Air India crash: Not easy to ‘accidentally’ cut off fuel switches July 12, 2025 The fuel switches that were cut off before the Air India plane crash are the kind used on every flight, and designed so that this cannot easily “accidentally” happen, an aviation expert has said. The London-bound Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed into a medical college shortly after taking off from Ahmedabad Airport on June 12, killing [...]
Rachel Reeves’ concierge service aimed at luring investors July 12, 2025 Chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to launch a “concierge service” for wealthy individuals as part of an effort to lure investors to expand in the UK. During electoral campaigns, Labour hopefuls said they would put wealth creation at the heart of their mission in government. Now Rachel Reeves is set to provide advice to foreign [...]
Wimbledon, Euros and Test cricket set to boost pubs and supermarkets July 12, 2025 Pubs and supermarkets are bracing for a bumper weekend thanks to the heatwave and a deluge of live sport on TV including Wimbledon finals, Test cricket and the Lionesses. A British and Irish Lions tour match, England and Wales rugby internationals, other Women’s Euros fixtures, Tour de France cycling and a trilogy fight between Katie [...]
HSBC splashes $5m on new London wealth centre despite non-dom exodus July 12, 2025 HSBC has opened a new wealth centre in the heart of London to cater to high-earning customers in defiance of fears of an exodus of wealthy investors from the UK. Britain’s most valuable bank has leased two floors of a fifteen-storey tower in Piccadilly, formerly the home of British magazine The Economist, in a $5m [...]
Crystal Palace face CAS appeal after being kicked out of Europa League July 11, 2025 Crystal Palace must take their case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport if they want to play in the Europa League after being kicked out by Uefa over multi-club conflicts. European football’s governing body decreed on Friday that Palace and Lyon breached rules on multi-club ownership because of their common links to US investor [...]
Lando Norris sells side hustle to Adrian Newey-backed group July 11, 2025 McLaren F1 star Lando Norris has sold a majority stake in Quadrant, the entertainment and gaming brand he founded, to a company backed by Adrian Newey. London-based Veloce Media Group has agreed a deal which will see Norris remain the second-largest shareholder in Quadrant with a stake of more than 20 per cent. Quadrant was [...]
BT powers ahead as UK tech services offer rare growth signal July 11, 2025 BT Group has become one of the standout performers of the FTSE 100 this year, with its share price climbing over 34 per cent since January, and hitting a near five-year high. The telecoms and broadband giant is being closely watched as it ramps up fibre roll-out, explores strategic moves around its Openreach infrastructure arm, [...]
Labour’s pre-loved tech charter won’t fix the UK’s digital divide, say experts July 11, 2025 The UK government’s new ‘IT reuse for good’ charter has drawn corporate backing, and a chorus of applause from Whitehall to Vodafone HQ for tackling major issues of digital exclusion and electronic waste. But donating devices is not a digital inclusion strategy – and certainly not enough to fix a broken, unequal system. The charter, [...]
Meta-backed fellowship puts open source in the firing line July 11, 2025 The UK government has launched a $1 million open source AI fellowship funded by Meta through the Alan Turing Institute, inviting the nation’s top AI engineers to spend 12 months building public-sector AI tools. The scheme focuses on open-source AI models like Meta’s Llama 4 to create applications for everything from speeding up planning approvals [...]
Bank of England interest rate cut ‘almost certain’ after poor growth July 11, 2025 Fresh growth figures have fuelled speculation of an August interest rate cut in a bid to give the waning UK economy a shot of life. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed on Friday the UK economy shrunk for the second consecutive month with a 0.1 per cent contraction in May. Deutsche Bank’s chief economist [...]