Night-time sector readies legal challenge to local lockdown plans
Bosses in the night-time sector are set to mount a legal challenge against the Government's "catastrophic" local lockdown plans, as...
Day: October 12, 2020
AI and shifting demographics offer bright future beyond Covid gloom
While we all have to get to grips with this grim prospect, it is often helpful to lift our sights...
Mars partners with Disney for Halloween short film series amid altered holiday
Dive Brief: Candy maker Mars is sponsoring the Bite Size Halloween series, which showcases short films to help families celebrate...
Spectre of negative rates sends a chill through Britain’s banks
In 1984 Birmingham-based Midland Bank, then one of the UK’s big four banking groups, made a radical decision that fundamentally...
Finance adviser fears for the future of young people ‘stuck at home’
“I do feel very sorry for younger people in this business,” says Malik Karim, the founder of Fenchurch Advisory Partners....
Why chasing high yields no longer always pays off for buy-to-let landlords
Hamptons compared the number of newly agreed lets in the top and bottom deciles according to the government’s Index of...
Over half of young first time-buyers reliant on the Bank of Mum and Dad
More than half of young first-time buyers need financial support from parents in order to achieve their dreams of home ownership....
How Cineworld was left shaken by a toxic cocktail
Supporters of the deal say the timing has been terrible. “Hindsight is a wonderful thing, the timing was very unfortunate,”...
Can Apple’s new iPhone come to the rescue of 5G?
Few technologies have been pushed with as much fanfare as 5G. The high-capacity and low-latency signals, which means both that...
Countdown may already have begun over sale of Channel 4
Channel 4 has been holding its own. Sales at the not-for-profit broadcaster were up 2pc to £975m in 2018. The...
