Clothing and footwear sales lead declines as shoppers tighten purse strings By MIKE SHEEN Updated: 09:44 GMT, 22 November 2024 British retailers suffered a disappointing start to the sector’s all-important ‘golden quarter’, as pre-Autumn Budget jitters saw shoppers hold off on spending. Retail sales volumes followed a 0.1 per cent rise in September with a…
Former IRA terrorist Dessie Ellis has admitted in a new Mail podcast launching today that he was ‘lucky’ to be cleared over his alleged role in the dual bomb attack on London in 1982 that left 11 people dead. The ex-bombmaker, 71, was extradited to Britain in 1990 to face charges of building the devices…
A British lawyer has died after drinking free shots allegedly laced with deadly methanol during a holiday in Laos. Simone White, 28, from Orpington in Kent, is the fifth tourist to have passed away after falling dangerously ill last week. At least seven others, including other British holidaymakers, remain in hospital following the ‘poisoning’ at…
By CALUM MUIRHEAD Updated: 22:01 GMT, 21 November 2024 Royal Mail has warned of more price hikes as a result of the Chancellor’s National Insurance raid. Martin Seidenberg, head of parent company International Distribution Services (IDS), said it would need to raise prices to offset a £120million hit from measures unveiled in the Budget last…
Crystal Palace footballer Eberechi Eze has also become an investor in Virtue By HARRY WISE Updated: 16:43 GMT, 21 November 2024 A fast-growing energy drinks brand has appointed BrewDog co-founder James Watt as a ‘strategic advisor’ after receiving investment from the Scottish entrepreneur. Virtue Drinks revealed Watt, who quit as the brewer’s chief executive earlier…
By JAMIE BULLEN Published: 07:08 GMT, 21 November 2024 | Updated: 10:22 GMT, 21 November 2024 Advertisement Former deputy prime minister John Prescott has died aged 86 following a battle with Alzheimer’s, his family has announced. The former trade union activist and ex-merchant seaman, who rose to become a key figure of Sir Tony Blair’s…
The US embassy in Kyiv warned staff to shelter fearing a ‘significant air attack’ from Russia after Biden allowed Ukraine to fire long-range missiles deep into Russia. ‘The U.S. Embassy in Kyiv has received specific information of a potential significant air attack on November 20,’ it said in a message on its website. ‘Out of…
By JOHN-PAUL FORD ROJAS Updated: 22:03 GMT, 20 November 2024 Fines: Eon customers who switched supplier or ended contracts did not get final bills within six weeks, as required Power firm Eon Next has agreed to pay out £14.5million after ‘unacceptable’ failures to provide final bills and refund credit balances to almost 250,000 pre-payment meter…
By JESSICA CLARK Updated: 22:03 GMT, 20 November 2024 Embattled housebuilder Vistry has ousted a top executive as it reels from an accounting blunder. The developer yesterday axed the chief operating officer role to ‘ensure closer proximity of the chief executive to the business’. But the move is unlikely to reassure investors who are concerned…
European nations are gearing up for an all-out war on the continent as Ukraine launched US-made missiles into Russia for the first time and Vladimir Putin officially lowered the threshold for Moscow to consider a nuclear strike. Germany‘s foreign minister yesterday vowed her country ‘will not be intimidated’ by Putin, just one day after German…
