As Australia confirms a law banning branded tobacco packages, should the UK follow suit? August 15, 2012 YES Amanda Sandford Branded packs are the last form of tobacco marketing. They act as mobile billboards that are visible every time a smoker reaches for a cigarette. Research shows that children are especially vulnerable and find colourful and glitzy packaging appealing, tempting them to smoke. Removing the promotional aspects of tobacco from packs would [...]
Rapid Responses August 15, 2012 Not short changed [Re: Why Boris owes me £90,000 for Olympic damage, yesterday] I couldn’t afford to travel from Florida to go to the Olympics and enjoy all that London and Britain had to offer during that fortnight. The Games are expensive, and London isn’t cheap. However, now the big show is over, I’m inspired [...]
Strike appose August 15, 2012 ■ CHICFEED If you love fashion blogs but find it hard to keep track of the many hundreds of thousands out there then chicfeed is the app for you. This gathers together the top fashion blogs from the likes of The Sartoralist, Face Hunter and Cherry Blossom Girl and collates them all into one feed. [...]
Give the bling a ring August 15, 2012 LG Prada phone by LG 3.0 P940 The Prada phone is sleek and sophisticated. With an 8 mega pixel camera and 8GB of memory and GPS, this touchscreen Android OS phone is one of the best designer models. Pad it out with other Prada accessories including designer cases and Bluetooth ear set. Available at T [...]
Stan Chart pays £217m to settle Iran claims August 14, 2012 STANDARD Chartered was last night forced to take a $340m (£217m) hit to settle US regulators’ charges that it broke sanctions against Iran and attempted to hide the evidence. The emerging markets banking group will also have to bring in a monitor to evaluate money-laundering risk controls in its New York branch, reporting back to [...]
Tourism bosses question Hunt’s China plan August 14, 2012 TOURISM industry leaders have been left unconvinced by government plans to treble to the number of Chinese visitors to the UK, saying yesterday there were still too many barriers to inbound travel that needed to be addressed. In a speech at the Tate Modern, culture secretary Jeremy Hunt set out how the government plans to [...]
Commuters face fare hike as taxpayer subsidy is cut August 14, 2012 COMMUTERS are set to come in for a hammering from January next year, when rail companies are next allowed to raise fares. Individual fares will be lifted by up to 11.2 per cent, as part of the Department for Transport’s (DfT) plan to shift costs from the Exchequer to the passenger. The cap on regulated [...]
Osborne faces a delicate balancing act on train ticket hikes August 14, 2012 WHEN the majestic Shard formally opened earlier this summer I was interested to learn that its architect Renzo Piano only catered for 48 car parking spaces in the building’s bowels. “It’s another big shift,” he was quoted as saying. “To tell people, look, stop going around in cars.” Piano’s thinking makes a lot of sense. [...]
What the other papers say this morning August 14, 2012 FINANCIAL TIMES Lib Dems push to reopen bank reform Nick Clegg and Vince Cable are leading a push to reopen talks on UK banking reforms in a move that could stoke coalition tensions. The senior Liberal Democrat pair want to re-examine whether banks’ retail operations should be allowed to market complex derivative products, in an [...]
Inflation on the up in July after airline fares rise August 14, 2012 INFLATION shocked analysts by flying up in July, driven by soaring air fares and early clothes sales, Office for National Statistics data (ONS) out yesterday showed. Inflation was 2.6 per cent on the consumer price index (CPI), up from 2.4 per cent in June and confounding city expectations of a steady decline. This higher rise [...]
