Crossrail workers find mass burial site containing victims of “catastrophic event” the Great Plague of 1665 at Liverpool Street August 12, 2015 Crossrail archeologists have uncovered a mass burial site at Liverpool Street containing the skeletons of victims from the Great Plague of 1665. A mass burial site containing 30 bodies was unearthed during excavation of the old Bedlam hospital ground at the site. A headstone found nearby with the date 1665, and the individuals [...]
Your work-life balance is getting seriously out of hand: A million small business owners can’t afford to take a single day off work this summer August 12, 2015 Heard the one about work-life balance? You know, how you get to spend time with your friends and family and enjoy the summer while it lasts? Probably not if you're a small business owner or sole trader. A major new study of more than one million people found that a fifth of Britain's entrepreneurs [...]
Pearson sells stake in The Economist Group for £469m August 12, 2015 Pearson has agreed to sell its 50 per cent stake in The Economist Group for £469m just weeks after offloading the Financial Times. Italian investment group Exor take on 27.8 per cent of The Economist's ordinary shares for £227.5m and all of the B special shares for £59.5m. Pearson's remaining ordinary shares will be [...]
Google’s transition to Alphabet can help teach startups their corporate governance ABCs August 11, 2015 If it isn’t code for job losses, the announcement of a company restructure is normally reserved for the back of the business pages. When Larry Page posted a blog outlining the creation of Alphabet, an umbrella holding company to look over Google’s sprawling empire of businesses, however, it set newsrooms and investors alight. [...]
Milking it: Morrisons launches premium brand to “directly” support dairy farmers August 11, 2015 Morrisons is looking to herd off criticism from dairy farmers over the price of its milk by launching a new brand that it claims will “directly” support the trade. Morrisons Milk for Farmers will launch this autumn, sitting alongside the supermarket's standard range. This brand however will cost 10p per litre more than [...]
Bethnal Green bomb: Second World War device “safely removed” by army, evacuated residents will “soon” be allowed to return August 11, 2015 Update: Military personnel have safely removed an unexploded Second World War bomb from the area this afternoon. The 500lb device was found by contractors working on a building site on Temple Street on Monday afternoon, prompting emergency services to put a 150 metre safety cordon in place. Around 150 people were evacuated and will [...]
Company claiming to block nuisance calls fined £50,000… for nuisance calls August 11, 2015 A firm claiming to help stop people from receiving nuisance calls has been fined £50,000 – for making nuisance calls. Point One Marketing, which trades as “Stop the Calls”, was marketing a call-blocking device for phones, as well as a service that removes people from a cold call database. But an investigation by [...]
TfL Tube strike: Night Tube talks between TfL and unions RMT, TSSA, Aslef and Unite adjourned until Wednesday August 11, 2015 Crunch talks over the Night Tube will not resume until Wednesday at the earliest, as the threat of another Tube strike looms over Londoners. UPDATE: RMT confirms two new 24 hour strike dates Representatives of the four unions – RMT, TSSA, Aslef and Unite – met with Transport for London bosses at Acas yesterday [...]
TfL Tube strike: Talks begin between unions and transport bosses to avert more action over Night Tube August 11, 2015 A fresh attempt to break the deadlock between transport unions and TfL over the Night Tube dispute will begin today in an effort to avoid yet another Tube strike. UPDATE: These are the new Tube strike dates The two sides will meet at conciliatory service Acas today, with the unions threatening yet more industrial [...]
Fragments of Russian missile system found at MH17 crash site August 11, 2015 Fragments of a Russian surface-to-air missile system have been found by the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, Dutch prosecutors have said. The Dutch Safety Board (DSB) and the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) said possible parts of a Buk missile system had been found in eastern Ukraine “and are in possession of the [...]
