Tucking into a tub of Quality Street is a Christmas tradition for many British families, and once they have scoffed the chocolates the handy container often takes on a new life, being used for many years as a cake tin or Lego storage box. But the useful plastic tub could be looking at its last…
Chinese stocks have suffered their worst fall in 27 years after efforts by Beijing to stimulate the world’s second-largest economy disappointed investors. Stock markets in Asia fell sharply after China’s top economic planning authority failed to announce further measures to improve flagging growth. On Tuesday, the National Development and Reform Commission held a press conference…
The transport secretary is considering extending the HS2 line to Euston, her cabinet colleague Lisa Nandy has indicated, after Louise Haigh claimed it would make “absolutely no sense” to have the high-speed route terminate outside central London. Haigh also hinted at a cut-price “HS2-lite”, which would involve constructing a new section between Birmingham and Crewe…
Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland, celebrating ‘100 Years of Wonder.’ Aaronp/bauer-griffin | Gc Images | Getty Images Price hikes are coming to Disneyland. While the California-based park’s entry-level ticket will remain at $104, the same price it’s been for six years, other ticket tiers, which are based on demand, will jump between $7 and $12,…
Rio Tinto is to buy the US company Arcadium Lithium for $6.7bn (£5.1bn), in a huge bet on the energy transition despite global headwinds in the electric car market. The Anglo-Australian metals and mining company said it would pay $5.85 a share for the US-based lithium miner. That represents an almost 90% premium to Arcadium’s…
Boeing said on Tuesday that it had withdrawn its pay offer to about 33,000 US factory workers and no further negotiations were planned with their union representatives as a strike nears its fourth week. Boeing and the union held their latest round of negotiations with federal mediators on Monday and Tuesday, but talks collapsed and…
The government’s official climate watchdog has appointed the head of the energy industry’s trade association to lead its work helping to drive the UK’s emissions to net zero by 2050. Emma Pinchbeck, the head of Energy UK, will take up the role of chief executive of the Climate Change Committee (CCC) from early next month…
The UK advertising watchdog has cracked down on marketing campaigns by telecoms companies including BT, EE, Virgin Media and O2 for misleading consumers about price rises added to their bills during their contracts. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has issued a batch of rulings against ads run by BT, its subsidiaries EE and Plusnet, as…
A study by the UK’s biggest food bank network, Trussell, estimates one in seven of the UK population are struggling in a category of deep poverty it calls “hunger and hardship”. But what does it mean, who is affected by it, and why? What is hunger and hardship? The term was created by Trussell to…
Florida’s sports betting market may be about to get a lot more interesting, with Hard Rock’s chairman opening the door to partnerships with commercial sportsbooks. Hard Rock has the monopoly on sports betting in the state, winning the exclusive tribal gaming compact following a hard-fought battle against Flutter-owned FanDuel, DraftKings and Penn Entertainment. The sportsbooks…
