General Election 2015: Milifandom vs Cameronettes – who is winning the social media battle? (Answer: It’s much less tight than the real thing) April 22, 2015 Something is happening on Twitter…. are politicians becoming… cool? Possibly. It seems to have started with one Labour-loving AS level student's ambition yesterday to launch a campaign fighting the view that Ed Miliband's image is a problem. https://twitter.com/twcuddleston/status/590583801698463744 Her plan was good. Almost too good: https://twitter.com/Sidra_h92/status/590797834745675776 https://twitter.com/alexshilling/status/590793495692124160 https://twitter.com/twcuddleston/status/590795472962527234 https://twitter.com/twcuddleston/status/590805244206047232 [...]
Hatton Garden heist images revealed by police April 22, 2015 The Flying Squad has released the first set of images showing how they believe the Hatton Garden jewel heist was carried out. The images include a picture of the vehicle and the scene the officers found when they arrived at Hatton Garden Safe Deposit The police believe the hole into the vault was [...]
Merrill Lynch International hit with record £13.2m fine as the FCA slams the “severity” of its misconduct April 22, 2015 Merrill Lynch International (MLI) has been fined £13.2m for failing to properly report a number of transactions between 2007 and 2014. This is the highest fine imposed by the FCA for this type of failing. The watchdog said the amount levelled at the firm “reflects the severity of MLI's misconduct, failure to adequately address [...]
Man vs machine: Man wins after shooting computer eight times after “several months” of technical glitches April 22, 2015 You've just finished typing up some important work and your computer goes on the blink – the dreaded blue screen maybe, or the dastardly spinning wheel of doom. You try using Ctrl+Alt+Delete but nothing. What do you do next? Shout at the screen for a bit? Pound the keyboard? Shake the monitor? Go and make [...]
General Election 2015: Grant Shapps denies Wikipedia sock-puppet claims, saying he “was elsewhere” when changes were made April 22, 2015 Conservative party chairman Grant Shapps has denied claims that he edited entries about himself and rival MPs on Wikipedia. Rumours that he was a “sock-puppet” – using a false alias to spread misinformation – have been circulating around the blogosphere for many years. But they resurfaced yesterday when the Guardian reported that Wikipedia had blocked [...]
General Election 2015: Bookie claims Ed Miliband will (still) be in Number 10 when Hillary Clinton becomes US President April 21, 2015 This bookie is offering odds of 1/1 for Hillary Clinton to be US President. Not only that, Betway definitely expects Ed Miliband to be in 10 Downing Street when she is inaugurated, offering 3/1 odds that he'll be Prime Minister when she's sworn in on January 20, 2017 – despite fears that a hung parliament [...]
London Marathon 2015: Betfair wants to keep things interesting (and charitable) by getting you to bet on your finish time April 21, 2015 Running the London Marathon on Sunday and worried the 26.2 mile race could have its moments of tedium? Perhaps placing a bet on yourself could keep things interesting for the three-to-four hour duration? Betfair is allowing runners who love the thrill of a bet to “back themselves”. The bookie is offering a £20 bet on [...]
Did we just make voter history? This chart suggests more people applied to vote yesterday than in recent memory April 21, 2015 Could yesterday turn out to be the biggest day for UK voter applications in recent history? Certainly it was the biggest day for this General Election. Around 485, 000 people applied for registration on April 20 – the deadline for submissions ahead of May 7. Of that, 469,000 came from online applicants, while 16,000 [...]
Bride Gabriella Saunders steals £22,000 from City colleagues to pay for “lavish” wedding and honeymoon April 21, 2015 They say getting married is one of the most expensive things you can do – prices have crept up again and the average cost of a British wedding has reached £20,500, according to a recent survey. But few of us would go down the route Gabriella (Yinka) Saunders took. She stole more than £22,000 from [...]
House of Fraser posts record sales in first year under Nanjing Xinjiekou as it ramps up international expansion April 21, 2015 House of Fraser's new owners will be toasting their decision to acquire the business, which has revealed record like-for-likes for the year. The figures Like-for-like sales at the department store were up 5.8 per cent, with gross total value (GTV) rising to £1.3bn. Profits rose £29.6m to £460.2m while adjusted EBITDA rose seven per [...]
