Glencore share price slips back while reports suggest it held a secret meeting with investors September 29, 2015 Embattled Glencore reportedly held a secret meeting with an influential investor trade body yesterday, over the commodities miner and trader's £1.6bn share placing earlier this month. A meeting took place between the Investment Association – whose members manage £5.5 trillion of client assets – and John Burton, Glencore's company secretary, according to Sky News. The summit focused [...]
Ministers reject plea that Lord Burns carry on as Channel 4 chairman September 29, 2015 Lord Burns is to step down as Channel 4 chairman after ministers overruled a recommendation by the media regulator that he stay on to steer the broadcaster through the BBC Charter Review next year. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) rejected a suggestion from Ofcom that Burns should be granted a year-long extension, [...]
Total supermoon lunar eclipse 2015 in pictures: Rare super blood moon rises around the world September 28, 2015 Amateur astronomers around the world had cause to cheer overnight, as a “super blood moon” made a rare appearance in the night skies early on Monday morning. The astronomical phenomenon occurs when a total lunar eclipse coincides with a supermoon as some sunlight still illuminates the moon, causing it to turn red as it passes through [...]
Super blood moon lunar eclipse September 2015 UK: How to watch and what time to see the supermoon total eclipse live online if the weather’s bad September 27, 2015 It might be worth dragging yourself out of bed early on Monday morning to see the “super blood moon”, an astronomical phenomenon that hasn’t happened since 1982 – and won’t be seen again until 2033. The moon will turn blood red as it passes through the shadow of the earth at 3.47am on Monday morning. [...]
Supermoon total lunar eclipse 2015 UK date and time: How and where to watch 28 September’s “super blood moon” from Birmingham to London September 26, 2015 A supermoon total lunar eclipse, or “super blood moon”, will occur in the early hours of Monday morning – an extremely rare and special event that will be viewable (depending on cloud cover) from the UK. Only five total lunar eclipses have coincided with a supermoon since 1900. The last time it occurred was in [...]
Fuller’s and Young’s vying to purchase London’s Cubitt House September 24, 2015 FULLER, Smith & Turner and Young’s – two of Britain’s largest pub groups – are competing to acquire a collection of popular London drinking venues. In a move that highlights continuing demand for premium sites in the sector, the groups are vying to buy Cubitt House, which owns three pubs in Belgravia, Central London, and [...]
BMW share price falls amid reports that its X3 xDrive model’s emissions exceeded EU limit September 24, 2015 BMW's share price plummeted this morning amid claims that one of its diesel vehicles exceeded the EU's emissions limit. The German car giant's stock fell as much as 7.3 per cent this morning, although staged a slight recovery to a drop of around six per cent at pixel time. The company was hit after reports [...]
The future’s bright, the future’s lighting: How new technology is brightening up our cities September 24, 2015 New lighting technologies are transforming the way our cities look at night. Alex Dymoke considers what’s in store. II was astonished,” wrote the German diarist Karl Philipp Moritz in 1782, “at the admirable manner in which the streets are lighted up, compared to which our streets in Berlin make a most miserable show.” His [...]
PPI mis-selling claims deadline: Britain’s biggest banking scandal could soon be coming to an end September 24, 2015 The end of the £25bn payment protection insurance (PPI) mis-selling scandal could be in sight, with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) set to meet today to discuss potentially imposing a deadline for claims. The regulator’s management will discuss the possibility of a ‘time-bar exercise’ during a board meeting today, according to Sky News. Banks will [...]
London can come out on top in the era of job-killing robots September 23, 2015 Scary, scary robots. If you believe the hype, robots are coming for your job, your society and everything you hold dear. A widely publicised report argued that 35 per cent of jobs in the UK could be destroyed by automation and computerisation (which is what “robots” have come to mean in the shorthand of [...]