Image copyright Corbis Image caption Virgin and Stagecoach’s West Coast line has seen a payout of £51.2m Virgin Trains and Stagecoach shared in £51.2m worth of dividends from the West Coast main line railway, shortly before walking away from another franchise. Virgin Rail Group’s dividends, for the year ending 31 March 2018, are almost double …
Image caption Universal Wealth Management is now closed and 100 staff have lost their jobs The collapse of an inheritance planning firm that has left dozens of clients fearing for their life savings is being investigated by police. Universal Wealth Management ran seminars called Keep It In The Family, in which they promised to protect …
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Patisserie Valerie was saved from the brink of collapse by a £20m loan from its chairman The board of Patisserie Valerie discovered the existence of two “secret” company bank overdrafts this week, according to boss Luke Johnson. The entrepreneur told the Sunday Times that £9.7m had been spent in …
Image copyright Facebook Image caption People working in content moderation see the worst that the internet can throw at them “When I left, I didn’t shake anyone’s hand for three years. I’d seen what people do and how disgusting they are. I didn’t want to touch anyone. I was disgusted by humanity.” Roz Bowden is …
Image copyright NurPhoto For many Canadians, the idea of legal cannabis once seemed a pipe dream. But from 17 October, Canada will become the first G7 country to give recreational cannabis the green light. It’s following a trail first blazed by Uruguay in 2013. “It’s becoming a serious industry,” says one entrepreneur. Supporters say legalisation …
Image copyright Getty Images The £50 note will not be scrapped and will instead get a plastic redesign, the Bank of England has said. Fears that the largest denomination was widely used by criminals and rarely for ordinary purchases had prompted a proposal to abolish it. But ministers said the new version, to be printed …
Image caption Vandana Pankhania Radia says she would use the new app Supermarket customers may soon have to get used to a new way of paying for their shopping. Marks & Spencer has become the latest food retailer to test an app which allows people to buy their shopping without having to use a till. …
Image copyright Getty Images Reddit groups might help, while Instagram influencers could set unrealistic expectations. So is it ever useful to turn to social media for diet advice? There are a dizzying number of people, companies and accounts hawking diet advice online. To take just one example, a quick search for the hashtag #fitspiration on …
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionSpaceX lights up the skies over California Elon Musk’s SpaceX company has successfully launched a satellite into space from California – wowing social media users in the process. The Falcon 9 rocket took Argentine satellite SAOCOM 1A into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base, on the coast …
Image copyright other Microsoft is ending support for Minecraft on Apple TV. The app arrived on the device two years ago and cost £20 in the UK. In an on-screen message to players the firm said it was “reallocating resources” to more popular platforms, and while the game would work on the device, it would …