The U.S. economy added far more jobs than expected in September, pointing to a vital employment picture as the unemployment rate edged lower, the Labor Department reported Friday. Nonfarm payrolls surged by 254,000 for the month, up from a revised 159,000 in August and better than the 150,000 Dow Jones consensus forecast. The unemployment rate…
Women who are concerned about lumps in their breasts will be able to book an appointment to see a specialist via the NHS app, without seeing a GP first, in a pilot scheme aimed at speeding up cancer diagnoses. Wes Streeting, the health secretary, announced the move in a speech to hundreds of family doctors…
A former police leader has been found to have committed gross misconduct after making a sexual remark about an officer’s widow. John Apter, the former chair of the Police Federation of England and Wales, was alleged to have told colleagues he would like to “comfort” Lissie Harper in his hotel room, months after her husband…
Bar chart American employers added 254,000 jobs last month in the penultimate jobs report before the US election, defying fears of a slowdown in the labor market. Job creation unexpectedly accelerated in September, while the headline unemployment rate slipped to 4.1% from 4.2% in August. Economists had expected a non-farm payrolls reading of just 132,500…
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell. Spirit Airlines , JetBlue – Spirit plunged more than 38% following a report from The Wall Street Journal that the discount airliner is considering filing for bankruptcy. Shares of peer airline firm JetBlue, which was previously in talks to merge with Spirit, advanced nearly 6%. Summit…
Contestants gearing up for this year’s conker tournaments have been forced to freeze the seeds they use to compete, after stormy weather caused them to drop earlier than normal. Every autumn hundreds of people compete at conkers, a traditional British children’s game in which participants use a conker threaded on to string to strike their…
The £2.5bn acquisition by the UK’s biggest housebuilder, Barratt, of its smaller rival Redrow has been given the green light by the UK’s competition watchdog. The Competition and Markets Authority said it had decided to accept undertakings made by the two companies to address its concerns over a potential local competition issue, which means the…
Two former Metropolitan police officers sacked over a stop and search involving the British athlete Bianca Williams have been handed back their jobs after winning an appeal. PCs Jonathan Clapham and Sam Franks were dismissed in October last year after being found by a disciplinary tribunal to have lied about smelling cannabis after pulling over…
The millionaire tech tycoon Mike Lynch’s cause of death has been recorded as drowning after the Bayesian superyacht disaster but his daughter’s cause of death is still under investigation, an inquest has heard. Seven of the 22 people onboard the Bayesian died when it sank in a storm in August. On Friday, inquests into the…
Boris Johnson has called for a referendum on Britain’s membership of the European convention on human rights, a move likely to increase pressure on those vying for the Conservative leadership to follow suit. The former prime minister told the Daily Telegraph there was a “strong case” for a vote on the ECHR, which some Tories…
