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The proverbial saying ‘bad news travels fast’ can be taken literally. In a wider sense it is a comment on human nature being more interested in failure than success.

What's the origin of the phrase 'Bad news travels fast'?

‘Bad news travels fast’ is first found in print in the English author Thomas Kyd’s tragedic play The Spanish Tragedy , which was written sometime between 1582 and 1592. It includes these lines:

If he lived, the news would soon be here. Nay, evil news fly faster still than good

There’s not a great deal more to say about this expression. Unlike many proverbs, it is merely a literal observation on life rather than the more commonplace uplifting metaphorical motto intended to spur us to greater morality or industry.

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See also: the List of Proverbs .

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Definition: When something negative happens, people learn of it quickly.

Origin of Bad News Travels Fast

The idea behind this expression is that people are quick to share information about misfortune or something bad. On the other hand, good news often goes unreported.

Similar expressions originated in the 1500s. These include examples such as “Euill news neuer commeth to late” from the writer E. Hellowes in the work Guevara’s Epistles from the year 1574.

Another example is “Euill news flie faster still than good” from the writer T. Kyd in the work The Spanish Tragedy from the year 1592.  

Of the various iterations of this expression, Charles Dickens’s use of it in his novel The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby probably made it gain widespread popularity.

In this 1839 novel, Dickens uses the following phrase ,

• Ill news travels fast.

Examples of Bad News Travels Fast

Regina: Ginny, did you hear that the company might need to declare bankruptcy?

Ginny: Unfortunately, yes. I also heard that they are going to try to lay off some workers by the end of the day today.

Regina: I guess the company just released this information a couple minutes ago. How did you learn about it so fast? I was one of the first people the CEO told.

Ginny: Bad news travels fast.

Timmy: Kelsey, I’m so sorry to have to tell you this, but I have awful news.

Kelsey: Is it about Nicole?

Timmy: Yes! How did you know?

Kelsey: I heard she was in a car accident. Bad news travels fast.

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This excerpt is from an article about how companies should treat candidates for hiring.

• Remember that old adage “bad news travels fast?” Well, “fast” has been replaced by “warp speed,” as social media has enabled anything to become viral and remain a few clicks away for eternity. – Forbes

This excerpt is from an article about the use of technology in schools.

• “Reputation is definitely critical. Schools are a small world and people move around and talk to each other. Much of [our] growth has been thanks to referrals and word of mouth, but of course bad news travels fast too.” – The Guardian

The idiom bad news travels fast is another way to say people spread news about bad events very quickly.

Bad news travels fast

Bad news nearly always reaches us more quickly than good news. News about trouble and misfortune circulates fast because people have the tendency to be more eager to pass on negative information than positive information, so it can quickly spread far and wide.

The old version of the proverb is Ill news comes apace .

The origin of the proverb is very s a very old proverb, being traced back to Plutarch, who wrote in 46-120 AD: “ That old proverbial saying, ‘bad news travels fast and far’ is true enough. ” The proverb has been used in various forms throughout history and is still very used today.

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Bad news travels fast

Origin of: bad news travels fast.

This is a very old proverb. Plutarch (46 - 120 AD) wrote, “That old proverbial saying, ‘bad news travels fast and far’”. Many years later, Thomas Kyd in Spanish Tragedy (1594) wrote, “Evil news fly faster still than good.”

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A new study by three MIT scholars has found that false news spreads more rapidly on the social network Twitter than real news does — and by a substantial margin.

“We found that falsehood diffuses significantly farther, faster, deeper, and more broadly than the truth, in all categories of information, and in many cases by an order of magnitude,” says Sinan Aral, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and co-author of a new paper detailing the findings.

“These findings shed new light on fundamental aspects of our online communication ecosystem,” says Deb Roy, an associate professor of media arts and sciences at the MIT Media Lab and director of the Media Lab’s Laboratory for Social Machines (LSM), who is also a co-author of the study. Roy adds that the researchers were “somewhere between surprised and stunned” at the different trajectories of true and false news on Twitter. 

Moreover, the scholars found, the spread of false information is essentially not due to bots that are programmed to disseminate inaccurate stories. Instead, false news speeds faster around Twitter due to people retweeting inaccurate news items.

“When we removed all of the bots in our dataset, [the] differences between the spread of false and true news stood,”says Soroush Vosoughi, a co-author of the new paper and a postdoc at LSM whose PhD research helped give rise to the current study.

The study provides a variety of ways of quantifying this phenomenon: For instance,  false news stories are 70 percent more likely to be retweeted than true stories are. It also takes true stories about six times as long to reach 1,500 people as it does for false stories to reach the same number of people. When it comes to Twitter’s “cascades,” or unbroken retweet chains, falsehoods reach a cascade depth of 10 about 20 times faster than facts. And falsehoods are retweeted by unique users more broadly than true statements at every depth of cascade.

The paper, “The Spread of True and False News Online,” is published today in Science .

Why novelty may drive the spread of falsity

The genesis of the study involves the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings and subsequent casualties, which received massive attention on Twitter.

“Twitter became our main source of news,” Vosoughi says. But in the aftermath of the tragic events, he adds, “I realized that … a good chunk of what I was reading on social media was rumors; it was false news.” Subsequently, Vosoughi and Roy — Vosoughi’s graduate advisor at the time — decided to pivot Vosoughi’s PhD focus to develop a model that could predict the veracity of rumors on Twitter.

Subsequently, after consultation with Aral — another of Vosoughi’s graduate advisors, who has studied social networks extensively — the three researchers decided to try the approach used in the new study: objectively identifying news stories as true or false, and charting their Twitter trajectories. Twitter provided support for the research and granted the MIT team full access to its historical archives. Roy served as Twitter’s chief media scientist from 2013 to 2017.

To conduct the study, the researchers tracked roughly 126,000 cascades of news stories spreading on Twitter, which were cumulatively tweeted over 4.5 million times by about 3 million people, from the years 2006 to 2017.

To determine whether stories were true or false, the team used the assessments of six fact-checking organizations (factcheck.org, hoax-slayer.com, politifact.com, snopes.com, truthorfiction.com, and urbanlegends.about.com), and found that their judgments overlapped more than 95 percent of the time.

