Image copyright PA Image caption The usually low-profile Denise Coates was appointed CBE for services to the community and business in 2012 Denise Coates, the billionaire boss of Bet365, added another £265m to her wealth this week after the company her family founded racked up another year of bumper profits. She’s been called Britain’s most …
Image caption Craig and his partner Tracey by their house Two years after buying their £325,000 house from developers Bovis, Craig Wakeman and partner Tracey Bickford are still waiting to move in after discovering their dream home was riddled with 354 defects, many of them structural. The couple told BBC Radio 5 Live Investigates buying …
Ellie Miller is thought to be Europe’s only female commercial surfboard maker – or shaper, as they are known in the trade. She’s built her specialist business over the past six years and keeps her production line to about 30 boards a year. She describes how she got involved and shares some tips for others …
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Local MPs have criticised the decision to announce job cuts at Vauxhall’s Ellesmere Port plant in the run-up to Christmas Every union worker at Vauxhall’s Ellesmere Port car plant has walked out in protest at planned job cuts. John Cooper from Unite said all 1,100 employees at the site …
Image copyright Getty Images Members of a London community Facebook group are furious after the rights to run it were sold on to another party not from the area. Group members then became angry at claims that the new administrators wanted them to pay to promote their local businesses to each other. Facebook does not …
Image copyright Getty Images UK shoppers on Black Friday have been buying more items but spending less, credit card data suggests. Barclaycard, which processes half of all UK card payments, said that by 15:00 GMT it had seen 10% more transactions from a year earlier. However, the value of spending was down 12% on last …
Image copyright Spark Energy An energy supply company with almost 300,000 customers has ceased trading. Spark Energy Supply is part of a gas and electricity firm which employs more than 300 staff at its Selkirk headquarters. The move comes after the company was handed a £14m bill by the energy regulator Ofgem for non-payment of …
Fancy living in a large period property, offering low rent and lots of space? But it might not have any heating and you could be evicted with just a few days’ notice. Could living in an old school, or even a disused police station be the answer to the UK’s housing crisis? Property guardians are …
Image copyright PA Asda, Morrisons and Sainsbury’s have cut the price of petrol and diesel, as wholesale fuel prices continue to fall. The cuts were led by Asda, which cut the price of petrol by 1p a litre and diesel by 2p a litre. Morrisons and Sainsbury’s then matched that move. It means that Asda …
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Samsung boss Kim Ki-nam delivered the formal apology Samsung has formally apologised to employees who fell sick or died after working in its factories. In the apology, Samsung president Kim Ki-nam said staff and families had “suffered” because the South Korean company had been too slow to act. Earlier this …