JD Sports data hack: Around 10m customers caught up in ransomware attack warned to be ‘vigilant’ of scam emails January 30, 2023 Around 10 million people might have had their addresses, phone numbers and email addresses among other things stolen in a hack that hit retailer JD Sports. The business said payment card details were safe, and that it has no reason to think the hackers have accessed users’ passwords. Hackers accessed a system which contained information [...]
How a BBC Radio 1 DJ helped alcohol-free brand Lucky Saint open its first London pub January 30, 2023 Alcohol-free beer brand Lucky Saint is to open its first pub after securing £10m to supercharge its ambitious growth plans. The pub, which will also operate as the group’s headquarters, is due to open in Marylebone in March 2023. Luke Boase, founder of the business, said that for now the opening will be “the only [...]
Ofcom investigating BT for failure to provide customers with ‘clear and simple’ contracts January 23, 2023 The telecoms regulator Ofcom has opened an investigation into BT over its compliance with an obligation to provide customers with clear and simple contract information before they sign up to a new deal, the regulator has announced. Telecoms providers have been required to give customers contract information and a short – usually one-page – summary [...]
Gambling: TonyBet fined nearly £443,000 for failing to implement anti-money laundering rules January 18, 2023 TonyBet has been slapped with a £442,750 fine and warned about its failure to have fair and transparent terms, and for failing to follow social responsibility and anti-money laundering rules, the Gambling Commission said. The operator – which operates tonybet.co.uk – will also have to undergo a third-party audit to assess whether it is effectively [...]
Investors set to be cheered by Bunzl’s climbing profits December 18, 2022 Specialist distribution group Bunzl is set to have waded through cost inflation and supply chain challenges and emerged with strong sales at the end of the year. The FTSE 100 company, which sells global businesses a wide range of products from coffee cups to cafes, food wrap to supermarkets, and cleaning materials to hospitals, will [...]
Google searches for solar panels rocket more than 300 per cent as cost of living and energy crises hit August 15, 2022 Google searches for solar panels have rocketed by more than 300 per cent this year, with the cost of living and energy crises hitting hard, writes Cat Branagan. More Brits are looking for alternative and cleaner energy sources it has been shown by a new report of Google Trends data. Searches shot 316 per cent [...]
UK is first to approve Moderna jab to tackle Omicron variant August 15, 2022 The UK has become the first country in the world to approve a booster jab targeting the Omicron variant, writes Ellis Asher. Moderna has developed the landmark bivalent ‘Spikevax’ as coronavirus cases continue to fall in the UK. This comes after the EU’s European Medicines Agency pushed back its delivery of the dose to later [...]
Businesses’ needs forgotten as Truss and Sunak up anti-immigration rhetoric August 1, 2022 As ballots start to land on the doormats of Conservative party members this morning, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak have entered into what has been branded an “arms race” to tackle illegal migration. Both are playing a game of one-up-manship on who will limit the most people coming into the UK across the Channel. The [...]
English Cricket Board and KP under fire over The Hundred adverts April 13, 2022 Press Association The UK’s ad watchdog has warned the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and its sponsor KP Snacks about directing junk food promotions at children after banning two adverts for The Hundred featuring crisps and toffee popcorn. The first ad, an email offering free bats and balls sent by the ECB to people [...]
UK’s biggest energy users warn gas price hike could hit net zero January 9, 2022 Eight in 10 of the UK’s biggest energy users have said they are worried by rapid rises in energy prices and fear it could put their environmental investments at risk. Most intensive energy users have plans to cut their carbon emissions, according to a new survey. Energy giant Vattenfall said that 90 per cent of [...]