Labour’s renationalisation plan ‘would cost £200bn’ October 14, 2019 The Labour party’s plans to renationalise water and energy utilities, train companies and the Royal Mail would cost at least £196bn, new analysis by the country’s biggest employer organisation has revealed. The huge sum is equivalent to the total amount of income tax paid by UK citizens in a single year, and is almost as [...]
US poised to impose sanctions against Turkey as Syria assault escalates October 13, 2019 The US has said it is ready to impose sanctions on Turkey “at a moment’s notice” as the country ratchets up its assault on Syria. Read more: Trump’s troop withdrawal will put Syrian Kurds in danger Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin said President Donald Trump was monitoring the situation ahead of a meeting of the National [...]
Parcel pandemonium: Royal Mail braces for Christmas strike chaos October 13, 2019 Letter and parcel deliveries could be thrown into disarray over Christmas as Royal Mail workers threaten to launch strike action. Read more: Royal Mail launches search for new UK director More than 100,000 members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) have been balloted over strike action, with the results expected on Tuesday. If passed, the [...]
Saudi Arabia denies responsibility for attack on Iranian oil tanker October 13, 2019 A senior Saudi minister has denied that his country was behind a suspected missile attack on an Iranian oil tanker in the Red Sea. “We did not engage in such behaviour at all. This is not how we operate and that’s not how we did [it] in the past,” minister of state for foreign affairs [...]
Investors hope for end to market jitters after US-China trade truce October 13, 2019 Investors will be hoping for more stable trading this week after a preliminary trade agreement between the US and China marked a possible end to months of market volatility. President Donald Trump hailed the “biggest deal ever” after reaching a limited trade deal with China on Friday. Read more: Donald Trump reveals phase one trade [...]
City-born Cardinal Newman declared a saint by the Pope October 13, 2019 City-born Catholic convert Cardinal John Henry Newman has been declared a saint by the pope during a ceremony in the Vatican. Newman was one of five prominent religious figures to be canonised by Pope Francis in a mass that attracted tens of thousands of pilgrims. The 19th century theologian and poet, who converted from Anglicanism [...]
BT Mobile rolls out 5G for consumer and business plans October 11, 2019 BT has become the latest UK mobile network to launch 5G, rolling out its next-generation network in more than 20 towns and cities across the country. Read more: EU warns of cyber risks from state-backed 5G suppliers London, Birmingham, Cardiff and Manchester are among the first locations to gain access to the network, while BT [...]
Government must reach funding deal with BBC over free TV licences, say MPs October 11, 2019 MPs have urged the government and the BBC to reach a funding arrangement to restore free TV licences for people aged over 75. In a damning report the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) select committee slammed the government of 2015 for trying to “bounce” the BBC into accepting measures that left it liable to [...]
Dialling down: A quarter of mobile phone users make fewer than five calls a month October 10, 2019 A quarter of mobile phone users in the UK make fewer than five calls per month, while six per cent made no calls at all, new figures have revealed. Moreover, around 60 per cent of those people who did pick up the phone ended the call in under 90 seconds. Read more: Mobile shopping platform [...]
Nobel prize for literature awarded to Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke October 10, 2019 Polish author Olga Tokarczuk and Austrian writer Peter Handke have both been awarded the Nobel prize for literature. Tokarczuk, who was lauded for her “narrative imagination” and “encyclopedic passion”, was handed the prestigious award for 2018. Read more: Nationwide scoops £50m prize for small business lending Handke scooped up the prize for this year and [...]
