Brits to spend £51bn on city breaks this year August 18, 2021 Holidaymakers exploring UK cities on staycations will spend a collective £51bn this year. On average Brits are going on three city breaks this year and spending on average £414 on a holiday, according to the 2021 Travelodge City Holiday Index. Holidaymakers will spend £17.08 more than the 2020 city break average spend of £396.92, according [...]
Nando’s Peri Peri chicken off the table as UK favourite hit with supply shortages August 18, 2021 Ongoing supply chain disruptions have caused Nando’s to shut several restaurants while industry suppliers warn of worse to come. With the ‘pingdemic’ raging on, reduced numbers of lorry drivers and staffing shortages at suppliers have significantly impacted Nando’s operations. The UK based restaurant group recently suffered a chicken shortage and subsequently had to close 45 [...]
Widening deficit lays bare difficulties of Scottish independence August 18, 2021 The response to the Covid crisis has inflicted severe damage on Scotland’s public finances, according to official figures released today. Scotland’s fiscal deficit swelled to 22.4 per cent of GDP in the year to April 2021, more than eight percentage points higher than the same ratio for the UK as a whole. In 2019/20, Scotland’s [...]
Annual Covid-19 boosters may become a reality, says Moderna co-founder August 18, 2021 With governments around the world debating whether to authorise Covid-19 vaccine booster doses, Moderna co-founder Noubar Afeyan envisions a time when the shot could become routine. “Public health officials are going to have to decide if everybody should get a booster shot,” he said in an interview on Bloomberg TV today. “My guess is that [...]
Ethereum’s EIP-1559 launch update August 18, 2021 Metaverse guru Dr Chris Kacher says it is time to make way for the era of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other transformational crypto technologies.
Qantas says all staff must be vaccinated as Sydney endures its eighth week of lockdown August 18, 2021 Amid rising case numbers owing to the Delta variant in Australia, Qantas have said that all of its employees must be vaccinated against Covid-19. The airline giant is the latest in a long line of firms to implement mandatory vaccinations for its staff. Frontline workers including pilots, cabin crew and airport staff must be fully [...]
Tory MP Tom Tugendhat slams Joe Biden’s ‘shameful’ comments on Afghani soldiers August 18, 2021 Senior Tory MP Tom Tugendhat has hit out at “shameful” comments made by Joe Biden on the efforts of Afghani soldiers defending the country from the Taliban. The Foreign Affairs Committee chair, who served in Afghanistan, said “those who have never fought for the colours they fly should be careful about criticising those who have”. [...]
Brits who rely on cash set to benefit from improved access at shops August 18, 2021 Brits who rely heavily on cash to manage their finances and buy essential goods and services are set to be benefit from improved access to pounds and pennies. Following a successful pilot, the Access to Cash group has decided to rapidly roll out ‘cashback without purchase’ to thousands of smaller shops over the coming month. [...]
Home office hazards: Shoffices and pizza oven related fires jumped during lockdown August 18, 2021 Insurer Zurich has warned that outbuilding fires – in sheds, garages and conservatories – rose by 16 per cent last year when national lockdowns resulted in a surge in people turning their sheds into offices, or ‘shoffices’. New data revealed through freedom of information requests by insurer Zurich to UK fire authorities have shown that [...]
Japanese Grand Prix cancelled amid rising Covid case numbers August 18, 2021 This year’s Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix, due to be held in October, has been cancelled amid rising Covid-19 case numbers in the country. It is the fifth race to be cancelled this season in Formula 1 and the second year in a row that the Japanese Grand Prix has been axed. “The decision has [...]
