Irwin Mitchell hands staff £900 bonuses to get through UK’s cost-of-living crunch April 20, 2022 UK law firm Irwin Mitchell is set give its staff a £900 bonus each, to deal with the UK’s cost-of-living crisis. Staff working at the firm are set to receive a one-off payment on top of their April salaries to cover the costs of higher food and fuel prices. The firm said the one-off payments [...]
City braces for BoE rate hike and mini-budget September 19, 2022 The City is bracing for a bumper week of economic data and policy announcements in a trading week shortened by the UK bank holiday for The Queen’s funeral. London’s premier FTSE 100 index posted mixed performance last week, initially jumping higher before closing 1.56 per cent lower at 7,236.68 points. Its mid-cap domestically-focused counterpart, the [...]
Severing business ties with China risks weighing on UK economy, says CBI boss July 30, 2022 Severing ties with Chinese business risks weighing on the UK’s cost of living crisis, the boss of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has cautioned today. Worsening relations between Beijing and the West has piled scrutiny onto Chinese businesses and investments, including the move in 2020 to remove Shenzhen-based Huawei from UK 5G infrastructure, and [...]
The London restaurants with Christmas food menus to book now November 23, 2023 These London restaurants have amazing Christmas food menus
Some parts of UK to have zero trains this weekend with rail strike to disrupt London Marathon September 25, 2022 Passengers are warned that some parts of the UK will have zero trains during a strike by the rail unions in the long-running dispute over pay, jobs and conditions. Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT), Aslef, the Transport Salaried Staffs Association and Unite will walk out on Saturday October 1, with further [...]
Oil bosses dubbed ‘the new oligarchs’ as political focus on windfall tax for energy giants grows May 12, 2022 Conservative MP Robert Halfon this morning labelled oil company bosses “the new oligarchs” as he called on the Government to hit them with a windfall tax. Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme, he said the Government had done “a fair bit” to tackle the cost-of-living crisis but that families were still struggling with food [...]
Fintech won’t be derailed by recessions – but it still needs strong regulation to thrive March 2, 2023 Fintech will survive the current economic challenges - it always does. But in order to reach it full potential, it needs strong compliance and regulation to ensure trust, writes Dima Kats
Letters: Housing, interrupted April 5, 2022 [Re: House price growth hits highest level since 2004 with record average of £265.3k, March 31] New figures released by the Nationwide house price index defy premature predictions of slowing prices in early 2022. An increase in average house prices of 20 per cent in the last two years is a shocking figure which coincides [...]
What we’ll be eating in 2023: A guide to top new food trends, from seaweed to set menus January 5, 2023 London is one of the dining capitals of the world, representing every corner of global cuisine and sending ripples across the world with its food trends. We asked some top chefs what they think will be the big food trends of 2023, with answers ranging from lots more seaweed to a resurgence of “proper” Neopolitan [...]
Green levies should be taken off energy bills to ease costs, says think tank May 18, 2022 Green levies should be scrapped from bills and shifted on to general taxation to reduce the burden on households, argues the CPS.