The Digital Poverty Alliance and Intel have partnered with Trailblazers Mentoring Charity to launch “Tech4PrisonLeavers”, a scheme which provides young ex-offenders with access to technology and digital skills. The campaign is set to provide a group of 25 men leaving Her Majesty’s Young Offender’s Institution at Brinsford prison in Wolverhampton with devices, connectivity, skills and […]
Hybrid Working is reshaping not only the future of work but also the present. Ronan Copeland, GVP General Manager, EMEA, DocuSign explores how the right digital tools drive employees to create, innovate, and collaborate better. No one can deny the last two years fundamentally changed the world of work. Offices and workspaces closed in favour […]
The Government needs to take care to ensure that responsible buy to let landlords are not burdened with so much regulatory red tape and costs that they decide to sell up – exacerbating the shortage of decent homes to rent. This is the opinion of leading tax and advisory firm Blick Rothenberg. Head of property […]
The housing market is showing signs of cooling, Halifax has said, as households face a squeeze on their finances. The mortgage lender said that while house prices continued to climb in May, with prices up 10.5% in 12 months, this was slowest rate of growth since the start of the year. The rise meant the […]
A former executive at Standard Chartered has been named the new chief executive of the government’s under-fire British Business Bank (BBB). Louis Taylor will be the permanent successor to Keith Morgan, who resigned in 2020. Mr Taylor is the current chief executive of UK Export Finance, the government’s export credit agency. Before joining UK Export […]
The UK will not join the EU in making USB-C charging ports mandatory on all phones and other electronic devices, the government has confirmed. The EU’s rule, announced in Strasbourg on Tuesday, means Apple will have to change the charging port on its devices in all 27 EU countries by 2024. Apple will have to start […]
The crisis threatening Britain’s railways this summer has deepened after train drivers voted to join the biggest rail strikes in a generation. A union leader warned of a “summer of discontent” as drivers on three lines backed industrial action, with the strike ballots expected to spread. The railway walkout, the largest since 1989, will coincide […]
The cost of filling a typical family car with petrol has exceeded an average of £100 for the first time. A litre of petrol cost an average of 182.3p on Wednesday, a jump of 3.8p a litre on the cost at the start of the week, according to Experian Catalist, the data analytics company. The […]
India, the world’s second-largest sugar producer, exported 3.06 million tonne (MT) of the sweetener until June 2 this fiscal — 53% higher than a year before — official sources told FE. The unusual surge lends some credence to the government’s fears that sugar stocks could be substantially depleted by the festival season if outbound shipments […]