The year in Facebook: The UK general election, Labour leadership elections, and the Paris attacks December 9, 2015 NULL
Oxford is where the UK’s most motivated and hard-working people are found December 9, 2015 Of all the cities in the UK, nowhere is more dedicated to hard work than Oxford, according to a new study by Xactly. By asking 1,500 employed people from cities around the country whether they would carry on working even if they didn't need to, they found that 28 per cent definitely would. But in [...]
Forget “unicorns” and “disruption”? New tool PitchGlitch hopes to banish tech buzzwords and jargon from startup pitches December 9, 2015 If you’re sick of hearing about “disruption”, “game-changing” or “unicorns”, there’s a new tech jargon-busting tool for you. Just type the offending sentences into PitchGlitch’s online tool and press the big pink “disrupt” button, and the banned jargon will be struck through with a red pen, tallying up the total number of “glitches” or buzzwords [...]
Tottenham Hotspur vice-president David Pearl is thinking about opening the Hatton Garden heist museum December 9, 2015 Property mogul, and the vice-president of Tottenham Hotspur football club, David Pearl has said he is considering opening a museum on the site of the Hatton Garden jewellery heist. Pearl's property company Structadene bought the leasehold to the 1,300 sq ft offices at 88-90 Hatton Garden in October, when it was put up for sale by Hoffman Partners, on behalf the liquidators Streets SPW. [...]
Britain’s biggest buy-to-let investors Fergus and Judith Wilson sell up £250m Kent property portfolio December 9, 2015 The most notorious buy-to-let investors in Britain have given up a portfolio of properties worth more than a quarter-of-a-billion pounds. The empire of tycoons Fergus and Judith Wilson stretches across Ashford, Maidstone and Folkestone in Kent, but the couple have sold the lot – 900 properties – to Arab investors, the Financial Times reports. One hundred of the homes [...]
Poultry market set to suffer following US avian flu outbreak December 9, 2015 Christmas is nearly here, but high turkey prices could end up spoiling the fun for some. The cost of the festive bird has been pushed higher by an outbreak of avian flu that occurred in the US earlier this year, and this is likely to impact global trade of turkey, according to the FT. During [...]
Dubai’s Landmark Group dumps Trump home range from shops across Middle-East December 9, 2015 A Dubai-based retailer has dumped a range of Donald Trump's products from its shelves in shops across the Middle East after the Presidential hopeful said all Muslims should be banned from entering the US. "In light of the recent statements made by the presidential candidate in the US media, we have suspended sale of all products [...]
Virgin Atlantic raises £220m from mortgaging its Heathrow landing slots December 9, 2015 Virgin has raised £220m in debt in an innovative deal that will see the airline use its Heathrow landing slots to secure the senior notes. For the deal Virgin has created a new subsidiary, Virgin Atlantic International Ltd, which will hold the majority of its landing slots at Heathrow, effectively mortgaging them by paying a dividend to outside investors. Virgin is the third [...]
End of austerity? Not according to Cambridge Dictionaries’ people’s word of the year 2015 December 9, 2015 If you thought it was the end of austerity, think again. It's the word people searched for most often and most regularly on Cambridge Dictionaries online and has been crowned "people's" word of the year by their researchers. It was apparently the "clear front runner", appearing on its weekly most searched list at five separate times throughout [...]
Big Tobacco firms Philip Morris, British American Tobacco and Imperial Tobacco take up arms against UK government’s plain packaging legislation December 9, 2015 Major tobacco firms are taking up arms against the UK government’s bid to remove all branding from cigarette packages in a landmark hearing opening in London tomorrow that’s set to have a domino effect across the world. Philip Morris, British American Tobacco, Imperial Tobacco and Japan Tobacco International are suing the British government for infringing their [...]