Audi Sport celebrates 40 years with special RS E-Tron GT December 18, 2023 The price to own one of the four UK examples of this rare commemorative RS E-Tron GT will be £150,630 – around £30,000 more than the standard car.
Drax rules out power cuts as Unite announce nine days of strikes at energy plant February 8, 2023 There is no threat to electricity supplies to homes and businesses, argued energy giant Drax, despite Unite's calls for strikes.
3,000 jobs at risk as Tata Steel ‘presses ahead with plan to close furnaces’ January 18, 2024 Steel giant Tata is to press ahead with plans to close blast furnaces at its biggest plant, threatening more than 3,000 jobs, according to sources. Unions were meeting the company on Thursday after presenting alternative proposals aimed at saving jobs in Port Talbot, south Wales. Sources said Tata rejected the plan and were pressing ahead [...]
Harland & Wolff: Propping up Titanic shipbuilder posed ‘substantial risk taxpayer cash would be lost’ July 22, 2024 The Belfast shipyard, which built the Titanic, is facing collapse after the new Labour government refused to guarantee a critical £200m loan.
Kane ‘heartbroken’ as beaten finalists England fly home from Euro 2024 July 15, 2024 For the second European Championship in a row England fell short by the finest of margins.
Wilko: On-the-brink retailer missed out on £40m in sale of flagship depot August 20, 2023 Wilko’s sale of its flagship depot has returned to the spotlight as the deal appears to show how the business allegedly missed out on £40m amid a period when it was desperately trying to shore up cash. Last November, the troubled high street store offloaded its 1.1m sq ft warehouse in Nottinghamshire for £48m to [...]
Hundreds of Amazon warehouse workers continue walkout over pay August 4, 2022 Amazon workers at an Essex warehouse are walking out for a second day on Thursday, in a protest calling for a “drastic” pay improvement. On Wednesday night and Thursday, around 400 workers at the Tilbury operation walked out over the US tech giant’s offer of a 35p per hour pay offer. Workers in the GMB [...]
Wilko shakes up rent payments as it eyes cashflow ahead of Christmas September 11, 2022 High street giant Wilko is shaking up its rent payments schedule in a bid to conserve cash in the run up to Christmas. The garden and home retailer told landlords that it would now unilaterally pay its quarterly rent bill in monthly instalments to manage the firm’s cashflow: heralding a difficult time moving forward for [...]
BA workers join the industrial action wave by voting in favour of strike June 23, 2022 British Airways (BA) workers are set to join the wave of industrial action that is bringing the country to a standstill after members of the unions GMB and Unite have voted in favour of strike action. The unions announced the results this afternoon, with GMB’s national officer Nadine Houghton saying 95 per cent of those [...]
Workers give Amazon until Wednesday to present improved offer after Tilbury strike August 7, 2022 Workers have given Amazon until Wednesday to present an improved pay offer after staff walked out last week over salaries, City A.M. understands. Around 450 workers at the Tilbury warehouse went on strike on Wednesday night and Thursday after Amazon responded to demands for a pay increase with a 35p per hour raise. Members of [...]