By: James Nickerson

I am a reporter at City A.M. looking at the stories, people and data behind political events from the UK, Europe and further afield. I also write about infrastructure and transport, as well as broader issues around global business.

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Ryanair makes its latest pitch to customers by launching Ryanair Rooms

June 9, 2016

Budget airline Ryanair will launch an accommodation service, offering customers a choice of hotels, hostels and more at the lowest prices. The low price accommodation service, Ryanair Rooms, will launch from 1 October, in a bid to expand its offering to its 116m customers in a challenge to the likes of Airbnb. The service will [...]
Euro 2016: Firms gear up for a packed summer of sporting spectacles

June 9, 2016

As football fans prepare for the European Championship in France, so do companies back in the UK, with a number of companies gearing up for a packed summer of sporting spectacles. Domino’s pizza, in particular, is reported to be employing 10,000 extra staff as prepares for a huge summer of sport. The UK’s largest fast [...]
EU referendum: Former Prime Ministers Tony Blair and John Major make appeal to Northern Ireland for Remain

June 9, 2016

Labour and Conservative grandees Tony Blair and John Major forget their exchanges across the dispatch box and instead came together in an appeal for a Remain vote based on the peace process in Northern Ireland. The two former Prime Ministers, both of whom were heavily involved in the Northern Ireland peace process, will today warned that [...]
EU referendum: Leave campaign threatens legal action again after voter registration extended

June 9, 2016

A pro-Brexit campaign group has made yet another threat of legal action, this time against the government. Leave.EU, Arron Banks' project, has said it is considering legal action against the government after it was announced that the registration deadline for voters would be extended until midnight tonight. While most called on the government to extend registration [...]
St Helena airport costing £285m can’t open because it’s too windy

June 9, 2016

The South Atlantic island of St Helena is one of the hardest-to-reach locations in the world; it takes a five-and-a-half day voyage on the RMS Saint Helena. So naturally, there was a lot of excitement in town when it was decided an airport was going to be built. That's been met with the same frustration [...]
EU referendum: Most mechanical engineers back Remain but 60 per cent say EU bureaucracy is detrimental to UK manufacturing and engineering

June 9, 2016

A majority of mechanical engineers back the UK's membership of the EU as it gives better access to markets, but are concerned about EU bureaucracy hampering UK manufacturing and engineering. A survey of 2,765 members of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IME) found 56 per cent support staying in the EU, compared with 27 per [...]
Euro 2016: Employers urged to let employees enjoy football tournament, new research finds

June 8, 2016

Employers should allow their employees to enjoy the European Championship in order to avoid absenteeism, new research has found. Research from Kronos found the tournament is set to be the biggest cause of unauthorised leave in the UK during 2016, with more than a third of employees (35 per cent) having anticipated that the spectacle would cause [...]
EU referendum: Michael Gove says it’s government policy for Turkey to join EU

June 8, 2016

Justice secretary Michael Gove has made the security argument for Brexit, pointing to Turkey's hypothetical accession to the EU as a reason to vote for the UK to leave the EU. Speaking at a Vote Leave event, Gove said it was both British and EU policy for Turkey to become a member of the EU. However, [...]
PMQs today: Prime Minister David Cameron under pressure on zero-hour contracts and comments by pro-Leave ministers

June 8, 2016

Prime Minister David Cameron came under fire from opposition in PMQs today on zero-hour contracts in the aftermath of the revealed exploitation at Sports Direct. "Will the Prime Minister do what some other European countries have done and ban exploitative zero-hour contacts here?," Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn asked. David Cameron acknowledged that the practice of Sports [...]
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan says first savings found to fund his fares freeze, but some tickets will be excluded

June 8, 2016

A major efficiency savings programme to enable fares on Transport for London services to be frozen until 2020 has been announced by the Mayor of London, but not all travel costs are set to be included. Sadiq Khan and London’s transport commissioner, Mike Brown, announced the plans which will allow the freeze to come into force without hitting [...]

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