Labour MP who beat Nick Clegg faces criminal charges over fraudulent invoices August 20, 2021 Jared O’Mara, a former Labour MP, is facing fraud charges in relation to an allegation he made fraudulent invoices to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority in 2019. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it had authorised police to charge Jared O’Mara, who used to represent the constituency of Sheffield Hallam, with seven counts of fraud [...]
Investors in EU sustainable funds may end up with oil, mining or tobacco stocks August 20, 2021 If you want to invest in a fund branded as sustainable under new European Union rules, you’re spoilt for choice. But you may end up owning shares in oil companies, mining conglomerates or tobacco firms. Watch the full report.
Commuting again after pandemic? Never again, say one in ten Londoners August 20, 2021 Many office workers in London are to set to embark on their return to the workplace after the summer. However, many commuters are not too keen to board a train or catch the tube again, mainly due to increased concern over infection control and social distancing on the daily commute. According to a survey conducted [...]
Watch: Elon Musk’s satellites beam internet into Chilean boy’s life August 20, 2021 A school in the small remote fishing hamlet of Sotomo, Chile, is the beneficiary of a pilot internet program run by Starlink, a division of Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Watch the full report.
Residents of Sydney to remain in lockdown until at least late September August 20, 2021 The ongoing lockdown in Australia’s largest city has been extended until at least the end of September as tougher measures including a curfew and an outdoor mask mandate were imposed to slow the spread of Covid-19’s Delta variant. New South Wales state, which includes Sydney, reported 642 locally acquired infections in the latest 24-hour period [...]
Is starting your own business better than sex? Yes, say half of all Londoners August 20, 2021 Self-employment has skyrocketed 93.9 per cent since 2000 and for nearly 1 in 2 Londoners, it seems that their sex life has taken a backseat as a result. Is starting up and running a business really better than sex? Well, 47 per cent of Londoners believe so as they compare the feeling of launching their own business to be better or at least as good as sex itself, according [...]
Bidding war for Morrisons heats up as US private equity giant makes £7bn move August 20, 2021 A fresh £7bn bid for supermarket chain Morrisons has been put forward by US private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R). The deal has been unanimously accepted by the board of the grocer and directors have said shareholders should vote in favour of the takeover at a meeting due in early October. It means [...]
Watch: Afghans desperate to flee Kabul fall from plane August 19, 2021 Crowds of people desperate to flee Afghanistan tried to board a moving plane at Kabul airport, with some falling to the ground after take off. Edit contains graphic images.
Faulty lab tests: Hundreds of drug-driving convictions could be quashed August 19, 2021 Hundreds of drug-driving convictions could be called into question after problems with evidence samples were discovered in forensic labs, according to police. Some evidence handled by forensic testing company Synlab Laboratory Services Limited is “no longer reliable”, the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) said. The company “identified issues with its analysis of drug-driving samples” in [...]
Exclusive: Fund manager Andy Ho on why the City is the best place to raise capital August 19, 2021 This morning City A.M. sits down with fund manager Andy Ho, a City insider who left his native Vietnam as a boat refugee, only to return two decades later as a global investor. Ho’s Vietnam-focused investment fund VOF is listed on the LSE’s main market, a member of the FTSE 250 and one of the [...]