2014年12月27日 星期六

2014-12-28 U.K. Business


BBC News
   
City Link: 2000 staff to be made redundant on NYE - RMT   
BBC News
More than 2,000 staff from the collapsed UK parcel delivery service City Link are to be made redundant on New Year's Eve, the RMT union has said. Staff learned on Christmas Day that the company had gone into administration, in a move described as ...

More than 2000 City Link workers set to lose jobs on NYE   ITV News
City Link's closure leaves a million parcels in limbo   The Independent
Vince Cable urged to save City Link staff from New Year's Eve job losses   The Guardian
The Times (subscription)   
shropshirestar.com   
Daily Mail   
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Daily Mail
   
Record Boxing Day sales as bargain hunters 'blow £3BILLION'   
Daily Mail
Boxing Day bargain hunters spent a record £3billion online and in stores across the UK yesterday in the largest sales day for years. But retailers have predicted that with revellers rested after Christmas, and no sporting matches vying for shoppers' attention, ...

Boxing Day sales punters splash out £3billion - but record numbers flock online ...   Mirror.co.uk
Billions Spent On Boxing Day In U.K.   The Inquisitr
Shoppers spend nearly £3bn in Britain's Boxing Day sales   The Independent
Southwales Evening Post   
Belfast Telegraph   
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Yahoo News UK
   
No need for ECB to buy sovereign bonds now - German economic adviser   
Reuters UK
BERLIN (Reuters) - The head of the panel of economic experts that advises the German government said on Sunday there was no reason for the European Central Bank (ECB) to start buying up sovereign bonds now to bolster euro zone growth.
Schaeuble - 'cheap money shouldn't stop reform zeal' in euro zone   Reuters
'Cheap money shouldn't stop reform zeal' in euro zone - Schaeuble   Yahoo News UK

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BBC News
   
Liz Truss: Solar farms in rural areas 'make the heart sink'   
Telegraph.co.uk
Taxpayer subsidies for large-scale solar farms on fields where crops once grew will this week be banned because they are a “blight” on the countryside. Liz Truss, the Environment Secretary, said that the sight of “row upon row” of large-scale solar farms on ...

Rural firms catching up, environment secretary says   BBC News
Countryside to drive UK startups with superfast internet, government says   The Guardian
Countryside 'to match urban areas'   Daily Mail

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This is Money
   
The towns with the fastest house price growth in 2014: Greenwich leads the way ...   
This is Money
The London Borough of Greenwich recorded the largest jump in property values in Britain over the past year, according to research from Halifax. The average house price in the borough is now a whopping 24.6 per cent higher than this time last year, jumping ...

Best places to live in the UK for your property to increase in value   Daily Mail
House prices 'rose by 8.5%' in 2014, Halifax reports   BBC News
House prices: the best and worst performing UK towns   Telegraph.co.uk
Oxford Mail   
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Transport minister calls for transfer of air tax power   
BBC News
Transport Minister Derek Mackay has called for control over air passenger duty (APD) to be devolved to Holyrood immediately. Mr Mackay wants a transfer of powers "to maximise the industry's potential". The Smith Commission, set up to agree further ...

Transport Minister Derek Mackay: Air passenger duty should be devolved now   stv.tv

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The Independent
   
Prostitution, drugs help UK beat France in global wealth league   
Pune Mirror
LONDON Britain's multi-billion pound sex and illegal drug industries have helped it beat France to become the world's fifth largest economy. The latest global economic league table includes a £10 billion boost in UK earnings from drugs and sex - which ...

Counting prostitution and drugs in the GDP figure has seen UK's economy ...   Daily Mail
UK set to overtake France as No. 5 economy: CEBR   Taipei Times
UK Set to Overtake France as World's Fifth-Largest Economy   Businessweek
Free Malaysia Today   
International Business Times UK   
The Guardian   
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Revealed: the best and worst airlines for delays   
The Independent
Millions of Britons have suffered delays of up to several hours at British airports over the past two years, with more than one in three passengers affected, according to new figures. More than one in five (21 per cent) of those whose planes were late had to wait ...

Air travel delay woes revealed   Yeovil Express
20% of all flights to and from the UK are late   Which?
Only a third of delayed air passengers claim money back   ITV News

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Telegraph.co.uk
   
Thousands of travellers stranded as Boxing Day rail chaos bites   
Telegraph.co.uk
Hundreds of thousands of travellers have been left stranded as the main routes on Britain's railways shut down for Boxing Day. And angry passengers vented their disbelief and fury on social media, with many forced to take to the roads instead. The AA ...

Poll: Should trains run on Christmas and Boxing Day?   Metro
Political row erupts over Boxing Day trains   Financial Times
17 train operators have no services at all on Boxing Day   Daily Mail
Express.co.uk   
AOL Travel UK   
Huffington Post UK   
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Mirror.co.uk
   
Government's emergency blackout helpline yet to take a single call   
Telegraph.co.uk
A 999-style emergency blackouts hotline promised in the wake of last year's power cuts has yet to take a single call and will not be up and running until 2016, it has emerged. Labour said future householders suffering from power cuts would be left “in the dark ...

Ministers blasted over delay to UK blackout helpline   Financial Times
Power cuts emergency number will arrive a YEAR later than Government promised   Mirror.co.uk
Power cuts helpline not in operation until April 2016, Labour reveals   The Guardian
Western Morning News   
Express.co.uk   
The Times (subscription)   
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