Of the 126,000 cascades, politics comprised the biggest news category, with about 45,000, followed by urban legends, business, terrorism, science, entertainment, and natural disasters. The spread of false stories was more pronounced for political news than for news in the other categories.

The researchers also settled on the term “false news” as their object of study, as distinct from the now-ubiquitous term “fake news,” which involves multiple broad meanings.

The bottom-line findings produce a basic question: Why do falsehoods spread more quickly than the truth, on Twitter? Aral, Roy, and Vosoughi suggest the answer may reside in human psychology: We like new things.

“False news is more novel, and people are more likely to share novel information,” says Aral, who is the David Austin Professor of Management. And on social networks, people can gain attention by being the first to share previously unknown (but possibly false) information. Thus, as Aral puts it, “people who share novel information are seen as being in the know.”

The MIT scholars examined this “novelty hypothesis” in their research by taking a random subsample of Twitter users who propagated false stories, and analyzing the content of the reactions to those stories.

The result? “We saw a different emotional profile for false news and true news,” Vosoughi says. “People respond to false news more with surprise and disgust,” he notes, whereas true stories produced replies more generally characterized by sadness, anticipation, and trust.

So while the researchers “cannot claim that novelty causes retweets” by itself, as they state in the paper, the surprise people register when they see false news fits with the idea that the novelty of falsehoods may be an important part of their propagation.

Directions for further research

While the three researchers all think the magnitude of the effect they found is highly significant, their views on its civic implications vary slightly. Aral says the result is “very scary” in civic terms, while Roy is a bit more sanguine. But the scholars agree it is important to think about ways to limit the spread of misinformation, and they hope their result will encourage more research on the subject.

On the first count, Aral notes, the recognition that humans, not bots, spread false news more quickly suggests a general approach to the problem.

“Now behavioral interventions become even more important in our fight to stop the spread of false news,” Aral says. “Whereas if it were just bots, we would need a technological solution.”

Vosoughi, for his part, suggests that if some people are deliberately spreading false news while others are doing so unwittingly, then the phenomenon is a two-part problem that may require multiple tactics in response. And Roy says the findings may help create “measurements or indicators that could become benchmarks” for social networks, advertisers, and other parties.

The MIT scholars say it is possible that the same phenomenon occurs on other social media platforms, including Facebook, but they emphasize that careful studies are needed on that and other related questions.

In that vein, Aral says, “science needs to have more support, both from industry and government, in order to do more studies.”

For now, Roy says, even well-meaning Twitter users might reflect on a simple idea: “Think before you retweet.”

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Prof. Sinan Aral speaks with Marketplace reporter Molly Wood about the proliferation of fake news. “If platforms like Facebook are to be responsible for the spread of known falsities, then they could use policies, technologies or algorithms to reduce or dampen the spread of this type of news, which may reduce the incentive to create it in the first place,” Aral explains.

The Guardian

Researchers from the Media Lab and Sloan found that humans are more likely than bots to be “responsible for the spread of fake news,” writes Paul Chadwick for The Guardian. “More openness by the social media giants and greater collaboration by them with suitably qualified partners in tackling the problem of fake news is essential.”

Jordan Webber of The Guardian addresses the rise of “fake news”, citing research from the Media Lab and Sloan. “I believe that social media is a turning point in human communication,” said Sloan Prof. Sinan Aral. “I believe it is having dramatic effect on our democracies, our politics, even our health.”

The Washington Post

In an op-ed for The Washington Post, Megan McArdle shares her thoughts on research from the Media Lab and Sloan that identifies “fake news” as traveling six times faster than factual news. “The difference between social media and ‘the media’ is that the gatekeeper model…does care more about the truth than ‘the narrative,’” McArdle writes.

The New York Times

Prof. Sinan Aral writes for  The New York Times  about research he co-authored with Postdoc Soroush Vousaghi and Associate Prof. Deb Roy, which found that false news spreads “disturbingly” faster than factual news. “It could be, for example, that labeling news stories, in much the same way we label food, could change the way people consume and share it,” writes Aral. 

Scientific American

Larry Greenemeier of Scientific American writes about a study from researchers at Sloan and the Media Lab that finds “false news” is “70% more likely to be retweeted than information that faithfully reports actual events.” “Although it is tempting to blame automated “bot” programs for this,” says Greenemeier, “human users are more at fault.”

The Atlantic

Researchers from Sloan and the Media Lab examined why false news spreads on Twitter more quickly than factual information. “Twitter bots amplified true stories as much as they amplified false ones,” writes Robinson Meyer for The Atlantic . “Fake news prospers, the authors write, ‘because humans, not robots, are more likely to spread it.’”

Robin Young and Femi Oke of WBUR’s Here and Now highlight research from Sloan and the Media Lab that shows how quickly false news travels the internet. “We [also] found that false political news traveled farther, faster, deeper, and more broadly than any other type of false news,” says Prof. Sinan Aral.

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The meaning, explanation, definition and origin of the idiom/phrase "bad news travels fast", english idiom dictionary ( also found in vietnamese ).

Meaning of Bad News Travels Fast

Bad News Travels Fast proverb negative

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To encounter bad luck, or being picked doing something undesirable

This idiom is often used to express that you should accept an unpleasant situation or event because you cannot change it.

Once something has been done, you can do nothing but face the consequences.

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This proverb can be used at any positions in the sentence, however, make sure that we use it with the correct context.

Origin of Bad News Travels Fast

' Bad news travels fast ' is first found in print in the English author Thomas Kyd's tragedic play  The Spanish Tragedy , which was written sometime between 1582 and 1592. It includes these lines:

If he lived, the news would soon be here. Nay, evil news fly faster still than good

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What sort of news travels fastest online? Bad news, you won’t be shocked to hear

As the old newsroom saw puts it, a thousand planes landing safely isn’t a story. One plane that doesn’t is. That lens on newsworthiness has always given an edge to negative news — wars over peace, crimes over safety, fights over agreement.

That’s the context for an interesting new study out from three researchers at the University of Muenster , Florian Buhl , Elisabeth Günther , and Thorsten Quandt . They, like many academics these days, are interested in how stories spread — but in their case, they’re interested in how they spread from newsroom to newsroom, not among readers on social media.

