron Strutt, of broker Trinity Financial, said: “Many borrowers are facing huge and often unaffordable increases in their monthly repayments and they are worried....
...The club’s recovery over the next decade culminated in winning the European Cup with the “Holy Trinity” of George Best, Denis Law and Bobby Charlton in attack....
...“There was this place called the Metro Club. I made friends with the musicians and I used to jam with them, playing congas.”...
...Dan Frumkin, Metro’s chief executive, said: “We’re continuing to see exceptional demand in the mortgage market.”...
...Reach, which was formerly known as Trinity Mirror, has been a prolific acquirer of regional and local titles and last year bought the Express and Daily Star tabloid newspapers for £127m....
...The move follows a similar measure by Nationwide, and a decision by Metro Bank only to use 50 per cent of bonus income when judging affordability....
...Sellside Stories ● Investec upgrades Metro Bank to “hold” with a £35.85 target....
...Metro Bank offers up to 5.5 times income to solicitors, barristers, doctors, accountants and actuaries who have qualified in the past decade....
...Earlier this month, Trinity Mirror, owner of the Daily Mirror and over 150 local titles, announced it was in exclusive talks to buy the Express and Star newspapers from Richard Desmond....
...The move follows Trinity Mirror’s recent announcement that it was in talks with Richard Desmond to buy 100 per cent of his Daily Express group — a sign, perhaps, that the starting gun has been fired on the...
...The initial three-year term is until 2020; after that a metro mayor will be elected every four years....
...The company also announced it would hand back to DMGT four of the eight regional Metro franchises it operates, with effect from January 1, 2017....
...Similarly Trinity Mirror announced last month it was closing a printing plant in Cardiff....
...It hoped to attract advertisers who used Metro but wanted national coverage. BT and British Gas took space in the first edition on Monday....
...It looks less Mail than Metro — the free publication with which it is bound to compete. And it offers a time-poor, digitally obsessed audience plenty of easy bridges from tablet to tabloid....
...The UK has seen successful launches of low-cost free papers such as Metro and City AM, and The Independent, which closed its own print edition in March, spun off “i”, the paper owned by Johnston Press....
...Metro Bank, for example, allows all customers to rent their properties on short let websites for three months each year without asking permission....
...The success in recent years of Metro, the world’s largest free newspaper by daily circulation, and of i, the 40p daily tabloid, demonstrates that savvy publishers can make money from print even in a market...
...After all, he said, two of the UK’s most financially successful newspapers in recent years were Metro and the Evening Standard....
...Which requires Lombard to wrap up by concluding respectfully that The New Day may struggle against the free Metro just as Trinity is struggling to generate any top-line growth. jonathan.guthrie@ft.com...
...Aaron Strutt, product director at broker Trinity Financial, said it had become “incredibly easy” for many borrowers to switch deals. “They simply log into their online account and choose a new rate....
...Advertising at its titles — including the Daily Mail, MailOnline and Metro — fell 6 per cent year-on-year in the three months to June....
...DMGT owns a 38.7 per cent stake in Local World, which is in talks about a takeover from rival publisher Trinity Mirror....
...The company said that Local World, a joint venture between Trinity Mirror, DMGT and the Yattendon Group, was on target to make profits of £30m, ahead of its original plan, as integration savings were more...
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