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A water company boss has blamed people working from home for a new hosepipe ban. South East Water will impose the first hosepipe ban of the summer from Monday, affecting more than two million homes and businesses across Kent and Sussex. Its chief executive, David Hinton, said in a letter to customers that post-pandemic working […]
German-owned discount supermarket Lidl can have an injunction to stop rival Tesco copying its logo, London’s High Court has ruled, despite hearing it will cost Tesco nearly £8m pounds to remove them all. Britain’s biggest retailer Tesco in April lost a trademark lawsuit brought by Lidl after Tesco adopted a yellow circle against a blue […]
Mortgage holders will get a 12-month grace period before banks begin repossessions on their homes, Jeremy Hunt has announced, after a crunch meeting with lenders at No11. The Chancellor said ministers were “particularly worried” about people falling behind on payments or having to switch deals at the end of a fixed rate mortgage. He announced […]
Heathrow airport security staff have called off strikes after voting to accept a pay offer. Around 2,000 members of the Unite union were due to strike on 29 days throughout summer. Unite staff at the airport had already said they would postpone industrial action on 24 and 25 June. The union said that workers had […]
More than 20 councils across England are removing pay and display parking machines and asking people to pay using an app instead. Eight councils – all in London – have already removed all their machines, while 14 have removed some. Councils say this saves money by reducing the risk of theft and avoiding the need […]
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More than 50 per cent of people believe that the UK was wrong to leave the EU seven years on from the referendum, according to a new poll. Based on a survey of 1,525 adults and carried out at the start of June, the poll found that 34 per cent still believe that Brexit was […]
The economy is at a greater risk of falling into a recession in the year ahead as investors expect interest rates to rise to the highest level since 2000 in an effort to quell inflation. The Bank of England sprang a surprise with a bumper half-point interest rate rise, with financial markets expecting at least […]
Ocado shares have surged amid speculation that the online grocer might be the subject of takeover talks from Amazon or another US tech firm. Ocado and Amazon declined to comment on the report in the Times, which sent shares in the struggling firm up more than 40% at one point. They settled more than 30% […]