Jeremy Paxman signs three-book deal worth £1m November 30, 2014 The details of Jeremy Paxman's illustrious 42-year career at the BBC will be revealed in a three-book publishing deal worth almost £1m. Through the book deal, which was signed with publisher William Collins, Paxman will reveal details about some of his most famous interviews with politicians. He became known for his direct and at times abrasive [...]
NHS: George Osborne to promise an extra £2bn of funding November 30, 2014 Chancellor George Osborne is expected use his Autumn statement on Wednesday to announce an extra £2bn funding for frontline NHS services. It is anticipated that Osborne will pledge extra funding from April next year, according to the BBC. In a speech to parliament on Wednesday, when he will deliver exact details on its [...]
FaceTime with your bank? Barclays is venturing into video banking for busy customers in major online move November 30, 2014 Barclays is making another major move into digital with the launch of a video banking service that will let customers speak face to face with advisers instead of visiting a bricks and mortar branch. The bank will offer a round the clock service to better fit in with people’s lives in what it says is [...]
Ferguson shooting: Darren Wilson resigns from police department November 30, 2014 The police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black teenager in the Missouri town of Ferguson has resigned. Darren Wilson’s resignation comes after a grand jury’s decision not to indict him for the killing of Michael Brown sparked protests in the US and beyond. A 126 mile, seven-day march from Ferguson to Missouri [...]
A1 reopens as Catterick explosion reported near army garrison’s Marne Barracks in North Yorkshire remains a mystery November 29, 2014 A report of an explosion near Catterick army garrison causing the A1 in North Yorkshire to be closed by police for most of the day remains a mystery as the motorway reopend. A ten mile stretch of the road between junction 51 and junction 56 had been shut down by North Yorkshire police for most [...]
Amazon Black Friday deals deliver busiest day ever as shoppers surge online ahead of Cyber Monday November 29, 2014 It's not even Cyber Monday yet, but Amazon has clocked up its busiest ever day of sales in the UK thanks to Black Friday, selling 64 items every second yesterday. Shoppers ordered more than 5.5 million items such as TVs, tablets and toys with huge price reductions, beating last year’s Black Friday sales of four [...]
Egyptian court dismisses charges against Hosni Mubarak of conspiring to kill protesters in 2011 Arab Spring uprising November 29, 2014 A court in Egypt has dismissed the case against ousted President Hosni Mubarak on charges of conspiring to kill protesters during the Arab Spring uprising in 2011. Mubarak’s former interior minister Habib al-Adly and six other officials also had charges against them dismissed, while the former leader was also cleared of corruption charges related to [...]
Asda’s Black Friday deals attract 2 million shoppers on its busiest day of the year so far November 28, 2014 Asda has pulled in more than two million shoppers on Black Friday, making it the busiest day of the year so far for the supermarket. That’s more than 8,000 sales every minute, or more than 130 every second since it opened its doors at 8am. The Walmart-owned retailer said it sold more than 8,000 TVs within [...]
Apple’s $700bn smash, Black Friday misery: 10 things we learned this week November 28, 2014 1. In the future, cats will change colour when they go near radiation (maybe). Someone’s already written a nursery rhyme about it 2. Londoners take “painting the town red” rather more literally than you might think: by a vast majority, they prefer red wine to any other type, reckons Naked Wines 3. Aviva [...]
Cooper-Hohn divorce has led to Britain’s biggest pay out – here the five largest UK settlements in history November 28, 2014 Hedge fund titan Sir Chris Hohn will have to pay his ex-wife £337m, in what is thought to be the largest ever settlement in a UK divorce case. His estranged wife, Jamie Cooper-Hohn, had been seeking half of Hohn's estimated £700m fortune since the summer, however Hohn offered a quarter. Both parties are thought to [...]