South Quay incident: Police say package is not a threat August 28, 2018 Docklands office workers were evacuated this afternoon as police responded to reports of a suspicious package. The object was found in Harbour Exchange Square in South Quay at around 1.20pm, and police officers closed roads and evacuated offices in the square as they sent a bomb disposal robot in to assess the package, but they [...]
Feeling thirsty? London is getting 20 new drinking fountains at train stations and shopping hotspots August 28, 2018 The summer heatwave might be nought but a distant memory now, but if the capital sees the sun again this side of Christmas Londoners will be thankful for 20 new water fountains coming to train stations, shopping centres and museums around the city. Four of the Mayor of London's watering holes (we don't mean pubs) are [...]
Lloyds stock lift as it completes £1bn share buyback programme August 28, 2018 Lloyds Banking Group completed its buyback of £1bn of shares today. The London branch of investment bank UBS managed the buyback, which started on 8 March, paying for 1.6bn shares over the four-month process before selling them back to Lloyds. Read more: Paddy Power buys back £200m in shares The bank kicked off the buyback [...]
Theresa May says no-deal Brexit isn’t ‘the end of the world’ August 28, 2018 Prime Minister Theresa May has suggested that a no-deal Brexit “wouldn’t be the end of the world”, despite the Treasury warning that such a scenario could reduce GDP by 10 per cent. She further claimed that chancellor Philip Hammond’s department’s prediction was “a work in progress” and re-iterated her claim that no-deal is a better [...]
Predator Oil & Gas sets sights on monetising Trinidad and Ireland prospects August 28, 2018 Predator Oil & Gas Holdings today outlined plans to generate cash for investors after successfully funding its short and medium-term operations in its recent listing on the London Stock Exchange. The new listing, formed to take advantage of drilling prospects in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, raised £1.3m through its May IPO, and has [...]
T-Mobile warns customers about data breach August 24, 2018 T-Mobile said today that hackers have accessed around 2m customers’ personal data. The US hack saw cyber criminals steal people’s names, billing zip codes, phone numbers, email addresses, account numbers, and account types. Read more: Email blunder: West Ham FC exposes supporters' email addresses But the mobile operator said financial data, social security numbers and [...]
Data breach: West Ham United accidentally exposes hundreds of fans’ email addresses August 24, 2018 West Ham United suffered a data breach yesterday when it accidentally shared hundreds of season ticket-holders’ data with one another. UK data protection watchdog the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is looking into the breach at the club, whose staff’s email blunder resulted in up to 200 supporters seeing each other’s details. Read more: 20,000 Superdrug [...]
Disaster-struck TSB set to lose three of its executives August 24, 2018 Three top TSB executives are set to retire from the bank, which is still recovering from an IT meltdown that has cost it more than £176m to date. Treasurer Ian Firth and chief marketing officer Nigel Gilbert are both retiring at the end of next month, TSB confirmed today. Current marketing director Pete Markey will [...]
US-China trade war: China promises to ‘keep retaliating’ against Trump’s tariffs August 24, 2018 China will continue to retaliate against US trade tariffs, finance minister Liu Kun said today, after talks in Washington between the superpowers fizzled out without resolving their escalating trade war. US markets fell at the end of trading last night, while the Dow closed 0.3 per cent lower, with Boeing and Caterpillar dragging the index [...]
Motty lends his voice to Football Index’s advertising push August 23, 2018 Match of the Day’s legendary commentator John Motson is lending his voice to a new trading platform dedicated to football. Motson, who has commentated on some of the Premier League and FA Cup’s biggest matches since the late 1960s, will be the face and voice of fresh fintech venture Football Index’s TV and radio adverts. [...]
