Image caption Matilda Ryley-Hicks and her partner Frank Halton share their experience on Watchdog Live Leading restaurant and coffee shop chains are giving out incorrect allergy advice, BBC Watchdog Live has found. Posing as customers with food allergies, journalists secretly filmed staff at Frankie & Benny’s, Pizza Hut, Nandos, Pizza Express, Starbucks and Costa. The …
Image copyright Getty Images There is a “real prospect” of “major disruption” at UK ports in the case of a no-deal Brexit, according to MPs. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said government preparations for avoiding disruption around major ports were “worryingly under-developed”. Committee members also said there was a “real risk” the Department for Transport …
Image copyright Harriet Gordon Image caption Harriet Gordon says clothes don’t look the same on her as they do on models Serial returners, people who buy items and then return them, are on the rise, putting already struggling shops under pressure. But why do people do it and how should shops handle them? Harriet Gordon, …
Image copyright Parliament TV Image caption Richard Allan, vice-president of policy solutions, appeared before the committee Politicians from nine countries reacted angrily to the absence of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg at a hearing today. The event is part of an unprecedented international inquiry into disinformation and fake news. Richard Allan, Facebook’s vice-president of policy solutions, …
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The new search app would block search terms like human rights and religion Staff at Google have called on the search giant to end work on a controversial search engine project for China. Called Dragonfly, the search engine would be a censored version developed with the aid of the …
Image copyright House of CB Image caption Conna Walker is the 26-year-old CEO of House of CB At 17 years old, Conna Walker not only had school work and the stresses of teenage life to deal with, but her own business to run too. Using her parents’ background as market traders for inspiration, she started …
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Image copyright AFP/Getty Image caption Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly is one of the plants where GM will stop production US President Donald Trump has escalated his attack on General Motors (GM) a day after the carmaker announced major job cuts. Mr Trump wrote on Twitter that he was “very disappointed” and “looking at cutting all GM subsidies, …
Image copyright Getty Images Does being a founder and executive chairman of a company worth about $400bn (£313bn), with a personal wealth said to be about $35bn, put you at odds with being a member of a communist party whose leader wants to “develop China, develop socialism and develop Marxism”? Or, put more simply, why …