House price growth slows but remains in double digits April 29, 2022 Growth in house prices has slowed this month, but remains in double digits, according to the Nationwide House Price Index.
AstraZeneca sales and revenue soar as it unveils new research centre plans April 29, 2022 AstraZeneca, the pharmaceutical firm behind one of the world’s Covid-19 vaccines, has had both its sales and revenues soar more than 50 per cent in the past few months. The British-Swedish firm raked in $10.9bn (£8.7bn) in sales, and $11.3bn (£9bn) in revenue, in the first quarter of the year. AstraZeneca’s cancer treatment revenue carried [...]
City firms pledge to employ ex-offenders as prisons minister calls on bosses to ‘break offending cycle’ April 29, 2022 Business chiefs, including from telecoms giant TalkTalk and construction firm Murphy, have pledged to employ hundreds of ex-offenders. The prisons minister will today urge City bosses to put their weight behind a government scheme to help prisoners back into work upon release. “Getting prison leavers into steady jobs is a win-win. It cuts crime and [...]
Ollie Phillips: My five-man shortlist for Premiership player of the season April 29, 2022 With just three regular rounds of Premiership action remaining before we can turn our thoughts to the semi-finals, it’s worth highlighting some of the players who have stood out for me this season. While I have tried to lean away from those who have been away for weeks on end with international duty, in one [...]
Government doubles support for high energy businesses as energy crisis deepens April 29, 2022 The government is boosting support for high energy usage businesses, amid spiralling energy costs and record power prices.
How TikTok saved the bookstar: Will the UK stay in love with reading after lockdown? April 29, 2022 A decade ago, the narrative of bookselling was of the surging popularity of digital book sales, with physical editions left on the shelf. Figures from the Publishers’ Association in 2012 saw digital book sales shoot up 54 per cent while physical book sales dipped five per cent. Fast forward to 2021 and UK publishing sales [...]
Hiring ex-prisoners will make our streets safer and shave billions off the taxpayers’ bill April 29, 2022 People who choose to break the law should rightly be punished by being locked away in prison. But when it is time for them to be released back into society, the majority will find themselves not locked in but locked out – from getting jobs. This matters because research shows that offenders who have jobs [...]
Our tech industry is being undermined by a psyche allergic to global growth April 29, 2022 The tech sector in the UK is in high-growth mode. In 2021, there was a record-breaking $35.1bn investment into tech, almost 120 tech unicorns and nearly 40 tech IPOs. The record level of venture capital investment in the UK has increased the valuations of both public and private tech companies, putting Britain third in the [...]
The City A.M. Awards: What a delight to see the City alive once more April 28, 2022 What a joy it was last night to see the City’s leading lights once again gathered in one room again at the City A.M. awards, held in the ancient surroundings of The Guildhall. For all the ingenuity and innovation that came out of the pandemic, with video calls and screen sharing replacing working lunches and [...]
UK fraud office returns £1m to victims of ‘Wolf of Wimbledon’ scammer April 28, 2022 The UK’s serious fraud office (SFO) has returned £1m in stolen funds to more than 200 victims of Australian fraudster Jeffrey Revell-Reade. The SFO said it had handed over another £1m in stolen funds, on top of the £3m already returned, after the fraudster conned investors out of a total £70m. The return comes after [...]
