Supermarket sales rise over Easter – but prove egg-sasperating for Tesco, Morrisons and Asda April 5, 2016 It could have been so easy for supermarkets. Not only are prices at an all-time low, but an early Easter pushed sales up compared with last year, new figures have shown. But while the Easter bunny hopped along to most of the nation's retailers, the big four continued to struggle. The figures, by Kantar Worldpanel, showed sales [...]
HM Revenue & Customs heaves deep sigh, promises it’s looking into the Panama Papers April 4, 2016 HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has said it will "closely examine" data it receives from the so-called Panama Papers leak, and vowed to act on it "swiftly and appropriately". In a statement following a massive leak last night of papers from Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca, which purport to reveal how some of the world's [...]
Want to find out what your salary will be like when you enter corporate law? These are the City’s best-paying law firms April 4, 2016 Lawyers: we all know they're better paid than the rest of us, but just how much can you expect to earn if you join one of London's big-hitting firms? What's surprising is that new research suggests firms in the so-called Magic Circle – the group of London's most elite law firms – aren't necessarily the [...]
40 years of Apple: This video makes you realise quite how much Apple has accomplished since it was founded April 1, 2016 It's Apple's 40th birthday today – and to mark the occasion, the company was flying the Jolly Roger above its headquarters in California this morning. That's based on founder Steve Jobs' observation, in 1983, that "it's better be a pirate than join the navy" – after which the team designing the Macintosh flew the pirate [...]
Well that was unexpected – US jobless rate rises for the first time in months but non-farm payroll beats expectations April 1, 2016 The US jobless rate rose in March, the first time since May 2015 it has done so – but the number of job openings beat expectations. Unemployment edged back up to five per cent, having dropped to 4.9 per cent last month, while the number of job openings hit 215,000, against forecasts of 205,000. That follows [...]
How gullible are you? Take our April Fool quiz and find out April 1, 2016 Everyone from Nigel Farage to BMW were at it this morning as the internet threatened to reach Peak April Fool – but some stories that seemed too good to be true actually weren't… Reckon you can beat the jokers at their own game? Take our April Fool quiz to find out just how gullible you really [...]
The Tesla Model 3 has finally been unveiled: Here’s what Elon Musk has told us so far April 1, 2016 After the kind of hype (not to mention queues outside stores) only Apple tends to create, it's finally here: in the wee hours of this morning, Elon Musk unveiled Tesla's "car of the people" – the Model 3. Musk said the car is the "next logical step" of Tesla's "secret master plan" to make the [...]
London 2012 Olympics Aquatics Centre architect Dame Zaha Hadid dies aged 65 March 31, 2016 One of the UK's leading architects, Dame Zaha Hadid, has died aged 65. Today Zaha Hadid Architects said Hadid, who is best known for work including the London 2012 Aquatics Centre and the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, died suddenly while being treated in hospital in Miami in the early hours of the morning, after contracting bronchitis earlier this [...]
Elon Musk to unveil new Tesla: Here’s everything you need to know about the Model 3 March 31, 2016 Tesla may be among the coolest marques around at the moment, but with a Model S priced at just shy of £50,000, for the majority of petrol (er, lithium?) heads, the brand has been pretty out of reach thus far. But that's all about to change, with the launch of the Model 3, set to take place [...]
Party on: Pound bounces as UK GDP growth is revised upwards March 31, 2016 Things aren't as bad as we thought, it turns out – after official figures showed UK GDP rose 0.6 per cent in the fourth quarter of last year, rather than the 0.5 per cent originally thought. The figures, published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) this morning, showed growth in December 2015 compared with the same [...]