They built a large dataset tracking every article published on the websites of 28 major German news publishers (“covering all major news outlets”) over a nine-month period in 2013-14. That’s 480,727 articles in all. They then combed through that newspile for stories that were covered by a large number of outlets — “events characterized by widely shared newsworthiness.” That narrowed things down to 95 events that were written about in 1,919 articles across the 28 news sites.

(Among the big international stories covered, in case you want to take a time machine to the Obama years: Amanda Knox, Nelson Mandela dies, shark attacks, MH370, Qatar gets the World Cup, Google sells Motorola, Uruguay legalizes pot, and “Mysterious mummy found in German attic.”)

With all that data, they were able to analyze how these stories spread from newsroom to newsroom — to calculate their “diffusion curves” — and what factors associated with stories helped to predict the speed and extent of that spread. They defined a number of characteristics each story could have: Is it a story from within Germany or outside of it? Are any of the people in the story a prominent well-known figure? Was the news unpredictable, or controversial? Did the outcome of the news event have major beneficial effects for anyone or any group?

As you would probably have been able to tell if I’d mentioned the paper’s title earlier — “Bad News Travels Fastest: A Computational Approach to Predictors of Immediacy in Digital Journalism Ecosystems” — the most significant pattern they could find in the data was that news about negative outcomes spread more quickly than other news. (The academic term of art used here is stories that are high in “damage,” which feels like an awesomely Germanic way to say it.)

The aggregate diffusion curve of news about events causing no or very minor damage accumulates at relatively slow rates during the initial phase of diffusion (20.2% of potential first reports after 30 min, 33.6% after 90 min). In contrast, 42.2% of potential first reports on events causing major damage have been issued after only 30 min (25.9% on events causing minor damage). After 90 min, the shares of issued first reports in their potential total numbers are similar for events causing either major (52.3%) or minor damage (49.4%).

Interestingly, the study found that not many of the factors it identified had much of an impact at all: “We find that most news factors made no difference in a recurring pattern of basically fast diffusion dynamics. Only negative news and stories involving prominent personalities further accelerated diffusion processes and spread even faster.” So a celebrity death — high on both damage and prominence — is essentially peak spreadability.

What stories can slow down a story’s spread? One is obvious: If a story breaks in the middle of the night, when fewer reporters are on duty, it will take longer for it to spread. The other is interesting: News events “characterized by wide reach beyond small groups…slowed down digital diffusion.” That is, a story that primarily impacts individuals or small groups will spread more quickly than one that primarily impacts “the middle class” or “workers” or “society”: “The wider the range of people affected by an event is, the less likely rapid, wide-range diffusion of the story is from the start.”

It’s not particularly shocking that bad news spreads most quickly. Aside from whatever deep ev-psych patterns may be at play, a big negative story is also the sort of thing an editor wouldn’t want to be missing. They also tend to be more readily replicable; if someone’s dead, that’s easier to confirm in 20 minutes than a story about political intrigue.

But I do despair a bit at the thought of all those journalist person-hours spent writing relatively rote follows to a story some other paper had. Thirteen outlets spent time on that attic-mummy, which turned out to be not so Egyptian and to have bones made out of plastic. (Though a real human skull . Creepy!) And the fact that stories that impact more people spread more slowly says something about our collective desire to reduce complicated phenomena into individual, human stories. (Think of how the climate-change stories that sometimes breakthrough are often those that focus on its impact on a single community.)

As the researchers conclude:

We consider this study a promising example of how an analytical ecosystem approach aided by computational methods and a broad media sample can further our understanding of digital newswork. Specifically, our results suggest journalism research should not take the logic of classic theories such as news values for granted when applied to novel phenomena. We hope our glimpse into the sophistications of online news production from a process perspective will inspire future research to complement the shortcomings of this study and to further untangle the interplay of technological and professional opportunities and affordances in digital newsrooms. For example, researchers could outline and test more fine-grained indicators for the prominent elements of stories news users easily relate to (e.g., categories of people, sites, or actions). Likewise, researchers could distinguish between events confirming the status quo and events indicating crucial turning points in the development of an established issue, hence necessitating prompt coverage.

You can download the dataset used in this study here .

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bad news travels fast ( English)

• Bad news circulates quickly because people often spread it everywhere.
• 1992 , Robert L. Genua, Managing Your Mouth: An Owner's Manual for Your Most Important Business Asset , ISBN 0814478034: " After all, reorganizations, personnel changes, new policies on subjects such as travel and expense reports, are everyday occurrences, but the rumor that the Vice President of Sales has a son at college who was arrested for possession of a controlled substance, aha! That is another matter. That is news! Once put out on the grapevine, it will travel with blinding speed around the circuit. Bad news travels fast . "
• 2011 , Wendy Hornsby, Bad Intent , ISBN 1453229299: " Bad news travels fast , especially when it travels by satellite. I had picked up the receiver with a sense of dread. I expected to hear on the other end an obscene caller, a local news person looking for fresh dirt, a concerned but nosy friend. "
• 2012 , J.W. James III, North Beach Road , ISBN 1468544055, page 66: " In small towns, as the saying goes, bad news travels fast . St. Charles, Idaho was no exception. Recent going's on eventually makes their way to people one might not expect. "
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• Japanese: 悪事千里を走る ‎
• no news is good news

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Malicious gossip spreads like wildfire. I guess that's why they say bad news travels fast . Tatoeba.org Sentence 28579

Well, they say bad news travels fast . Tatoeba.org Sentence 28580

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悪事千里を走る : 悪事千里を走る (Japanese) Proverb 悪事千里を走る (hiragana , romaji ) bad news travels fast

あくじせんりをはしる : あくじせんりをはしる (Japanese) Verb 悪事千里を走る: bad news travels fast

好事不出門，壞事傳千里 : 好事不出門，壞事傳千里 (Chinese) trad. 好事不出門，壞事傳千里, simpl. 好事不出门，坏事传千里…

ill news spreads apace : ill news spreads apace (English) Proverb ill news spreads apace (archaic) Bad news circulates quickly because people like to gossip. 1812, The Scouge; or Monthly Expositor of Imposture…

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Bad News Travels Fast

Bad News Travels Fast (also known simply as Bad News ) is a 2010 Chevrolet Silverado monster truck owned and driven by Brandon Derrow out of Elkton, Virginia. The truck was originally created in 1998 by Bruce Haney out of Bronson, Florida, who drove the truck for thirteen years, until his retirement in 2011, and sold the entire operation to Derrow, who continues to operate the truck to this day.

