European shares close lower A number of disappointing company results – from brewer Carlsberg, Austrian brickmaker Wienerberger and insurer Admiral – helped send stock markets into negative territory. Investors were also nervous ahead of the latest US Federal Reserve minutes, and what they might hint about the course of interest ... Read More »
Thursday’s Bank of England (BOE) announcement has left analysts contemplating what it could mean for the U.K. property market, which has seen strong price gains in recent years. Homeowners are also closely watching what the rate cut could mean for home loans, with tracker mortgages – where the interest rate ... Read More »
Economy The Bank of England has cut interest rates from 0.5% to a record low of 0.25%amid uncertainty over the Brexit process and worries about productivity and economic growth. It’s the first cut since 2009. The Bank has also announced a range of measures to stimulate the economy and made ... Read More »
Britain’s Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has published the latest data on deaths during or following police contact, just as the Black Lives Matter movement formally launches in the UK. The annual IPCC report examines the period between April 1, 2015 and March 31, 2016. It found there were 14 ... Read More »
The automatic door malfunction on the set of Star Wars: The Force Awakens that left actor Harrison Ford with a broken leg — among other injuries — and an extended recovery vacation could have been a lot worse. The Disney-owned Foodles Production, which built the hydraulic door that caused the ... Read More »
Public Health England is concerned the outbreak is being linked to supermarket salads. The outbreak has left 62 people needing 62 people across the UK. It is being linked to imported rocket salad from Mediterranean countries. GEETTY – STOCK IMAGE WARNING: Health experts are alarmed after two people die Worldwide ... Read More »
Britain is paying the price for a high level of inequality and a chronic lack of investment in education which have prompted a disillusioned population to vote to leave the European Union, Credit Suisse Chief Executive Tidjane Thiam said on Sunday. Britain voted in a referendum on June 23 to ... Read More »
Britain must leave the EU to stop immigration having a devastating impact on schools, Priti Patel, a Tory minister and leading Brexit campaigner, will say on Wednesday. Patel, a member of the Vote Leave campaign, said class sizes were already overstretched with an 8% increase over the last year in ... Read More »
A project helping disadvantaged UK pupils go to US universities has seen undergraduates accepted for courses starting in September 2016 at all of the prestigious Ivy League colleges. Between them, the 66 state-school pupils will receive scholarships worth $17m (£12m) from US universities. The numbers of UK students in US ... Read More »
Boeing Co (BA.N) is set to win a 2-billion-pound ($2.92 billion) contract from the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) for new Apache helicopters, the Telegraph reported. The MoD has decided to give Boeing a 50-aircraft contract, including servicing, and the announcement could come as early as July, the newspaper said. ... Read More »
State-backed Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS.L) is axing almost 600 jobs in its UK retail bank, according to sources familiar with the situation, in the latest round of job cuts and branch closures at the lender. All the employees impacted work in the bank’s retail network in England and most ... Read More »
Curating a creative space needn’t be pricey and inaccessible, as these innovative bloggers prove. Hannah in The House Hannah In The House was established in 2010. After completing a degree in decorative arts, and working in the interiors industry for 10 years, Hannah created her blog as a personal outlet ... Read More »
