Christmas shopping: Argos opens new fulfilment centres in Reading and Birmingham in time for Christmas rush November 3, 2017 Argos has opened two new regional fulfilment centres, boosting its online capacity ahead of the hectic Christmas shopping season. The centres in Birmingham and Reading will add 200,000 square feet of space for products offered on Argos’ next-day and same-day delivery services. Read more: Sainsbury’s suits up: Supermarket to sell smart mens clothes The new [...]
Post Office workers are set to strike over pensions on the busiest day for international Christmas post November 28, 2016 About 720 managers will walk out of Post Offices over pension disputes on the busiest day for international post. The 24-hour strike, set for Saturday, 3 December, is the third instance of industrial action in a long-running pension dispute. The workers are members of Unite, the country's largest union, who join the Communication Workers Union (CWU) to target 300 [...]
Christmas and New Year holidays abroad will boost Gatwick’s total passenger numbers by more than 10 per cent December 12, 2016 More Britons are choosing to spend the winter holidays abroad this year than ever before, boosting passenger numbers at Gatwick Airport. With Christmas and New Year both falling on weekends, significantly more people are jetting off for extended holidays compared to the previous year. Gatwick expects more than a 10 per cent boost to its total passenger numbers as a result. [...]
Interiors: Lykke is set to be the Scandi trend of 2018, but what is it, how do you say it and what does it mean for my dining table? January 19, 2018 Copenhagen is not only one of the world’s style capitals, it’s home to the Happiness Research Institute. CEO, Meik Wiking, finds out and measures what happiness is and generates more of it. We know him as the author of The Little Book of Hygge in which he shares the Danes’ love of cosy – winter [...]
The UK’s late payments culture is the worst in the world – we owe it to SMEs to tackle it December 14, 2017 Every year, UK businesses spend an average of 15 working days chasing late payments. That’s a higher level of wasted time than in any other country in the world. This is unacceptable, and particularly relevant as we approach year-end, a time when businesses are managing a last rush of customer activity and working hard to [...]
Hey, you! You with the hangover! Was your Christmas party a bit much? There is a place in the City you can rent to sleep for an hour December 8, 2017 We’ve all been there: the work Christmas party raged on until the early hours of the morning, but now it’s 8am and you’re back at your desk with a pounding headache. Well, don’t give up and go home just yet, because Pop & Rest has just launched a pod-style hotel at Monument in London offering [...]
Shoppers flocked to St Pancras for luxury goods from John Lewis and Fortnum & Mason over Christmas January 30, 2017 St Pancras International scored an uplift in sales over the festive season, as shoppers flocked to the train station to stock up on Christmas gifts. Over the ten weeks from 29 October to 31 December, St Pancras scored a 6.2 per cent sales growth year-on-year. This compared to a growth of 1.7 per cent across [...]
Orange barmy army: Network Rail spends £103m on Christmas upgrades to rail infrastructure January 3, 2017 Network Rail hailed the success of its "orange army" of workers and revealed it had forked out £103m over the Christmas break upgrading Britain's rail network. The work was carried out at almost 200 locations across the UK. Meanwhile, commuters into London Waterloo will be pleased to hear that £4.5m of work scheduled at the station, or on the tracks [...]
Fitness advice: How to make new year resolutions that actually work, from healthy eating to extra gym sessions January 3, 2018 Feeling déjà vu? Eaten and drunk far too much this December? Feeling super lazy and unhealthy? belly looking slightly bigger? Despite your best laid plans not to overindulge at Christmas, you did anyway, and now it’s 3 January and you’re still feeling rough from new year’s eve, with anxiety levels through the roof and [...]
Flying high: 48-hour walkout by airport staff called off December 20, 2016 Strikes by airport staff which had been planned for 23 and 24 December have been called off. More than 1,500 workers at Swissport, including baggage handlers, cargo crew and check-in staff across 18 airports, had been due to start a 48-hour walkout on Friday in a row over pay. This has now been cancelled following successful [...]