Harry and Meghan: Duchess of Sussex returns to Canada ‘to be with son’ as Royal Family try to find ‘workable solution’ January 10, 2020 The Duchess of Sussex has returned to Canada to be with eight-month old son Archie. It comes after Harry and Meghan announced they would be stepping back as senior royals. A spokeswoman said that Meghan had returned to Canada to be with her son, who is thought to have stayed in North America with a [...]
Lidl sales grow 11 per cent over Christmas period January 10, 2020 Lidl UK saw an 11 per cent increase in sales over the Christmas period, outshining bigger supermarket rivals, its latest trading update revealed today. The German discount supermarket group said it was the fastest growing bricks and mortar supermarket over the four weeks ending 29 December. Read more: Lidl sales help it hit record stake [...]
Can anyone stop Liverpool from becoming invincible and breaking Arsenal’s 49-match unbeaten record? January 9, 2020 If Liverpool avoid defeat against Tottenham on Saturday evening, they will have gone 38 league games unbeaten; the equivalent of a full season. Unfortunately, there are no medals for that in isolation, but there will be a trophy come the end of the season assuming they stay on course to end their 30-year top-flight drought. [...]
Red Bull and Max Verstappen are ready to challenge Mercedes and Lewis Hamilton for F1 titles January 8, 2020 Max Verstappen’s decision, announced this week, to sign a three-year contract extension to stay at Red Bull until the end of the 2023 season is the biggest sign yet of the team’s intent to topple Mercedes. The 22-year-old’s future was the subject of much speculation during the off-season until he committed his long-term future to [...]
Brendan Rodgers returned to England as a winner and has the skill set to lead Leicester to EFL cup glory January 7, 2020 If one accusation can be thrown at Brendan Rodgers during his first stint in the Premier League it is that, while a good manager, he did not prove himself a winner. After being sacked by Liverpool, following a campaign that saw him come as close as any Reds manager since 1990 had to winning the [...]
Wall Street lenders face reporting probes by UK banking watchdog January 4, 2020 A number of Wall Street’s biggest banks are facing investigations from the UK’s banking regulator regarding concerns of widespread financial reporting failures. The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) is commissioning reports on the quality of data being supplied to it by companies including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, according to Sky News. The UK operations of [...]
‘US will pay for Soleimani assassination for years to come’, says Iran President January 4, 2020 Iran President Hassan Rouhani has said the assassination of general Qassem Soleimani will “never be forgotten” as he compared it to the US-led coup that reinstated the Shah in 1953 and threatened a lengthy retaliation. A US airstrike on Friday killed the head of the Quds Force, Soleimani, widely considered the second most influential person [...]
Almost 3.5m people of working age in the UK have never had a job, study finds January 4, 2020 The number of people aged between 16 and 64 to have never had a paid job has increased by 50 per cent over the last 20 years, according to a new study by think tank Resolution Foundation. It found that 3.4m people in the UK had never had a job, or 8.2 per cent of [...]
Australia bushfires: Sydney suburb hits 49C to become ‘hottest place on Earth’ as heat creates storms January 4, 2020 The bushfires currently engulfing Australia are producing so much heat they are now generating their own storms. Authorities have warned that wind conditions are causing of the biggest fires to merge with fire tornadoes and dry lightning igniting even more fires. It has seen temperatures soar to new highs today, with Penrith, a suburb of [...]
UK High Street sees slight increase in December sales January 4, 2020 UK shops saw a marginal increase in December sales year-on-year driven by widespread discounting, a new survey revealed on Saturday. Sales in British shops were up 0.7 per cent for the month compared with 2018, according to the accountancy and business advisory firm BDO’s monthly High Street Sales Tracker. Read more: Next raises forecast after [...]
