Cake Box to open 20 new stores as Uber Eats and Deliveroo orders double sales October 4, 2021 Cake Box said this morning that its sales nearly almost doubled for the past six months amid a strong recovery in customer demand. The high street cream cake retailer said it was buoyed by its continued expansion, opening 20 new franchise sites over the six months to September, to bring it to a total of [...]
UCL professor resigns from Science Museum board over oil and gas cash October 4, 2021 Professor of Climate Science Chris Rapley CBE resigned this weekend from the Science Museum’s Advisory Board over the issue of fossil fuel sponsorship and the museum’s willingness to accept money from major oil and gas companies, including Shell. Rapley, who is currently Professor of Climate Science at UCL, has long-standing ties with the Science Museum, [...]
Flutter makes Amy Howe new boss of FanDuel with US spinoff still on the cards October 4, 2021 Betting group Flutter Entertainment said this morning it has appointed Amy Howe as the new chief of its FanDuel arm as the company continues to consider spinning off the US business. Howe joined sportsbook and fantasy sport business FanDuel as president in February before becoming its interim chief executive in July. Her appointment comes after [...]
Fuel crisis: City traders circle BP and Shell as they take positions for more price hikes October 4, 2021 Investors are not banking on a swift resolution to the UK fuel crisis against a backdrop of continuing queues on forecourts and the Army being put on standby to help with deliveries, according to data shared with City A.M. this morning. Analysis of investor movements with regards to BP, Royal Shell and Glencore shows that [...]
Rishi Sunak does not rule out council tax rise as he will ‘cut up Boris Johnson’s credit card’ October 4, 2021 Chancellor Rishi Sunak does not rule out further tax rises, including a hike in council tax to pay for social care. Asked about a warning from the Local Government Association that council tax may have to rise to plug a black hole in social care, Sunak said it would be wrong to “pre-empt” the local [...]
Future of HS2 uncertain as Grant Shapps will not ‘blindly follow’ decades old-plans October 4, 2021 Speculation over the future of the eastern route of the HS2 is mounting after Grant Shapps said he is not planning to “blindly follow” plans dawn up 20 years ago. In an interview with the Financial Times today, the Transport Secretary signalled that a major rethink of the high-speed rail project between Birmingham and Leeds [...]
UK travel rules are changing from today as traffic light system is scrapped October 4, 2021 Travel rules are changing significantly today, with the UK’s traffic light system involving green, amber and red lists being scrapped, with locations categorised as either on the red list or not. It comes amid reports the number of countries on the red list will be slashed to nine from 54 later in the week, with [...]
The sky is not the limit for Barbie as she takes zero-gravity flight to space October 4, 2021 When young girls and boys think of Barbie, they may not imagine her floating around on a zero-gravity flight. But the brand has teamed up with the European Space Agency (ESA) and its only active female astronaut to inspire young girls to see the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (Stem) field as a viable career [...]
Brexit: ‘British renaissance’ has begun as ‘the long, bad EU dream’ is over, Lord Frost to say October 4, 2021 “British Renaissance has begun” as the nation struggles with staffing issues linked to the departure from the European Union, Brexit minister Lord Frost will tell delegates at the Tory party conference later today. The “long bad dream” of EU membership is over, according to Frost, as he challenges Brussels to be more “ambitious” to solve [...]
Pressure mounts on Facebook and Nick Clegg as whistleblower does not hold back October 4, 2021 Facebook and its vice president of policy and public affairs, Nick Clegg, are increasingly under pressure as a whistleblower has come forward, making a range of damaging claims. Firstly, Facebook prematurely turned off safeguards designed to thwart misinformation after Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in last year’s elections in a moneymaking move, the whistleblower claims. [...]
