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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Is China blocking Gmail? Chinese Google users reportedly cut off

December 29, 2014

The Great Firewall could be blocking Gmail. China is famed for its internet censorship; it limits or prevents access to a range of websites and services, including Facebook and Twitter. Now it seems the new superpower is blocking Google's email service too. On Friday, thousands of Gmail addresses were cut off, according to [...]
Inventor James Dyson now owns more land than the Queen after buying Cranwell and Roxholme estate

December 29, 2014

James Dyson, the man who removed the bag from the humble vacuum cleaner, is hoovering up land in Britain. Dyson, a self-made billionaire, has bought a 3,000 acre estate in Lincolnshire, which brings his estimated land holdings to 25,000 acres (or 14,204 football pitches), more than the Queen’s private estate, Sandringham, which is 20,000 [...]
UK immigration: Ukip councillor Trevor Shonk says “overload” has made the country racist

December 28, 2014

Overloaded UK immigration has caused the country to become racist, according to a Ukip councillor. Trevor Shonk has roles on both Kent county council and Ramsgate city council and said the immigration policies of both Labour and the Conservatives had led to racist sentiment in the UK. Speaking to the BBC, Shonk said: [...]
AirAsia flight QZ8501 goes missing during flight from Malaysia to Singapore with 162 people onboard, including one British national

December 28, 2014

An AirAsia plane, flight QZ8501, has gone missing en-route from Indonesia to Singapore with 162 passengers onboard. One of the passengers is a British national and the next of kin have been informed, according to the Foreign Office. After hours of searching, rescue operations have now been suspended due to adverse weather conditions. The [...]
City Link: Union calls on Vince Cable to nationalise company and save 2,000 jobs

December 28, 2014

Vince Cable has been urged to step in to save 2,000 people from losing their jobs on new year’s eve. The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) said that it had been infromed by administrators that over 2,000 workers of stricken parcel delivery firm City Link may face redundency and urged [...]
UK house prices 2014: Which area saw the most growth?

December 28, 2014

After a roller-coaster year for house prices the results are in: the London borough of Greenwich is the place for price rises. According to data from Halifax, house prices in Greenwich rose 24.6 per cent over the course of 2014, far above the national average of 8.5 per cent and almost twice that of the [...]
Where could you buy a house for your salary in the UK? Use our property price calculator to find out how much real estate you can afford

December 23, 2014

Click on the buttons in the top right to reveal the layers Inside every Briton is a property investor trying to get out. Our neighbours in continental Europe love to rent, but an English person’s home is his or her castle. There is just one barrier to this dream of home-ownership: house prices have risen [...]
Christmas trends: Turkey sales up 163 per cent but wine loses its sparkle

December 23, 2014

The economic downturn had many effects on the UK, but it didn’t manage to curb Christmas gluttony. And this isn’t just any gluttony, it’s an increased need for kilograms of fresh, whole turkeys.Last year we spent £38m on Christmas bird, an increase of 163 per cent over 2008’s figure of £14.4m. Even adjusting for inflation, [...]
Labour support in Scotland falls to half that of the SNP

December 22, 2014

North of Hadrian’s wall, Labour could be in for a shellacking. A new poll by Survation has revealed that support for Scottish Labour has fallen to around half of that enjoyed by the SNP. The poll, for Monday’s Daily Record, revealed that 24 per cent of Scots plan to vote for Labour in the 2015 [...]
Billy cycling

December 22, 2014

The Elephant and Castle roundabout is infamous among cyclists. In 2013, the last year for which we have complete data, there were 15 incidents involving cyclists on or next to the junction. In May last year, Abdelkhalak Lahyani, a married man of 47, was knocked from his bike as he cycled to work at the [...]

‘National scandal’: Record-high shoplifting driven by repeat offenders

Italy and UK risk driving Formula 1 away with misguided tax raids

Why the Norwegian Arctic is the best place to see the Northern Lights

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