Brussels attack: Belgian police release images of deadly Zaventem Airport attack suspect March 22, 2016 Belgian police have issued a wanted notice for a man suspected of involvement in this morning's deadly bomb attacks at the Zaventem Airport in Brussels. They issued a photograph of a man, dressed in white and wearing a hat, as he pushed a luggage trolley alongside two others. In a press conference, police said they believed the [...]
Independent journalists facing pay cuts of up to 50 per cent if they switch from newspaper to online-only title March 22, 2016 Independent newspaper journalists switching from print to digital are facing pay cuts of up to 50 per cent. The National Union of Journalists has said it is "concerned for the future" of The Independent, which is moving this week to become digital-only. And The Guardian today reports that some journalists are being asked to take pay cuts of [...]
London mayoral election 2016: Conservative candidate Zac Goldsmith and Labour candidate Sadiq Khan confirm they will step down as MPs if elected March 22, 2016 Conservative mayoral candidate Zac Goldsmith and his Labour rival Sadiq Khan have both confirmed that they won't be following in current London mayor Boris Johnson's footsteps – at least when it comes to having both an office in City Hall and the House of Commons. Both Goldsmith and Khan said today that they intend to [...]
Budget 2016: Chancellor George Osborne says he is “sorry” Iain Duncan Smith resigned and is prepared to “listen and learn” from mistakes March 22, 2016 Chancellor George Osborne has said that he is "sorry" that former work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith resigned after last week's Budget and that he is prepared to "listen and learn" from his mistakes. Addressing MPs in the House of Commons earlier today, Osborne said: "I am sorry that my right honourable friend chose to [...]
Uber’s giving £10k to hackers with a bug bounty program to find security flaws March 22, 2016 Uber is offering up to $10,000 to hackers. No, it's not some sort of blackmail, it's for the friendly sort who can spot security flaws in their technology meaning they can fix it before any not so friendly hackers do. The so-called bug bounty program offers a tidy cash sum to anyone who can track down bugs in their code as [...]
EasyJet owner Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou threatens Fastjet with legal action over licence breaches March 22, 2016 Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, owner of the Easy group of brands – which includes Easyjet, has contacted the board of African budget airline Fastjet over a number of licence breaches. EasyGroup is the brand owner and licensor of Fastjet. In a letter to Fastjet chair Colin Child, Haji-Ioannou outlined a number of concerns, including the fact that since the [...]
Richard Branson has just launched a £1m competition with Virgin Media Business to find Britain’s best startups March 22, 2016 Straighten those ties, polish those shoes and sharpen those power point skills. Richard Branson has just launched a competition to find Britain's best businesses, and there's £1m worth of prizes up for grabs. VOOM 2016 is the UK's most high-value pitching competition. Run by Virgin Media Business, the initiative allows British entrepreneurs to sell their ideas [...]
Saudi Arabia will go ahead with production freeze deal in April without Iran, sending the oil price up 50 per cent in just two months March 22, 2016 Saudi Arabia has signalled it will go ahead with a deal with Russia and other Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) members to freeze production in April despite Opec rebel Iran vowing to continue to increase output. The deal, which already includes Venezuela and Qatar, is scheduled to be finalised at a meeting in Doha [...]
UK workers much less interested in salary when job hunting than their global counterparts and much more interested in the job description and type of work March 22, 2016 You may think you can lure top talent to your company by offering them wads of cash, but, if you're recruiting for your UK office, you might be disappointed. A study out today by ManpowerGroup Solutions has discovered that jobseekers in the UK are among the least likely to be motivated by salary, with only a quarter [...]
Royal Bank of Scotland pays dividend access scheme fee to the government, clearing the way for payments to ordinary shareholders March 22, 2016 Royal Bank of Scotland has paid £1.2bn to the government, clearing the way for dividend payments to ordinary shareholders and abolishing its so-called dividend access share arrangement. The bank, still 72.6 per cent owned by the taxpayer, made the deal with the government to give it priority over dividends after its £45.8b bailout during the 2007-09 financial crisis. RBS had announced it [...]