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History [ ]

Bruce haney era (1998-2011) [ ].

Bad News Travels Fast was originally created after Bruce Haney purchased the previous Excaliber truck from Charlie Pauken , who initially retired before he returned the next year to driver Grave Digger . At the time of its debut, the truck featured a black paint scheme that was campaigned for four years.

A new white paint scheme debuted. The truck also began running under the name “Bad News” for the time being, and also began competition in the Thunder Nationals .

A brand-new Bad News Travels Fast was constructed, featuring a new paint scheme that displayed the first incarnation of the iconic paperboy character. The truck also received a new PEI chassis. This variant of Bad News Travels Fast also happened to be the most successful, as the truck made multiple televised appearances on Monster Jam .

A brand-new orange paint scheme was created for Bad News Travels Fast, which was first unveiled at the start of the season. The truck would also receive a new Chevrolet Silverado body style. Haney and the truck would also be nominated for that year’s Crash Madness award, in which the truck performed a power wheelie in Des Moines, Iowa, and the left front wheel clipped a car in the process, resulting in the entire front axle being torn off of the truck.

Meanwhile, Haney continued to drive Bad News Travels Fast until his retirement in 2011.

Brandon Derrow era (2011-present) [ ]

Following Haney’s retirement, he sold the entire operation to Brandon Derrow out of Virginia.

Bad News Travels Fast received a new purple paint scheme.

Derrow and the truck would later be selected as one of sixteen trucks to compete in the inaugural Monster Jam Fox Sports 1 Championship Series .

The truck received a new green paint scheme.

Derrow and the truck competed in Monster Jam Arena Championship Series 5 . During the series, they would win an overall event championship in Milwaukee , and finish fourth in the standings. Meanwhile, the truck also competed in Tampa for Stadium Championship Series 4 .

The Bad News Travels Fast team celebrated their 20th Anniversary , and debuted a new black paint scheme for the occasion, which was reminiscent of the truck’s original paint scheme from 1998. Meanwhile, Derrow and the truck competed in Monster Jam Stadium Championship Series 3 .

Bad News Travels Fast would compete in the Arena Championship Series , winning an overall event championship in Wilkes-Barre. Derrow and the truck would go on to finish eighth in the series standings.

Bad News Travels Fast competed in select Monster Jam arena events throughout the first quarter.

Bad News Travels Fast received a new blue paint scheme and would compete in select events throughout Monster Jam Arena Championship Series East . Former Fox Sports 1 Cleatus driver Frank Krmel would also drive the truck for the series' events in Washington, D.C. The truck finished 8th.

The Bad News Travels Fast team celebrated their 25th anniversary, the truck received a slightly updated paint scheme for the occasion, featuring a 25th Anniversary tailgate which features their 25th anniversary tour set to be across various shows such as Monster Truck Throwdown, All Star Monster Truck Tour and more.

Video game appearances [ ]

• Monster Jam: Path of Destruction
• Since 2016, the numbers displayed on the helmet of the paperboy character on the side panels of Bad News Travels Fast represent the age of Derrow’s son. Following the birth of his daughter in 2018, the character on the left side panel began representing the age of his daughter beginning in 2019. It would also feature hair strands sticking out from underneath the helmet and around the shoulders.
• Bad News Travels Fast features LED lights that are displayed on the eyes of the paperboy character (see gallery).
• During the televised European airing of the 2009 Knoxville event, Bad News Travels Fast is misspelled as "Bad News Traves Fast" as its wheelie score is revealed. [1]
• Starting in 2018, for independent events, the truck runs a pair of Goodyear tires on the front, and a pair of Firestone tires on the back.
• Brian Z. Patton 's website logo was used on the black space of the Spinmaster diecast. [2]

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Chris “BadNews” Barnes to release “BadNews Travels Fast” produced by Tom Hambridge

Gulf Coast Records announces the signing of Nashville-based blues/rock singer Chris BadNews Barnes and the April 26 th  release date for his label debut album,  BadNews Travels Fast . The new album is available for pre-order starting .  Gulf Coast Records will release the title track as the first single and digital pre-order on March 15.

BadNews Travels Fast  was produced by multi-Grammy winner Tom Hambridge, who also played drums on the sessions and co-wrote all of the songs on the new disc with Barnes. Joining in the recording fun was an “A-List” of Nashville musicians, along with such special guests as singers Jimmy Hall and Sugaray Rayford and guitarist Walter Trout.

“I have been a fan of Chris Barnes for years,” said Gulf Coast label head Mike Zito in announcing the signing. “He is obviously very well known for his comedic acting and writing from ‘SNL’ to ‘Seinfeld’ and ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ appearances. I took real notice of Chris a few years back when we played together at The Big Blues Bender. Chris is a sincere singer/songwriter with a style all his own. His stage presence is nothing short of exuberant. Gulf Coast Records is proud to have Chris Barnes join our family in 2024!”

“I’m honored to have found a home for my original songs with fellow artists who are also true friends,” stated Chris BadNews Barnes. “Gulf Coast has built a Castle for today’s cutting-edge Blues Artist and I’m grateful to be inside The Gates. Mike and Gulf Coast…I Offer You My Sword, Now let’s Go Slay Some Dragons!

“This is my fifth album and the second produced by Grammy Award-Winning Tom Hambridge,” added Barnes. “Walter Trout, Jimmy Hall, and Sugaray Rayford have all lent their talents for this impassioned and personal Contemporary Blues Album. “

1.       BadNews Travels Fast – Chris Barnes, Tom Hambridge 2.       True Blues – Chris Barnes, Tom Hambridge 3.       You Right Baby – Chris Barnes, Tom Hambridge, Richard Fleming 4.       A Bluesman Can’t Cry – Chris Barnes, Tom Hambridge 5.       The Juice Ain’t Worth The Squeeze – Chris Barnes, Tom Hambridge 6.       BluesBaller Baby – Chris Barnes, Tom Hambridge 7.       His Majesty The Baby – Chris Barnes, Tom Hambridge, Richard Fleming 8.       Skin To Skin – Chris Barnes, Tom Hambridge, Richard Fleming 9.       Ambushed By The Blues – Chris Barnes, Tom Hambridge, Richard Fleming 10.   Do The Houdini – Chris Barnes, Tom Hambridge 11.   Mushrooms Make Me a Fun Guy – Chris Barnes, Tom Hambridge

Demand for food delivery has skyrocketed. So have complaints about some drivers.

