Image copyright LME The days of long, booze-fuelled City lunches appear to be nearing an end as the London Metal Exchange becomes the latest firm to introduce a booze ban. The exchange has said that all staff who work on its trading floor can no longer drink during working hours. The ban affects about 120 […]
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Image copyright Getty Images Vodafone says it is working to tackle “disruption” to its mobile and fixed-line broadband services. It has experienced a fault with an international link used to transmit data between countries but is rerouting traffic to address the issue. Reports on the DownDetector website indicate that subscribers in the UK, Ireland, Greece,
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Image copyright Getty Images A ban on adverts featuring “harmful gender stereotypes” or those which are likely to cause “serious or widespread offence” has come into force. The ban covers scenarios such as a man with his feet up while a woman cleans, or a woman failing to park a car. The UK’s advertising watchdog
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Jacob Cushley works in a Stonegate pub in Plymouth. He is one of 125,000 UK workers whose employer lets them access part of their salary as they earn it rather than waiting for payday. “It’s helped me out with being able to do things socially and also with some unexpected bills,” he says. “It’s reassuring
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Image caption “Bad May” written across one of the May 2020 pages to be replaced Changing the date of next year’s early May bank holiday will cost one calendar maker about £200,000, it has said. Last week, the government announced the bank holiday, set for Monday 4 May, would be switched to Friday 8 May,
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Image copyright Getty Images A report by the financial watchdog, which recommends no further action against Royal Bank of Scotland’s controversial restructuring business, has been called a “whitewash”. A group of MPs said the Financial Conduct Authority failed to find out whether the bank’s management were involved in the group’s activities. RBS’s Global Restructuring Group
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Image copyright Getty Images Morrisons and Amazon say they will expand their same-day delivery service for groceries to Glasgow, Newcastle, Liverpool, Sheffield and Portsmouth. Morrisons agreed to supply Amazon with groceries in 2016 and the service now includes delivery within the hour for some customers. So far shoppers in Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham and some parts
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Image copyright Jack Taylor Accounting giant PwC has been fined £6.5m over its audit of the cloud computing firm Redcentric. The Financial Reporting Council (FRC), which regulates auditors, reduced the fine to £4.55m after PwC admitted its mistakes. The FRC said some of the breaches were of a “fundamental nature, evidencing a serious lack of
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Image copyright Manuel Blondeau – Corbis Image caption Pavel Durov founded Telegram in 2013 Telegram’s founder Pavel Durov has said a massive cyber attack on his messaging service originated from China. On Wednesday, the firm confirmed it suffered a “powerful” Distributed Denial of Service attack which disrupted services for about an hour. In a DDos
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Image copyright AFP Image caption One of the ships damaged in the 12 May attack off the UAE The US Navy’s 5th Fleet says it is rendering assistance after receiving separate distress calls from two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman. Regional media reported explosions and fires on both vessels, reportedly the Front Altair
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