Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley pressured by MPs over factory worker’s safety By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 GMT, 25 March 2020 | Updated: 21:54 GMT, 25 March 2020 Sports Direct has been pressured by MPs to explain what it is doing to protect its workers from coronavirus. Mike Ashley, boss of … Read more
First Direct PULLS current account and its £100 switch bonus for new customers as it focuses on existing ones amid coronavirus outbreak The HSBC-owned bank has said its current account is ‘temporarily unavailable’ It has 1.45m customers and is known for its top customer service HSBC and NatWest have also pulled switch bonuses as banks … Read more
Piers Morgan has promised to pay parking tickets for NHS workers as it emerges medics are being fined at hospital car parks during the coronavirus crisis. Speaking on Good Morning Britain today, Mr Morgan asked why traffic wardens – who he said were ‘top of [his] list’ for non-essential workers – are operating when the … Read more
Lenders cash in on coronavirus: HSBC, First Direct and M&S Bank increase overdraft charges up to 39.9% amid crisis while Halifax and Lloyds are set to do same next month Rates on 3-year loans have gone up since December, with some of cheapest offers withdrawn in recent days Overdraft rates will quadruple in some cases … Read more
Bosses at Sports Direct have said all stores will remain open because selling sporting and fitness equipment makes the company a vital asset during a national shutdown. Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group, which includes Sports Direct and Evans Cycles, wrote to all workers within 30 minutes of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to shut down all … Read more
Hit the sun, straight from your doorstep: The new direct flight routes from local airports for summer 2020 Ryanair is launching flights from Liverpool to the port city of Zadar, Croatia Head to the Greek island of Skiathos on the new TUI flights from Bournemouth EasyJet has direct flights from Belfast to Turkey’s Dalaman airport … Read more
Diets improve BRAIN as well as body: Cutting back on fat and sugar has a ‘direct relationship’ with good mental health and cognitive function Scientists looked at past research to see how food affected mental health They found there were definite links in some areas and vaguer in others The Mediterranean diet was found to … Read more
Direct London to Sydney flights a step closer with Qantas set to test Dreamliners on the route and monitor passenger wellbeing Qantas is set to start testing the 19-hour flight from London to Sydney in October In-flight research will be conducted to ensure passenger and crew health The test flights will only have 40 people on … Read more
Four thousand miles is a long way to go for a Shag – the dance that is – but Charleston is definitely worth the journey. The alluring South Carolina city, named after Charles II, is home to the six count, eight step moves and it’s easy to fall into line with the pace and sway … Read more
Online hotel booking websites are good at making you think you’re getting a bargain. And they want you to move fast because, as they put it, ‘there are only two rooms left’ and the hotel is experiencing ‘high demand’. But last week, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced that it will take ‘enforcement action … Read more