Image copyright Getty Images Gambling companies will now face tougher action if they mislead their customers by using unfair small print. They will also be fined for breaking advertising rules and must respond to customer complaints within eight weeks. The Gambling Commission tightened regulations after customers complained that small print allowed companies to withhold winnings. …
Image copyright Getty Images The editor of Waitrose Food magazine, William Sitwell, is standing down with immediate effect after suggesting a series on “killing vegans, one by one”. He was responding to an email pitch from freelance journalist Selene Nelson who had suggested features on plant-based recipes. Sitwell, also a critic on Masterchef, apologised for …
Image copyright Getty Images Sales of Jaguar Land Rover cars have fallen sharply, taking the firm into a loss for the three months to the end of September. The firm blamed lower sales in China for the decline, as well as uncertainty in Europe over diesel and Brexit. Jaguar made a pre-tax loss of £90m …
Image copyright Reuters MPs are stepping up their campaign to get Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg to appear before them to answer questions on data privacy and disinformation. The Commons Digital Culture is joining forces with its Canadian counterpart to hold a joint hearing on 27 November. Its chair Damian Collins has urged Mr Zuckerberg to …
Image copyright Getty Images Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt is looking to hire ambassadors from the UK’s top business leaders. The Secretary of State is expected to announce the creation of almost new 1,000 diplomatic roles in a speech on Wednesday. For the first time, some of these jobs will be available to non-civil servants. Mr …
Philip Hammond opened his Budget speech “for Britain’s future” and said it would be for “the strivers, the grafters and the carers”. The chancellor spoke of hard-working families “who care little for the twists and turns of Westminster politics” and told them that the “era of austerity is finally coming to an end”. BBC Budget …
Image copyright Getty Images The way in which home and car insurance policies are priced is to be studied by the Financial Conduct Authority. The regulator said it would look at scale of any harm to consumers from pricing practices, whom it affects and, if required, what actions should be taken to improve the market. …
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Japan has one of the world’s most reliable railways and is known for its Shinkansen bullet trains A Japanese railway firm has stopped an unusual training drill that required employees to crouch in tunnels while trains rushed past to “feel” the wind speed. The West Japan Railway said the …
The government will not enter into further Private Finance Initiative projects, but will honour those underway, the chancellor announced in the Budget. Philip Hammond said 90% of them were signed by the Blair-Brown government, and ending them would be “putting another legacy of Labour behind us”. Labour’s policy is to bring existing PFI contracts “back …
Politics Live presenter Andrew Neil goes through the key announcements from the chancellor in his 2018 Budget. Source by [author_name]