BOSTON — A soaring demand for food delivered fast has spawned small armies of couriers — and increasing alarm — in big cities where scooters, motorcycles and mopeds zip in and out of traffic and hop onto pedestrian-filled sidewalks as their drivers race to drop off salads and sandwiches.

Officials in Boston, New York and Washington, D.C., have started cracking down on delivery companies by issuing warning letters, seizing illegally registered or driven vehicles, and launching special street patrols to enforce speed limits. The pushback is not limited to the U.S.: There have also been a series of crackdowns in London and other British cities.

For their part, the delivery companies have pledged to work with city officials to ensure that all of their drivers operate both legally and safely.

In a letter this week to food delivery companies DoorDash, Grubhub and Uber, Boston officials cited an “alarming increase in unlawful and dangerous operation of motorcycles, mopeds and motorized scooters” that they said put the drivers, other motorists and pedestrians “in imminent danger.”

The letter alleged that some drivers were operating unregistered vehicles and breaking traffic laws, and warned of an imminent crackdown on the vehicles. It also demanded that the companies explain how they can ensure their drivers are operating safely. The Massachusetts State Police said they identified dozens of mopeds and scooters that were improperly registered or being operated by unlicensed drivers. Fourteen illegal mopeds and scooters were seized Wednesday in one Boston neighborhood alone.

In New York City, authorities have seized 13,000 scooters and mopeds so far this year; on Wednesday, they crushed more than 200 illegal mopeds and other delivery vehicles. Authorities in Washington, D.C., meanwhile, launched a program Wednesday called Operation Ride Right to ensure drivers of two-wheeled vehicles are complying with the law. Since it began, authorities have made five arrests and impounded 17 mopeds.

“They have terrorized many of our pedestrians, particularly our senior and older adults,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Wednesday at an event in which motorized two-wheeled delivery vehicles were destroyed. “Riders who think the rules don’t apply to them, they’re going to see an aggressive enforcement policy that’s in place.”

When food delivery services had their major resurgence during the COVID-19 pandemic, most drivers used cars to deliver their fare. That led to increased traffic congestion, prompting a shift to motorcycles and other two-wheeled modes of transportation.

The drivers, many of them immigrants from Latin American countries but also from West Africa and South Asia, say they are just trying to earn a living and are providing a service that gets customers their food fast.

“We’re not all bad,” said Luis López, a delivery driver from the Dominican Republic who spoke to The Associated Press on Friday from his motorcycle in an area of multiple fast-food restaurants near the Boston Public Library. “We come to work, to earn a living, pay the rent and send something to our families.”

López, who came to the U.S. about three years ago, acknowledged that some drivers are unlicensed or driving unregistered vehicles, and he’s seen them running red lights and onto sidewalks, menacing pedestrians. Some people are so reckless that they’re also putting other delivery drivers at risk, he said.

He said he was among a group of 10 delivery drivers outside a Chick-fil-A on Thursday night when a police officer approached them with a flyer describing how to register their scooters and mopeds. The whole group agreed to do just that.

“We have to respect the law,” he said, speaking in Spanish. “We are going to respect the law so that they let us work here.”

Drivers of motorized two-wheeled vehicles are coming under much more scrutiny than was faced years ago by other gig workers in cars, such as Uber and Lyft drivers, because they can more easily violate traffic laws, said Hilary Robinson, an associate professor of law and sociology at Northeastern University.

The switch to the vehicles “is really an attempt to make low-wage, high-risk labor available so that all of us can have cheap goods and services,” Robinson said. “It’s perhaps one of the reasons why people are starting to realize that there really is no such thing as a free lunch.”

William Medina, a delivery worker in New York who is also an organizing leader with the Los Deliveristas Unidos Campaign, blames the delivery companies.

“This is a problem that started because the companies force you to complete the deliveries from far distances,” he said in a telephone interview Friday. Medina started out delivering food on a bicycle, switched to an electric bike, and now is using a moped to make the longer trips.

“If you have to complete the delivery 6 miles, 7 miles, you have to complete it,” he said.

Among those advocating for tougher enforcement in Boston is City Councilor Edward Flynn, who said on Facebook that it “can no longer be the Wild West on the streets of Boston.”

“Everyone using city roads needs to abide by the rules of the road. If you’re able to go 25 mph like a car — you should be licensed, registered, and carry liability insurance in the event of an accident and injury,” he wrote.

Some Boston residents are supportive of tougher action against the scooters.

“I get frustrated when they don’t follow the traffic laws,” said Anne Kirby, a 25-year-old student having lunch in a Boston neighborhood within a few hundred feet of several scooters. “I feel like I almost get hit every day when they go through the crosswalk when it’s not their turn to go.”

But Jaia Samuel, a 25-year-old hospital worker from Boston, was more conflicted. She said she agreed that delivery scooters can be dangerous, but she also acknowledged that she relies heavily on delivery services for her food.

“I do think it’s unsafe to an extent, the weaving in between cars and the not stopping for red lights,” she said. “But I feel like everybody should be able to make a living, so who am I to say anything? It would be unfortunate for me. I would be taking a hit with the crackdown on them. I order a lot of Uber Eats, DoorDash.”

Three major food delivery services have pledged to work with officials and neighborhood advocates to address the problem.

“The overwhelming majority of Dashers do the right thing and like all drivers must follow the rules of the road. If they don’t, then they face consequences — just like anyone else,” DoorDash said in a statement Wednesday.

Grubhub said its employees already agree to obey all local traffic laws. “While enforcement of the law is best handled by the police, we take safety seriously and will take action to address any reports of unsafe driving,” the company said in a statement Thursday.

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I drove the Tesla Cybertruck. These 7 design flaws surprised me.

• I tested Tesla's brand new Cybertruck. 
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• But some small oversights made the expensive product feel rushed. 

The Cybertruck is unlike anything I've ever driven.

