The new season of the BBC’s The Apprentice is back this Thursday (Wednesdays have been fired, remember?) and people are already avidly assessing this year’s line-up of ambitious, talented yet oh-so-modest future business stars. Inspiring as the candidates are, however, we’re currently more interested in trying to work out exactly where the “Apprentice house” for this year’s show is located. coc

This will be welcome news to borrowers who now have the chance to save money on monthly mortgage repayments. Those on tracker mortgages will be the immediate winners, with the Council for Mortgage Lenders calculating that on an average mortgage of £114,000, the cut would be worth about £15 a month. While fixed rate mortgage