Duke of York’s demand for jury trial is Prince Andrew saying: ‘Bring it on’ January 27, 2022 Legal commentator Joshua Rozenberg has said the Duke of York’s demand for a jury trial is him stating “bring it on”. Experts had predicted Andrew would seek a settlement after the Queen stripped him of his military roles but court documents showed that he has decided to face Virginia Giuffre, who has brought a civil [...]
High Street bank TSB returns to profit thanks to record mortgage lending January 27, 2022 High street bank TSB has revealed it returned to profit in 2021 thanks to record mortgage lending and a bounce back in the wider economy. The Spanish-owned lender posted annual pre-tax profits of £157.5m against losses of £204.6m in 2020. It comes after TSB notched up its highest-ever gross mortgage lending at £9.2 billion for [...]
EasyJet CEO confident ‘testing will become a thing of the past’ January 27, 2022 EasyJet said this morning it is seeing a boost in bookings from the move to scrap Covid travel tests, after the spread of the Omicron variant hit passenger demand last month. The low-cost airline said Omicron saw its load factor – a measure of how well it fills its planes – slump to 67% in [...]
US and UK threaten Putin with personal sanctions if Russia does invade Ukraine January 27, 2022 Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said the UK is not ruling out support for personal sanctions against President Vladimir Putin in the event Russia invades Ukraine. Ms Truss made the comments after US President Joe Biden suggested moving to penalise the Russian president could be an option in the case of an invasion. When asked on [...]
Welcome again: Care homes can receive unlimited visitors from Monday January 27, 2022 Care home residents can receive unlimited visitors from Monday as restrictions to tackle the Omicron variant of coronavirus are eased, the Department of Health said. Self-isolation periods will also be reduced from 14 days to 10 for those who test positive, with further reductions if they test negative on days five and six. And there [...]
Did he or did he not? Boris Johnson under pressure to clarify role in Afghan animal airlift January 27, 2022 The Prime Minister is coming under increasing pressure to explain his role in the evacuation of animals from Afghanistan amid reports he did influence their removal from Kabul, despite his denials. No 10 has repeatedly said Johnson had no involvement in pushing for help for the charity Nowzad, after accusations that officials’ time was taken [...]
Government to pump £100m in new nuclear power plant January 27, 2022 Plans to build a new nuclear power station have received a boost after the Government announced £100m of funding to support its continued development. Ministers said the move aimed to attract further financing from private investors for the Sizewell C project in Suffolk. Unions welcomed the development as a step forward, but Unite urged the [...]
BT looking to hire 600 apprentices and graduates across the UK this year January 27, 2022 British Telecom said this morning it plans to recruit more than 600 apprentices and graduates later this year. Positions will be in engineering, customer service, applied research and cyber-security. The recruits will also support the company’s plans to build and extend its 5G network around the UK. The new roles are spread across a number [...]
HSBC pushes further into Saudi Arabia: Canary Wharf approves $10bn loan so mass polluter Saudi Aramco can expand January 27, 2022 HSBC is in line to finance a $10bn revolving credit facility to one of the world’s biggest polluters, the Saudi Arabian Oil Company, or Saudi Aramco, despite the bank’s commitment to ‘Net Zero emissions by 2050’. HSBC’s latest venture in the Middle Eastern kingdom, in partnership with Standard Chartered, is likely to draw scrutiny from [...]
Mysterious Covid variant BA.2 spreads like lightning into over 40 countries but Omicron acts as ‘super booster’ to new coronavirus mutation January 27, 2022 The new Covid variant BA.2, first detected at the end of last week, is spreading rapidly across the globe, as the new mutation has now popped up in more than 40 countries around the world, according to various reports. Also called ‘stealth omicron,’ the World Health Organization has reported cases of BA.2 in dozens of [...]
