Office Christmas party etiquette: One in four UK employees have vowed to drink less this year for fear of embarrassing themselves or flirting with a colleague November 26, 2015 Deck the halls and so forth, the Christmas season is upon us, and that can only mean one thing: the City is gearing up for this year’s office Christmas bashes and (for some) the crippling shame that follows them. The office Christmas party is inevitably a messy affair, and it seems UK employees are worried [...]
Man falls to death from fifth floor at Bracken House on Friday Street November 26, 2015 A man has fallen to his death at the City offices of a bank near Cannon Street. The 42-year-old man, an employee at Mizuho Bank, fell from the fifth floor of Mizuho’s London base at Bracken House on Friday Street. City of London police confirmed that emergency services were called to the spot at 4.05pm, [...]
Best Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2015 travel deals and cheap flights: Discounts on ski holidays, Mediterranean cruises London hotels and Los Angeles flights November 26, 2015 The shopping deals we’ve all been waiting for are upon us. Yes, Black Friday is here at last, and the travel industry is getting in on the action. After all, whether you’re planning to brave the crowds of the high street, or the crashing websites of online retailers buckling under the strain, when it’s all [...]
This design may just become London’s newest bridge across the Thames connecting Nine Elms to Pimlico November 26, 2015 A new design has been chosen as the option for a new bridge across the Thames connecting Nine Elms and Pimlico. The pedestrian and cycle bridge designed by Bystrup and Robin Snell & Partners has been crowned the winner of a competition for a new crossing over the capital's river. A panel of judges picked the spindly bridge concept from [...]
One in 10 property workers have been sacked because of their behaviour at the office Christmas party November 26, 2015 NULL
Class action suit being brought against Barclays, UBS, Royal Bank of Scotland and others for conspiring to limit competition November 26, 2015 Big-name banks including Goldman Sachs, Barclays, UBS and the Royal Bank of Scotland have been accused of conspiring to limit competition by a pension fund in the US. The class action lawsuit filed yesterday says that the banks, which also include Bank of America Merrill Lynch, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Credit Suisse Group, BNP Paribas and [...]
Europe’s latest Mars mission is almost ready for take-off November 26, 2015 Europe is preparing to send its latest Mars mission into space, and the craft involved are just about ready for take-off. In March 2016, the European Space Agency (ESA) and Russian space agency (Roscosmos) will launch their joint ExoMars mission from Baikonur in Kazakhstan, with the vehicles sent up aboard Russian Proton rockets. The first of [...]
Apple Black Friday 2015 deals: Best UK sales for cheap iPhones, Macs, iPads, the Apple Watch and more – at Tesco, Currys PCWorld, John Lewis and others November 26, 2015 Apple's not one to enter the Black Friday fray, but that doesn't mean you still can't bag a bargain on iPhones, iPads Macs and more. We've hunted high and low to sniff out the rare treat of saving money when buying something Apple. Here are the bargains we found. iPhone It may not be the newest [...]
Migration figures: Why are people coming to the United Kingdom? November 26, 2015 Net migration to the UK is up, hitting a new record level of 336,000 people, according to figures released today by the Office of National Statistics. That represents an 82,000 rise in overall net migration in the 12 months to June, driven by a rise of 62,000 in immigration to 636,000, and a fall in [...]
Low inflation and falling unemployment mean it will be a bumper Black Friday 2015 UK November 26, 2015 More than a week’s worth of UK online spending in one day – that’s what Black Friday is estimated to bring in. Average weekly online spending in the UK last month was £839.1m. For Black Friday alone it will be close to £1bn according to the Centre for Retail Research. Total Black Friday sales (including [...]