Shoppers are scrambling to buy “Kevin the carrot” soft toy featured in Aldi’s Christmas advert. Customers of the discount chain have taken to social media to complain that supplies of Kevin, his wife Katie and three baby carrots have run out. The £3.99 version is not available online and there are reports of queues and …
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Image copyright Getty Images As Americans gather with their family and friends for Thanksgiving dinner, they’re being fed some grim home truths from the Pew Research Centre. Asked to rate what gave their life meaning, researchers found more people mentioned career and money, than friends or religion. Two-thirds of those surveyed said family was a …
Image caption About a third of Britain’s energy needs are met using gas from the Bacton terminal The energy giant Shell is to increase the amount of gas processed at a Norfolk terminal by 16% – securing its future for “decades to come”. The firm has spent £300m updating the plant at Bacton to allow …
Image copyright Google Image caption Google said that shopping services are now fairer Google is not complying with European demands that it make the search for products fairer, rivals say. In an open letter to the EU’s competition commissioner, 14 European shopping comparison services said the measures put in place by the search giant to …
Image caption Facebook said it had Mr Soros investigated after he had called it a “menace” One of George Soros’s lieutenants has called on US politicians to probe Facebook, after the social network confirmed that it had hired a PR firm to make claims about the financier. The head of Mr Soros’s grant-making network claimed …
Image copyright PA Noel Edmonds has formally kick-started his legal action against Lloyds Bank as he enters the I’m a Celebrity jungle. The TV personality is seeking £60m over an alleged scam involving staff at the Reading branch of HBOS, which was subsequently bought by Lloyds. He claims his former firm Unique Group was destroyed …
Spending within video games creates “problem gamblers” and must be better regulated, a study has found. Computer scientists from York St John University found a strong link between “loot box” spending and problem gambling. In using loot boxes, players of some online games use real money to access in-game functions – but they do not …
Image copyright Getty Images UK sales at Mothercare fell sharply in the first half of the year, with the mother and baby products retailer blaming “challenging” conditions. The company also cited “negative press coverage” caused by its restructuring in May for the 11.1% drop in UK sales. Mothercare warned it expected its performance to remain …
For the first time in the UK, midwifery students are using Microsoft’s HoloLens technology as part of their training. Students at Middlesex University are shown virtual reality images of what is happening inside the anatomy, with the aim to teach them about all the obstetric emergencies that could occur. The technology costs tens of thousands …