Evening Standard falls to £17m loss as lockdown hits commuting July 7, 2021 The Evening Standard plunged to a £17.2m loss last year as repeated lockdowns and work-from-home orders hit the freesheet’s commuting readership. Revenue for the year dropped by almost a third to £44m in the year to the end of September as lower reader numbers were compounded by a slump in advertising spend. The pre-tax loss [...]
Wag vs Wag: Coleen Rooney claims dismissed in libel battle against Rebekah Vardy July 7, 2021 London’s High Court threw out parts of Coleen Rooney’s defence in her ongoing libel battle against Rebekah Vardy this morning. Rooney, 35, accused Vardy, 39, of leaking “false stories” about her private life in October 2019 after carrying out a months-long “sting operation” which saw her dubbed “Wagatha Christie”. Vardy, who is married to Leicester [...]
Dutch investigative journalist Peter R de Vries fighting for his life after assassination attempt July 7, 2021 The well-known Dutch crime journalist Peter R de Vries was rushed to the hospital last night after being shot in Amsterdam minutes after he left a TV studio. According to Dutch media, Five shots were fired at with close range, while police confirmed later that evening they had arrested three people in connection with the [...]
Brewing up a storm: Brewdog berated over hard seltzer ‘health’ claims July 7, 2021 Brewdog has been given a rap on the knuckles for making health claims in an advert for its alcoholic hard seltzer drink — despite the ad stating “we cannot claim this drink is healthy”. In an Instagram post published in January, Brewdog shared a picture of a can of its Clean & Press Hard Seltzer, [...]
PR giant Teneo names Ursula Burns as new chair amid misconduct scandal July 6, 2021 Teneo has named Ursula Burns as its new chair as the PR giant looks to restore its reputation in the wake of a misconduct scandal surrounding one of its founders. The company, which describes itself as a global CEO advisory firm, today announced the appointment of Burns with immediate effect. It comes a week after [...]
Sadiq Khan: Londoners who get their first Covid vaccine can win Euro 2020 final tickets July 6, 2021 The Mayor of London is putting up tickets to the Euro 2020 final that Londoners have a chance to win if they sign up for their first vaccine. As part of a drive to get more Londoners vaccinated, Sadiq Khan is putting up one pair of tickets for Sunday’s final at Wembley and 50 pairs [...]
Gary Lineker still BBC’s top paid star despite pay cuts July 6, 2021 Gary Lineker is still the BBC’s highest-paid star despite taking a pay cut last year as the corporation looks to slim down its hefty wage bill. The former England footballer and Match of the Day presenter earned £1.36m, the BBC’s latest annual report showed, down from £1.75m the previous year. It comes after Lineker, who [...]
One-in-four UK financial services workers want to work from home full-time, says new survey July 5, 2021 Almost one-in-four of the UK’s financial services workforce wants to work at home permanently post-pandemic, according to a new survey from Accenture. The survey found 24 per cent of the country’s 1m financial services workers “would prefer to work entirely from home once a full return to office is possible”, while 69 per cent said [...]
Six UK cases: Fast-spreading Lambda variant puzzles Covid scientists due to ‘unusual set of mutations’ July 4, 2021 A Covid-19 variant called Lambda has left Scientist from the World Health Organisation puzzled due to its ‘unusual set of mutations’. The Lambda strain, denoted as C.37, was first discovered in Peru and has spread to nearly 30 countries in the last four weeks, including Argentina and Chile, according to the Financial Times this weekend. [...]
Saturday essay: It’s easy to hate social media, to truly make it work we need to learn to love it July 3, 2021 It’s fashionable to be irrationally critical of social media. Almost every policy relating to social media serves to restrain, rather than nurture it. The image of online platforms, amongst politicos and policymakers, is often that it is nothing more than an inflammatory cesspit of trolls and creeps who debase every conversation with racist and sexist [...]