Network Rail’s maintenance staff earn nearly a fifth more than workers doing comparable roles, a new report has found ahead of the next rail strike on Saturday. Rail regulator the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) commissioned independent consultants to establish whether employment costs for more than 64,000 railway workers are higher or lower than …
NEW SUPERMARKET BAN: The ban will stop supermarkets from displaying certain products. (Image by Martin Rickett / PA Wire) Reporting by Andrea Blazquez The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) has implemented a new ban on displaying unhealthy foods from prominent locations in supermarkets. The new rule means that every supermarket in the UK …
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Contractors have launched the first of six machines that will dig the tunnels for London’s new High Speed 2 (HS2) railway. The tunnel-boring machine (TBM) – dubbed Sushila after local teacher Sushila Hirani – was activated near West Ruislip railway station on Thursday. It is one of two TBMs which will dig a five-mile twin-bore …
How hard-up middle class shoppers feeling the pinch are snapping up blankets and one-pot stoves to save on energy costs this winter Sales of portable electric ovens are up 54 per cent this year compared to 2021 55 per cent of people plan to give less presents this Christmas to save cash Sales of heated …
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Top officials at the Federal Reserve on Thursday pushed back on speculation that the US central bank will soon pause its aggressive monetary tightening campaign, emphasizing instead the need for further interest rate increases. In her first public remarks since becoming a governor on the Federal Open Market Committee, Lisa Cook described inflation as a …
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Pittsburgh long symbolized America’s rustbelt, that stretch of the industrial midwest and north-east that once boomed with steel, cars and coal. In recent years, however, the city has been trading a rusty reputation for a robotic sheen. Still known as the Steel City despite no working steel mills, Pittsburgh has the muscular look of an …
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We’ve all seen the pictures of starving polar bears, struggling to survive climate change. But as global temperatures continue to rise, experts say bears today are spending up to a month longer than their parents waiting for the ice to return after summer. Every year, starting in late June when the bay ice disappears, polar …
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EUR / USD FORECAST: EUR tumbles dragged down by broad-based US dollar strength in the FX market EUR / USD maintains a negative outlook in the near-term The US employment report will be a source of volatility for financial markets on Friday Trade Smarter – Sign up for the DailyFX Newsletter Receive timely and compelling …
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Another Bank of England official has weighed in to criticize the government’s mini-budget announcement – rebuking the absence of Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR) input, detailing how the UK bond market reaction was unique, and reiterating the Bank’s resolve to return inflation to 2 %. Jonathan Haskel, a member of the Bank of England‘s interest …
Healthcare unicorn Ro is notifying employees of a data exposure involving their personal information after a security contractor “inadvertently” uploaded a spreadsheet of employee data to the internet. In a data breach notice obtained by TechCrunch from an affected employee who received the notice this week, Ro said it discovered that the contractor uploaded the …
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