Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng is to hold meetings with energy bosses today to address rapidly rising gas and electricity prices. Mr Kwarteng will meet with the bosses of major energy suppliers who are likely to ask the government for tax cuts and the relaxation of green levies. Last week, the industry’s trade body Energy UK
Month: December 2021
New Year’s Eve plans in England have been given the green light, as Sajid Javid confirmed the government will not be imposing any further restrictions before the New Year. The health secretary said people should “remain cautious” when taking part in New Year’s celebrations – and take a lateral flow test before attending events. