Supermarket giant Tesco launched a new offensive in its commercial battle with German rivals Lidl and Aldi this week with the launch of a new chain of low cost stores. Chatteris in Cambridgeshire was chosen as the site for the first Jack’s store and a second will follow soon in Immingham, Lincolnshire. The stores are named […]
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High air pollution levels could be a contributory factor in the onset of dementia, a new study from Kings College London suggested this week. Data collected in the capital appeared to show that people aged over 50 living in areas with high nitrogen dioxide levels (NOx) had a 40 per cent higher risk of developing […]
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MPs have called for regulations to protect investors in Bitcoin and other digital currencies, describing the market as a “wild west” that aids money laundering. Members of the Commons Treasury Committee say that at present investors are unprotected as cryptocurrencies are not regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The committee has produced a report […]
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Environment Secretary Michael Gove has been criticised after he refused to condemn Conservative MEPs who opposed aEuropean Parliament censure motion against Hungary and its Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Mr Orbán’s ruling Fidesz Party have taken the country down an increasingly right-wing route and the European Parliament had initiated a disciplinary procedure against Hungary for potentially […]
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A hard Brexit would cost car maker Honda tens of millions of pounds in extra tariffs, the company warned today. Honda, which employs 3,500 people at its plant in Swindon, Wiltshire, predicted that its costs would go up by around ten per cent if the UK cannot secure an exit deal with the EU. Despite […]
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New Government proposals to redraw constituency boundaries for the House of Commons would have given the Conservatives a comfortable majority at the last election. The number of seats would fall from 650 to 600 under the plans, with the constituencies of some leading MPs disappearing. The proposed new-look constituency map is an attempt to even […]
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The UKIP leader Gerard Batten appeared to signal that his party was shifting further to the right when he joined an anti-Islam demonstration alongside a federation of football fans. There were three arrests at the weekend demo in Sunderland, according to Sky News, as the Democratic Football Lads Alliance (DFLA) scuffled with police who were […]
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