A huge anti-Brexit message has been ploughed into a field in Wiltshire. Campaign group Led By Donkeys ploughed the words BRITAIN NOW WANTS TO REMAIN in 40 metre high letters, visible from passing aircraft. The move was timed to coincide with the build-up to Saturday’s People’s Vote march in London, and the crucial vote in […]
The practice of creating a will to dispose of your assets dates to ancient Greece. The will as most people know it in the United States can trace its form to 17th-century British law. For centuries, one requirement for a will to be valid, whether it was written by hand, drafted by a lawyer or […]
(Reuters) – Wall Street was set to open flat on Friday, as upbeat earnings reports calmed nerves about the global economy after China expanded at its weakest pace in almost 30 years. Investors are closely watching the health of the world’s second-largest economy as the prolonged trade war with the United States fuels fears about […]
PARIS (Reuters) – Shares in French media group Vivendi (VIV.PA) jumped on Friday after it posted higher third-quarter revenue and said that a potential sale of a stake in its Universal Music Group (UMG) was attracting buyer interest. Vivendi shares were up 2.7% in early trading, the best performer on France’s benchmark CAC-40 index .FCHI, […]
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Asian stocks stumbled on Friday, erasing earlier gains after China posted its weakest growth in nearly three decades, countering a global lift in sentiment on the UK and European Union striking a long-awaited Brexit deal. But the Brexit boost that helped markets on Thursday looks to have faded, with shares in Europe […]
When supermarkets cut prices, they don't do it in quiet small steps – but as nationally announced promises. More than that, they nearly always follow each other – with ASDA normally firing the first salvo of a price war the other major players quickly join. But while the big players duke it out in the […]
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – When Frans Kolkman hung up his police badge in 2017, he was looking forward to a comfortable retirement. Two years later he’s among millions of Dutch pensioners facing a cut and fearing there may be worse to come. The planned reductions, due to take effect from January 2020, have shaken a country […]
Sales of Scottish whisky could drop by 20% within a year due to new tariffs placed on exports to the US, it has been claimed. The tariffs, approved by the World Trade Organisation, have been imposed by the US on £6.1bn of EU exports in response to the bloc’s subsidising of plane-maker Airbus. Other industries […]
Kerry County Council has apologised to a landowner on the proposed South Kerry Greenway for “a genuine” mistake writing to his dead father ‘RIP’ and then inviting the deceased man to a consultation meeting. The Council has also been accused also of “pitting” landowners against each other – a claim that is denied – and […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said on Thursday that China’s “serious commitment” to buy $40 billion to $50 billion worth of U.S. agricultural goods as part of a phase 1 trade deal would depend in part on private companies and market conditions. Speaking to reporters at the White House, Kudlow said […]