Even before I got behind the wheel, its metallic angles screamed uniqueness from across a parking lot. On the road, it drew gaping looks from other drivers, while pedestrians chased it down for photos.

Inside the truck, things only got more quirky. It had all the standard Tesla features , like a massive screen for controlling almost everything, a card (or phone) that acts as the key, voice control, and a yoke-shaped steering wheel.

But a few features stuck out to me and felt surprisingly rushed — especially in the company's newest and most highly anticipated product yet.

Are they all dealbreakers? Probably not. But for a price tag of more than $100,000, potential customers are allowed to be a little discerning, even if the main draw here is aesthetics and completely over-the-top specs.

These seven features annoyed me in my three-day jaunt around central Texas:

The Cybertruck's massive windshield doesn't mesh well with the Texas sun.

The Cybertruck's windshield is massive and more horizontal than many other vehicles. In the Texas sun, this didn't mesh well with the truck's all-black interior.

Driving in direct sunlight, any part of my arm or leg that was exposed and not getting direct ventilation was uncomfortable, and I knew cranking the air conditioning would drain battery life.

Inconveniently, the controls for the AC vents are buried in a settings menu on the main screen. No simple, one-motion adjustment of an air vent here — this is the future!

Charging also got hot. It was barely spring when I tested out the Cybertruck, and within three hours of charging in the direct sunlight, temperatures inside had climbed to more than 130 degrees.

Luckily, Elon Musk has tried to counter this somewhat with remote AC and window controls, and " dog mode ."

I questioned whether anyone tested the sun visors.

Like most cars, the upper part of the Cybertruck's windshield has extra tint to help with glare. But unlike most cars, the Cybertruck's sun visor leaves some windshield exposed when unfolded for use — and plenty of sun can still wreak havoc.

Don't forget your sunglasses! They won't just be to look cool.

Want to fast charge on a non-Tesla plug? Good luck.

I learned the hard way that charging infrastructure in this country is still a long way from perfect. All Tesla cars come with an adapter for some slow charger plugs, as was the case in my Turo rental.

But newer fast chargers not run by Tesla usually feature a plug known as CCS, which was basically the industry standard before a big switch to Tesla's plugs last year by most automakers.

To charge at one of those, you'll need a different adapter that Tesla sells for $250. However, it specifically does not work with the Cybertruck because of its protruding plastic fenders . Some other Tesla models require a service appointment to make it work.

Of the more than 40,000 public fast-charging plugs in the US, more than 60% are Tesla, according to data from the Department of Energy. Tesla's plugs are the clear winner here, but not being able to use any others could certainly be a headache.

The truck lacks door handles in the ceiling.

What are nervous passengers supposed to grab while warning you of brake lights ahead?!

For a truck designed to excite, there's a surprising lack of " oh shit handles " for surprised passengers to grip during a terrified yelp while accelerating from 0 to 100-and-god-knows-what in a matter of seconds.

It's like a roller coaster, except there also isn't room to fully extend your hands in the air either.

To be fair, the backseat still has requisite hooks for hanging garments. No handle there, either.

You better hope the automatic suspension adjustment to "entry" height when parking is enough. These standard handles are about accessibility.

The wheel covers are easily damaged.

Wheel covers are a ubiquitous part of nearly every single electric vehicle. They improve aerodynamics by reducing drag, which helps range. In some cases, they look cool too.

But unlike in some other Tesla models, the Cybertruck's plastic wheel covers extend beyond the tire. Even the lightest scrape of a curb is noticeable.

Aesthetics aside, when you combine the truck's massive footprint and less-than-nimble maneuvering with tight spaces, it's a disaster waiting to happen.

Here's a close-up of the damage from the lightest of brushes with a curb.

Sure, the buyers of a $100,000 truck are probably going to have a garage. But what about the trendy restaurant downtown with only street parking? Are you going to trust the valet with this?

Traffic-aware cruise control was far from perfect.

This rental Cybertruck didn't have Autopilot or Full Self-Driving yet, despite having all the necessary hardware. Still, I'm not sure I would have trusted it based on one incident alone.

Let's set the scene:

I was cruising down a highway at more than 70 miles per hour when I approached a flashing yellow light that warned of an intersection ahead. The truck suddenly started beeping incessantly and braking, despite no actual change in the road ahead.

To be fair, Tesla does say in its manual that traffic-light and stop-sign control is a beta feature that "may also stop at green lights."

I appreciate the robo-concern, but the hiccup shows how many of these so-called edge cases will need to be conquered before true self-driving software can exist at any meaningful scale.

Beware, children, of the death frunk.

This frunk is not safe.

I placed a carrot on the open frunk's frame to test the sensitivity of the lid as it closed. The door sliced cleanly through the carrot.

I'm far from the first person to use a faux-finger carrot in the front-trunk's closing mechanism. It still was unsettling to see in person.

Most other cars have automatic sensors to detect a rogue body part in the way of a closing trunk or frunk, but apparently not the Cybertruck. Watch out for those fingers!

Hey, at least it has a button for opening from the inside in case you are stuck or kidnapped (as required by law).

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Malaga has followed other big Spanish cities in halting or limiting new holiday flats.

The decision has been made in a bid to crack down on an excessive number of tourist flats, with the number of tourist lets in Malaga rising from 846 in 2006 to more than 12,000 in 2024, a 14-fold increase.

Plentiful sunshine, bustling bars and restaurants, a series of new art museums and a thriving tech sector have attracted digital nomads to Malaga, making it a rival to cities like Barcelona for younger workers.

That popularity has come at a price, however. The average rental price in the city now stands at €14.32 (£12.10) per square meter, an increase of 3.2% over the last quarter, according to Spanish estate agents Sun Properties.

Many locals have seen their homes turned into lets for holidaymakers because the owners earn more on these short lets, prompting protests around the city.

In response, Malaga's council has banned any more properties being turned into tourist accommodation. 

"We recognise the role [tourist flats] have played and play in the recovery of certain areas of the city, but we do not want them to exceed numbers that could be very high," Francisco de la Torre, the mayor of Malaga, told reporters.

Barcelona, Madrid, Seville and Valencia have also taken similar steps.

Sainsbury's has become the first retailer in the UK to offer an electric vehicle charging loyalty scheme . 

Customers using the Smart Charge service will be able to collect Nectar points for doing so. 

