Business

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Biffa is the second largest recycling company in the UK Waste management giant Biffa has been fined £350,000 for trying to send household rubbish to China as paper fit for recycling. The bales being shipped from Felixstowe port in Suffolk contained nappies, wet wipes and condoms, inspectors found. Biffa […]

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionFormer Thomas Cook cabin crew manager Steve Kearney says the situation seems “desperate”. Former Thomas Cook employee Steve Kearney says he may struggle to make ends meet given that staff of the failed tour operator have not been paid. Mr Kearney said he cried as he joined

Image caption Claire Hoang says managers told her: “Don’t worry, we’ll sort it out”. More than 100 former Thomas Cook staff are taking legal action after losing jobs at the collapsed travel giant. They believe the firm acted unlawfully in the way they were dismissed and have appointed lawyers to seek redress through an employment

The Bank of England may need to cut interest rates should Brexit uncertainty persist, one of its policymakers has said. Even if the UK avoids a no-deal Brexit, rates may still need to be cut, Michael Saunders said. Interest rates have been on hold at 0.75% since August 2018, when they were raised from 0.5%.

Image copyright Getty Images The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) says it has now flown a total of 61,000 Thomas Cook customers back to the UK, taking the total to 40% of passengers. On Thursday it used 69 flights to bring back 15,000 people as part of its repatriation scheme following the collapse of the holiday

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The Qasr al-Farid tomb in Madain Saleh is a Unesco World Heritage site Saudi Arabia will open its doors to international tourists for the first time as part of a broader push to cut its economic dependence on oil. On Friday, the kingdom will launch a visa regime for

Stephen Parker was passionate about coding from early childhood and dreamed of creating a software company like his idol, Bill Gates. But he was also very attached to his home town of Stoke-On-Trent. So it became his life’s mission to create a ‘Silicon Stoke’ software giant. Produced, filmed and edited by Dougal Shaw This video

Image copyright Ben Hammersley Image caption Ben Hammerseley who inadvertently christened the podcast One night 15 years ago journalist Ben Hammersley was on a deadline at the Guardian newspaper, writing a column on internet radio blogs. He filed the piece and then, just as he was packing up, got a last minute call from the

Image copyright Trump Organisation Image caption The Trump Estate is the branding for the planned housing project The Trump Organisation’s plans for hundreds of new homes at its Aberdeenshire golf resort have been approved. The application features 550 houses at the Menie Estate, as well as shops and food outlets. Branded The Trump Estate, the

Image copyright Getty Images Customers of NatWest’s online business banking service have seen other companies’ balances and transactions after logging in. Bankline allows online management of accounts and says on its website that it offers “security you can trust”. But customers said that after logging in, they had seen details of a different account holder.