By: Billy Ehrenberg

Billy Ehrenberg is a Data Journalist and Content Developer at City A.M. He can be contacted at billy.ehrenberg@cityam.com. He is particularly passionate about data visualisation and telling stories with numbers.

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Jeremy Clarkson punch fracas: Row compared to Jimmy Savile by BBC executive

March 15, 2015

A BBC executive has apparently compared Jeremy Clarkson’s punch heard round the world with the Jimmy Savile scandal. The executive was responding to several high-profile comments in support of Clarkson, from supporters such as the Prime Minister and the former culture secretary, Maria Millar. The comments by the senior exec., who remains unnamed, will do [...]
General Election 2015: Farage opens the way for a deal with the Tories if Cameron agrees to an EU referendum in 2015

March 15, 2015

Ukip could offer to support a minority Conservative government on key policies like the budget – if David Cameron’s party agrees to stage a referendum on the UK’s EU membership by the end of 2015. The Telegraph is publishing extracts from Nigel Farage’s memoirs – entitled Purple Revolution – in which the Ukip leader rules [...]
General Election 2015: Tony Blair adds to Labour warchest to help Miliband fight the Unions

March 15, 2015

Tony Blair has flung himself back into the political fray, after it was revealed he organised a deal to secure Labour up to £1m of funding if it gets on the wrong side of its Unite donors. Blair set up a dinner at his home last week, at which Hull football club’s chairman, Assem Allam, [...]
Two-tier cocaine market gathers pace as drug grows in popularity

March 13, 2015

There was a time when cocaine was a businessman’s drug: taken by the wealthy as they compared eggshell-blue business cards or used by celebrities following the rich and hedonistic path. According to a report by the government’s Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), now the drug is more ubiquitous; it has pervaded many [...]
Wetherspoons profits drop: Pub chain looks for new weapons in push against supermarket price war

March 13, 2015

JD Wetherspoon could be a victim of the supermarket price war. To fight the discounters, the pub chain offers competitive prices for breakfasts and Lavazza coffees – of which it has already sells 50m cups a year- between certain hours. It also sells 24m breakfasts a year and hopes to triple the sales of both [...]
General Election 2015: Ed Miliband promises to cut energy prices before winter returns

March 13, 2015

Labour will give Ofgem the power to enforce energy price reductions if it wins the general election. Ed Milliband will promise today that his party will cut energy bills by up to 10 per cent by the end of the year, and will empower Ofgem, the energy sector regulator, to review prices by the end [...]
Chinese government restrictions failing to curb Bitcoin use

March 12, 2015

China is going mad for Bitcoin, according to a new report by Goldman Sachs. Despite the government's measures to restrict use of the currency 80 per cent of Bitcoin volume is now driven by the Chinese Yuan. The next biggest driver of transactions is the US dollar, followed by the Euro. The bank isn’t alone [...]
Morrisons share price falls as it announces 23 store closures after losses mount and sales drop

March 12, 2015

A bad morning for Morrisons. The supermarket announced it will close 23 stores and cutting its future dividend pay-out after reporting a large full-year loss and falling quarterly sales. Shares in the retailer opened one per cent down this morning. The trading environment is a tough one, Morrisons said, and it isn’t expected to get [...]
Electric cars and new fuels could slash costs of driving and add £5bn to UK GDP by 2030 – Cambridge Econometrics study

March 11, 2015

Motorists could save £960 a year on fuel costs by 2030 if they give up on petrol and switch to electric cars and GDP could jump by £5bn if low-carbon vehicles are embraced. A move away from hydrocarbons could also mean a 40 per cent drop in oil imports by the same year. According to [...]
London house prices: Foxtons share price dips as slowing luxury market takes its toll

March 11, 2015

The figures Upmarket estate agent Foxtons had a topsy-turvy year in 2014, with the gradual slowing in London house price growth dragging down its share price. Earlier in the year when prices were still rising fast the skies were only blue. Chief executive Nic Budden said it best: last year was a year of "contrasting [...]

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