Rolling out today, the system allows customers to gain one Nectar point for every £1 spent on charging their car. 

Smart Charge is an ultra-rapid EV charging network with more than 400 charging bays. 

"With bays in more locations than ever before, and Sainsbury’s stores conveniently placed far and wide, it has never been easier for EV drivers across the UK to access ultra-rapid facilities, and now they can reap the benefit of Nectar points too," said Patrick Dunne, Sainsbury's director of property, procurement & EV ventures. 

London's new DLR trains have been delayed due to "challenges" discovered at the testing stage. 

This could mean the reduced service in place could continue for longer than expected. 

In total, 30 new trains have been built and are in various stages of testing, according to the Transport for London's Commissioner's June report . 

It says work is continuing to prepare the first train, which is now expected to be operational in late 2024 - it was originally due to launch in March. 

Issues were noticed in the "integrated testing and operational proving phase", the reports says. 

"While we have experienced some challenges with this phase, we continue to work collaboratively with our suppliers and operator to mitigate this."

By 2026, the DLR is still on track to have 54 new trains, which will be feature USB ports, air cooling tech and real time operational information. 

Arran Rusling, TfL's head of programme for DLR rolling stock replacement, said: "Our programme of rigorous testing continues of the new DLR fleet to ensure the trains can enter service safely and reliably. 

"As part of this, we encountered some complex challenges, which means we will now start to introduce the new trains into passenger service later this year." 

US interest rates are to be cut just once this year, according to updated forecasts from its central bank.

The cost of US borrowing was kept at a more than 20-year high despite news yesterday that inflation, the rate of price rises, fell to the lowest level in more than three years at 3.4%.

The Federal Reserve published new guidance from its interest rate-setting committee, which expects just one rate cut this year. Just three months ago, three cuts were anticipated.

While the UK's interest rate-setters at the Bank of England don't give rate forecasts like the US, market expectations are for three rate cuts this year, according to Refinitiv market data.

The first of those cuts is expected to be in September. It was previously hoped the first cut in more than four years would happen in May - but interest rates were held at 5.25%.

Whispers of "It's coming home" are starting as the nation gears up for the start of the Euros.

The competition kicks off tomorrow night with Scotland vs Germany and, on Sunday, England will play Serbia. 

The price of England shirts have crept up over the years - and this year a "match" shirt from the official England shop will set you back  £124.99 - though there is a cheaper "stadium" shirt for £84.99. 

So to help anyone with any budget get in the spirit, we've rounded up some cheaper alternatives you can buy on the high street. Here's what we've found: 

Sports Direct 

The sporting goods store is selling a range of shirts on its website, including this one for £11 . 

We should point out though that stock seems to be quite limited. The website showed just large shirts were available. 

It's also offering the option to pre-order this women's top for £9.99 .

JD Sports 

One of Sports Direct's competitors - JD Sports - has got "It's Coming Home" T-shirts on its website for £10 . 

If you fancy spending a little more, you can get a shirt with Jude Bellingham or Harry Kane on for £18. 

Asda had a range of cheap shirts available, with the most expensive costing £14 . 

These were the cheapest though, setting you back £5.60 and £6.25 respectively. 

Sainsbury's 

TU at Sainsbury's has quite a broad range as well - and is selling the same Kane top that we featured above for slightly less at £16 .  

The cheapest we found was this women's England shirt, which costs £6.00 .

For slightly more, you can get a licensed FA shirt for £15 .

We found Aldi had the cheapest shirt available at £4.99 .

The budget supermarket also sells a Scotland version for the same price. 

If a cropped look is more your style, Primark is offering this women's crop top for £5.

There's also this T-shirt for £15 .

A word of warning

One thing to avoid if you're actually going to Germany is buying knock-off replica kits - as they can land you in trouble with the authorities. 

Here's our digital video producer Phoebe Williams to talk you through why... 

UK drivers are losing at least £112m unnecessarily every year due to an avoidable issue, a new study suggests.

Research by the Motor Ombudsman reveals drivers are wasting rubber - and money - by driving on tyres that are inflated below manufacturer-recommended levels.

The ombudsman said that as well as presenting "many hidden dangers", under-inflation means tyres wear out far quicker than they should, reducing their lifespan and leading to more frequent trips to the garage.

Figures from the British Tyre Manufacturers' Association and charity TyreSafe reveal around 57% of cars on UK roads have tyre pressures at 10% less than recommended - equating to around 19 million cars.

The Motor Ombudsman said that with the most commonly seen tyre sizes averaging £85 a tyre, the total bill for the nation's drivers is at least £112m every year.

Its survey of 1,000 UK car drivers also revealed that more than a third of motorists wouldn't feel comfortable topping up the air in their tyres.

The ombudsman's findings have been published as part of its "Make Time for Tyres" campaign.

Bill Fennell, managing director and chief ombudsman, said under-inflated tyres "carry a number of risks and costs". 

"Avoiding any unnecessary expense is especially pertinent with the current financial pressures on the nation's motorists," he said.

Four major mortgage lenders have announced rate increases today, with some by as much as 0.35%. 

Barclays has upped a number of deals by 0.15%, while TSB has increased rates across their residential and Buy to Let ranges by up to 0.35%. 

Smaller increases have been announced by Leeds Building Society , including a 0.6% hike on selected residential products and a 0.20% rise on some shared ownership products. 

Clydesdale Bank has opted for similar increases, upping its 95% LTV Five Year Fee and other fee fixed rate deals by 0.20%

Its exclusive 90% LTV Purchase Two Year Fixed Rate package will also go up by 0.15%. 

Justin Moy, managing director at EHF Mortgages, said the market was "unseasonally bad" and high rights were the "last thing borrowers and the property market need". 

"It feels like one lender has blinked and the rest have followed. Money markets haven't increased excessively in the last week or so, in fact longer swap rates have fallen, so these increases may reflect activity from the end of last week," he told Newspage. 

And, it doesn't look like things are going to be getting better anytime soon. 

Katy Eatenton, a mortgage and protection specialist, said it's looking more likely the Bank of England will opt to hold interest rates at its meeting next week, which will add to the turmoil.

"Rising mortgage rates are sucking the energy out of the property market. This is certainly not the direction of travel we had anticipated for this stage in the year," she added.

