Abellio bus route 484 crashes into front garden of Lewisham home August 18, 2015 A bus has driven into the front garden of a home in Lewisham, south east London, this morning. The incident took place at around 6:30am on Vicars Hill, SE13, a police spokeswoman told City A.M. The bus was travelling along the 484 route. No injuries have been reported, although London Ambulance Service is [...]
Recruitment, tourism and marketing – these are the professions with the worst bosses August 18, 2015 The country's worst bosses can be found in the recruitment industry, according to a survey by Approved Index. By asking almost 1,400 employees across a range of industries about their relationships with their bosses, they discovered that this is the profession where people are most likely to quit because of a bad manager. [...]
Four secrets of the happiest Londoners: The perfect salary, commute time, hours of sleep and morning alarm time August 18, 2015 Londoners may be accused of being a miserable bunch (and tourists standing on the wrong side of the escalator are often blamed), but there are a few things that will perk us right up. Surprisingly, getting up at 5am is one of them. Or that's according to findings of research into the habits of 12,000 [...]
Greeks work longer hours than any other Europeans August 18, 2015 Think “lazy Greeks” and “hard-working Germans”? Well, put your stereotypes away, because it turns out Greece is actually the country with longest average working hours in Europe. Germans, meanwhile, work fewer hours than any other Europeans, according data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Greece may have suffered bad press recently, but [...]
Bank of England analysts believe Twitter could help predict a bank run, early signs of unemployment data and market movements August 18, 2015 Bank of England analysts believe Twitter and other social media give “much potential for central banks” to predict market movements, indicate unemployment data ahead of time and even give signs of an impending bank run. In the run-up to the Scottish independence referendum a team of analysts and IT experts within the BoE built [...]
“Summer boom” in upmarket central London lettings as Mayfair has post-election bounce August 18, 2015 It's not just super-rich property buyers who breathed a sigh of relief when the result of the General Election was announced: new figures suggest landlords were also pretty relieved, after corporate relocation enquiries for homes in Mayfair jumped 40 per cent in the past three months. Read more: One estate agent is enticing the super-rich [...]
Bangkok blast Second explosion goes off as Thai government releases images of suspect in Ratchaprasong attack, which killed 20 and wounded 120 August 18, 2015 Update: A second explosion has been reported in Bangkok, less than a day after the first blast went off. A bomb is reported to have been thrown off Sathorn pier in Bangkok at around 1:20pm local time. It bounced on the water and exploded there, local media is reporting. Police have confirmed there are [...]
Labour leadership race: Jeremy Corbyn and Andy Burnham pledge to work together while Yvette Cooper and Andy Burnham tell each other to withdraw from the contest August 18, 2015 Is there a bromance blossoming among Labour leadership candidates? After Andy Burnham used a speech to praise Jeremy Corbyn and offer him a role in "rebuilding" the party, Corbyn has said he could work with Burnham, too. Speaking to BBC's Newsnight, Corbyn said: “Obviously there has to be a party of all the talents and [...]
Train fare rises 2016: Here’s how much train ticket prices and your season ticket will go up by August 18, 2015 The cost of commuting will rise next year, but in a rare bit of good news for anyone who catches the train to work, that increase will be at the second-lowest rate in nearly two decades. The price of rail travel will go up by just one per cent in 2016, in line with the RPI [...]
Glencore August 18, 2015 The figures Net income of $780m (£498m), a sharp contrast to the $2bn it made in the same period last year Why it's interesting Crumbling global commodity prices have consistently pushed miners such as Glencore to the bottom of In recent weeks, tumbling global commodity prices, have consistently pushed miners such as Glencore to the [...]