Video didn’t kill the radio star: Heart Radio keeps UK top spot reaching 10m a week May 19, 2022 The UK’s biggest commercial radio company Global celebrates its best-ever audience results, scoring its highest ever reach, hours and share. Global leads the commercial radio market in all measures, with a record-breaking 25.8m weekly listeners, 242m hours and 24 per cent share.
Britain is right to step in as the EU drags its feet on a Northern Ireland concession May 19, 2022 Northern Ireland was never going to be easy. From the genesis of talks about the border in 2017, through to the “backstop to the backstop” agreed by Theresa May, to the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland, its evolution was complex and technical. The Protocol effectively places Northern Ireland in the EU’s single market and customs union [...]
Letters: Small businesses will hurt first May 19, 2022 [Re: Banks across the UK are ‘pulling the drawbridge’ as lending to small businesses hits all-time low, May 16] The fact that successful applications for finance amongst small firms have plunged to their lowest level since records began – while lending to large corporates has increased significantly since the start of the year – highlights [...]
New tube map featuring the Elizabeth Line unveiled by Transport for London May 19, 2022 A new tube map featuring the Elizabeth Line has been unveiled by Transport for London. Ahead of its official launch on Tuesday 24 May, Crossrail appears as a double purple line, differentiating it from other underground routes. In the biggest change to the iconic tube map for years, the new line appears alongside the London [...]
UK introduces new Russian airline sanctions May 19, 2022 The UK has announced new restrictions on Russian airlines as the war in Ukraine continues.
Invest more to help ease cost of living crunch, Sunak tells business chiefs May 19, 2022 The chancellor Rishi Sunak has called on businesses to ramp up investment in training and innovation to help alleviate a cost of living squeeze, in a speech to the country’s top business chiefs last night.
Explainer-in-brief: Where the world was the last time inflation was this high May 19, 2022 Yesterday the Office for National Statistics (ONS) announced that UK inflation had hit 9 per cent, reaching the highest level since 1982. This year we have slowly emerged from the pandemic, witnessed the Kremlin’s ongoing war in Ukraine, and we’re facing a dire cost of living crisis. But what was going on last time that [...]
1 Minute Market Rundown – 19th May 2022 May 19, 2022 Trade the ExtremesUSD on the Front Foot AgainCrypto Slides We won’t lie…yesterday caught us rather off guard. Risk, for lack of a better word, capitulated. US shares plunged 4%, their biggest daily drop in almost 2 years. Earnings reports from US consumer titans (Walmart, Costco, Target) disappointed and fuelled concerns that high inflation is squeezing [...]
Ex President George Bush mocked for gaffe: ‘wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean Ukraine’ May 19, 2022 Former American president George Bush Jr has come in for ridicule after accidentally referring to the “illegal invasion of Iraq” during a speech about the war in Ukraine. The ex Republican leader, 75, made the Freudian slip during an event in Dallas, Texas, on Wednesday, at an institute in his name. In a video posted [...]
Laurence Fox fails to get libel trial heard by a jury May 19, 2022 Laurence Fox has failed in his bid to get his libel trial heard by a jury, in what would have been the first libel case heard jury in a decade. A judge rejected the actor and right-wing political activist’s argument that Fox would not get a fair hearing as judges hearing the case may suffer [...]
