Oil price spike to push up airline fares in long-term, warns Willie Walsh July 11, 2022 THE HIGHER price of oil will be reflected in increased airline fares, the boss of the international industry body warned yesterday. “Oil is the single biggest element of an airline’s cost base. It is inevitable that ultimately the high oil prices will be passed through to consumers,” Willie Walsh, chief executive of the International Air [...]
Tory leadership: Tax row kicks off battle in earnest as Javid and Hunt hit back at Sunak July 10, 2022 THE BATTLE to become Prime Minister began in earnest this weekend with a row over whether Britain should cut taxes. There are now nine declared candidates to become Boris Johnson’s successors – with a tenth, foreign secretary Liz Truss, expected to join them later today or tomorrow. Yesterday saw a host of pledges to cut [...]
Tory latest: Javid and Hunt promise tax cuts as Shapps defends decision not to resign from Boris cabinet July 10, 2022 Press Association Sajid Javid has said his tax-cutting plans would cost around £39 billion per year, but this did not include slashing fuel duty further in the short-term. The Tory leadership candidate said he does not “believe in unfunded tax cuts”, adding: “I will be setting out in the next few days a scorecard which [...]
Just Eat and Amazon team up on takeaways in U.S. July 6, 2022 Takeaway giant Just Eat and Amazon have launched a new partnership today to give Amazon Prime members access to free deliveries on order in its U.S. unit Grubhub.
Letters: Time for special measures June 30, 2022 [Re: Watchdog puts Met Police under special measures, June 29] This is a regrettable but necessary measure. HM Inspectorate of Constabulary is to be commended. This is about weak leadership over a sustained timescale , a failure to manage out poor or criminal behaviour by a small minority of police. Most Met officers do an [...]
Letters: Talking it out (but no mail) June 29, 2022 [Re: Postal services face summer mayhem as strikes loom, June 28] I do hope that Royal Mail delivery workers going on strike won’t lead to unnecessary delays in the arrival of ballot papers to any other industry thinking of strike action. That would truly be a “confuse an American” level of irony. Lee Kelley [Re: [...]
Letters: Keep a hold of your cash June 28, 2022 [Re: Over seven in ten Brits worry for the elderly if UK goes cashless, yesterday] Your article speaks to a debate that is important to address. It is not just the elderly that would be made vulnerable as in the UK, it’s estimated that 16 per cent of over 18s don’t own a smartphone, and [...]
Un-tea-lievable: Welsh government considers banning children from buying tea and coffee June 23, 2022 The Welsh government is considering stopping the sale of tea and coffee to under-16s as part of a wider ban on energy drinks. A consultation on the proposal to end the sale of energy drinks to children also asks respondents whether the ban “should be widened to consider other drinks typically high in caffeine, such [...]
NHS agrees to pay £120k in damages to bereaved fiancee in covid first June 21, 2022 A woman whose fiance died after taking the covid jab has claimed to have received the first covid vaccine damage payment of £120,000.
Letters: A vital crypto winter June 20, 2022 [Re: Coinbase to cut staff by 18 per cent as it warns of crypto winter, June 14] Hailed by many cynics as the downfall of crypto, the recent crypto crash is symptomatic of the broader volatility of the crypto market and of the wider economy. Crypto exchanges have grown at a rapid rate over the [...]
