Nail inbox zero: Six ways to take control of your overloaded inbox before 2017 December 28, 2016 Christmas is over, New Year looms: it's that strange, limbo-like time of the year most people spend quietly coming up with new ways to serve leftover turkey. But you can also spend it preparing to hit the ground running next year, by giving your email inbox the TLC it deserves – so you don't get that sinking [...]
Failure to take off: Delta Air Lines ditches order for 18 Boeing Dreamliner 787s worth around $4bn December 28, 2016 US airline Delta has agreed to cancel an order for 18 Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft, which is valued at more than $4bn (£3.2bn) at current list prices. Delta assumed the deal as part of its merger with Northwest Airlines in 2008 (which set it back $2.6bn in shares), though in 2010 it deferred the order [...]
Fog and mist is affecting flights out of Heathrow and City airports December 28, 2016 If you're taking advantage of the Christmas break to venture to sunnier (or snowier) climes, beware: fog is affecting flights into and out of Heathrow airport. The airport tweeted this morning that passengers should check flight status with their airline. Foggy weather may affect scheduled flights today. Please kindly check your flight status with your airline: [...]
Over half of consumers expect to still be paying off Christmas shopping this time next year December 28, 2016 Nearly nine out of 10 people in the UK will wake up with a post-festive spending hangover in 2017, according to price comparison service uSwitch. Britons are heading into the new year with an average credit card debt of £636 after consumers put £11bn on plastic to fund Christmas. In a survey of 1,261 adults, uSwitch estimate [...]
Get lost you old fool – the whisky is to toast at your funeral! December 28, 2016 An old man spends his last days in his bed. Weak yet resigned, he's ready to leave the world. He smells an aroma from the kitchen downstairs. The scent is an old, blended whisky that reminds him of his youth. He just has to have one last nip. Struggling out of bed, he crawls downstairs. Reaching the kitchen, with withering hand, he [...]
UK could save nearly £40bn a year by leaving single market and customs union, claims pro-Brexit campaign group December 27, 2016 The UK could save nearly £40bn a year if it left both the European single market and customs union in a "clean Brexit", pro-leave group Change Britain has claimed in a new report. Change Britain, which is backed by a host of former Leave campaigners including Michael Gove, Nigel Lawson and Gisela Stuart, says cutting loose [...]
Russia plane crash likely not terrorism says intelligence service as fragments of wreckage are found December 26, 2016 Terrorism is not among the main reasons being investigated for the plane crash in Russia which killed 92 people early on Christmas morning according to the country’s defence ministry, as it expands its search in an attempt to locate the aircraft’s black box flight recorder. Russia’s Ministry of Defence has found 86 fragments of the [...]
Boxing Day footfall slump points to domination of the online retailers December 26, 2016 Boxing Day high street retail sales have fallen sharply year on year as UK shoppers stay at home and push online sales to record heights, according to early data. Half day footfall fell by six per cent compared to Boxing Day last year, according to data from retail monitors Springboard. A decline of 16.6 per [...]
Millions of Brits spend holidays at work on Christmas and Boxing Day – with Londoners most likely to have their feet up December 26, 2016 Millions of Brits are spending Christmas and Boxing Day at work, in a growing trend – although Londoners are most likely to have their feet up. Almost six per cent of UK employees work on Boxing Day, while 3.3 per cent work on Christmas Day itself, according to the Office for National Statistics. However, employees [...]
Never mind the Christmas prezzies, here’s Hogmanay. December 25, 2016 Any festive celebration that has two public holidays to recover must be a good one. So Hogmanay definitely qualifies. And then some. It’s the biggest night in Scotland, and with so many Scots around the world, one of the biggest first-footing, toast-making, Auld Lang Syne singing carry-ons on the planet. Historically (and Scotland has tons [...]