In the last days of Christmas, Asda gave to me: £4m investment into customer service December 17, 2015 Getting stressed about Christmas shopping? Asda thinks it might have the solution. The Walmart-owned supermarket has just ploughed a further £4m into its customer service department for the last two weeks ahead of the big day, hoping to take the fuss out of the festive season. The company has deployed 8,000 staff as "Go-Getters for Forgetters", [...]
Brazil is banning WhatsApp for the next 48 hours December 17, 2015 Brazil has blocked WhatsApp across the entire country for the next two days, for failure to comply with a court order in an ongoing criminal case. Brazilian phone company association SindiTelebrasil received the order to shut the text service down on Wednesday afternoon. Access to the messaging service was cut off at midnight local time and will be blocked for [...]
Liverpool Street signal failure causing severe delays on London Overground, Stansted Express, Greater Anglia December 17, 2015 If you've managed to dodge an alcohol-induced headache this morning, a transport-inspired one might be about to kick in instead. A signal failure at Liverpool Street was this morning causing severe delays on the London Overground, Stansted Express and other mainline services. On the London Overground, commuters travelling in from Hackney Downs faced major disruption while [...]
Donald Trump spokesman slams Alex Salmond as “has-been” with “overinflated ego” after losing wind farm appeal December 16, 2015 Presidential hopeful Donald Trump might have made friends with Daily Mail columnist Katie Hopkins, but it seems his love affair with former First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond is rather less emphatic. A spokesman for Trump this afternoon slammed the MP for Gordon as a "has-been and totally irrelevant", adding he had an "overinflated ego", after [...]
Saharan dust storm to hit London tomorrow: Defra warns of risk to children, elderly people and adults with lung and heart problems December 16, 2015 Brace yourselves, Londoners: a dust storm is coming. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has issued a warning that air pollution could be moderate or high as dust from the Sahara is expected to blow across parts of England and Wales. Children, elderly people and adults with lung and heart problems have been [...]
Man killed after being hit by a train at Edmonton Green December 16, 2015 A man has died after being hit by a train in Edmonton Green this morning. The incident occurred earlier this morning and emergency services including London Ambulance and the British Transport Police were called to the scene. Police confirmed the unnamed man had died from his injuries by mid-morning. A man was treated by @Ldn_Ambulance but has sadly [...]
Bonmarche’s share price plummets as chief exec Beth Butterwick leaves for Karen Millen, retailer issues profits warning December 16, 2015 Bonmarche's share price plummeted more than 22 per cent this morning, as the women's retailer revealed its chief executive was stepping down amid a profit warning. Beth Butterwick is leaving the firm after four years to take up the helm at Karen Millen. She is credited with having turned Bonmarche around from its dark days as [...]
RBS’ Williams & Glyn trade sale (or IPO) to kick-start next year December 16, 2015 Santander UK or Virgin Money could be planning to buy the Williams & Glyn business from Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) after the taxpayer backed bank said it would begin the sale process in the first half of next year. There has been no formal offer made for Williams & Glyn by either UK challenger, which [...]
Hold onto your hat: It’s Saxo Bank’s outrageous predictions for 2016 including the oil price, the US presidential campaign, euros vs dollars, Brazil, Russia and the end of the luxury sector December 16, 2015 Bored by predictions for 2016 that tentatively forecast interest rate rises and a slight dampening of the property market? Want something that will really make you prepare for the worst (or best) case scenarios out there? Well hold onto your hat, because it's Saxo Bank's annual outrageous predictions for the year ahead, and they are just [...]
Rolls-Royce cuts senior management layer as chief executive Warren East tries to steady the firm December 16, 2015 Troubled engineering firm Rolls-Royce is to strip out an entire layer of its senior management team – resulting in the departure of two executives – as part of plans to cut costs and get the business back on track. The business, whose share price is down 37 per cent for the year, will cut its aerospace and land & sea divisions. [...]