"It's looking ever more likely that the base rate will hold next week and that the outlook for borrowers will be roughly as bright as the UK summer." 

The recent E.coli outbreak in the UK could be linked to fresh produce, according to reports. 

At least 37 people have been admitted to hospital with the bacteria since an urgent warning was released a week ago, according to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). 

Owing to the "wide geographic spread of cases", the agency said last week that the outbreak was linked to a nationally distributed food item or multiple food items. 

Now, an industry source has told The Grocer that the Food Standards Agency has focused its investigation on fresh produce in sandwiches and salads. 

It is understood that cheese is not a cause for concern at present. 

Sky News put the claim to the FSA, which said the source of the illness is "most likely linked to one or more food items". 

Darren Whitby, head of incidents and resilience at the FSA, said "extensive food chain analysis" was being carried out to find the cause of the outbreak, adding that staff were working closely with food manufacturers to put control measures in place. 

Updated guidance on how to handle fresh produce

He also updated the FSA's guidance on handling fresh food. 

"We advise consumers that food should be cooked in accordance with the cooking instructions on the product label, to ensure it is safe," he said. 

"Fruit and vegetables should be washed with water before they are eaten to make sure that they are clean. This should be done under a running tap, or in a bowl of fresh water.

"You should not prepare food for others if you have had symptoms, or for 48 hours after symptoms stop."

Who has been affected? 

All the cases recorded in the outbreak involve Shiga toxin-producing E. coli O145 (Stec), with 81 cases in England, 18 in Wales, 13 in Scotland and one person in Northern Ireland who believes they fell ill in England.

Those affected range in age from two to 79, with the majority of cases in young adults. 

E. coli are a diverse group of bacteria that are normally harmless and live in the intestines of humans and animals.

However, some strains produce toxins that can make people very ill, such as Stec, which can cause people to suffer with diarrhoea.

About 50% of cases have reported bloody diarrhoea. Other symptoms, which can last up to two weeks, include stomach cramps and fever.

Stec is often transmitted by eating contaminated food but can also be spread by close contact with an infected person, as well as direct contact with an infected animal or where it lives.

By James Sillars , business news reporter

The FTSE 100 is off to a slow start this morning as investors digest events across the Atlantic.

The US Federal Reserve last night signalled it would make just one interest rate cut this year - disappointing investors who want borrowing costs to come down.

Despite that guidance, bets remain on two US rate cuts this year after inflation figures for May came in flat on the previous month.

As such, the FTSE 100 moved just 0.1% lower at the open amid the conflicting messages.

The interest rate path for the UK was also making noises in the market.

Crest Nicholson, the housebuilder, saw its stock plunge by 11% after issuing a profit warning.

It blamed the lack of a UK interest rate cut for falling demand.

The company cut its dividend after reporting an 88% slump in half-year earnings, warning that annual profits would be hit as a result.

Wizz Air has once again topped the table as the worst airline for flight delays in the UK, new figures show.

Departures with the budget airline from UK airports were an average of 31 minutes and 36 seconds behind schedule last year, according to analysis of Civil Aviation Authority data by the PA news agency.

Though an improvement on 2022, it still meant the carrier had the worst punctuality for UK flights three years in a row.

Wizz Air enjoyed a boost to its passenger numbers in the year to March despite its poor punctuality, however. Figures show it had a record 62 million people use its services, up from 51.5 million the year before.

Turkish Airlines ranked second-worst for punctuality last year, with an average delay of 28 minutes and 36 seconds, followed by Tui (28 minutes and 24 seconds).

At the other end of the scale, Irish carrier Emerald Airlines had the best performance, with its average delay sitting at just 13 minutes and six seconds, while Virgin Atlantic followed closely behind at 13 minutes and 42 seconds.

Wizz Air said the firm made "significant improvements" after experiencing "extraordinary operating challenges" in 2022 - but acknowledged there was "still work to be done".

"Helping our customers reach their destination is our number one priority and we will continue to invest in our service to ensure they get there on time," the spokeswoman said.

This week thousands of football fans are heading to Germany for the first game of the Euros - Germany vs Scotland. 

But did you know there are three items you are legally required to have in your car while travelling in the country? 

You need the same items if you are driving through France as well - without them, you face a fine of around £600.

Drivers must have:

• A first aid kit
• A warning triangle badge 
• One high-vis vest per passenger 

Fans driving from the UK will also need to use headlamp beam deflectors if their cars are right-hand drive. 

The RAC also recommends carrying these products in your car, though they aren't legally required: 

• Fire extinguisher
• Replacement bulbs
• A high-quality torch
• A spare fuel can
• Additional engine oil and water (for topping up)
• An up-to-date road map or satellite navigation system
• Refreshments and plenty of water
• Take extra supplies of medication in case you can't get them abroad
• Photocopies of important documents
• European Health Insurance card

Every Thursday  Savings Champion founder Anna Bowes  gives an insight into the savings market and how to make the most of your money...

Although there was a distinct slowdown in the competition between ISA providers immediately after the end of the ISA season, things appear to be picking up again.

While some of the top fixed-term ISA rates on offer are not quite at the levels they were earlier this year, there has been a bit of a recovery over the past few weeks, which could be as a result of the delay to the anticipated base rate cut.

Whatever the reason, it's great news for savers, especially those who are already fully utilising their personal savings allowance and are therefore looking to shelter some of the interest they earn from the taxman.

Virgin Money is the top fixed-rate ISA available - paying 5.05% tax free, fixed until maturity on 30 June 2025. 

You do need to have a current account with Virgin Money to be eligible to open the Virgin Money 1 Year Fixed Rate Cash ISA Exclusive Issue 11.

But you can open a current account now to be eligible and you don't need to transfer your existing current account over or make any regular payments into the current account. 

It does need to have an active balance, so you'll need to put in at least £1. So, a few things to be aware of and a few hoops to jump through.

The next best thing available to anyone prepared to open an account online is with Castle Trust Bank and is paying 4.87% tax-free/AER.

While the longer-term fixed term ISA rates are lower than the shorter term, the top rates are actually a little higher than they were during the ISA season. 

So as the base rate is expected to fall over the next few months and years, it could still be a good time to lock up some of your cash for the longer term, to hedge against falling interest rates.

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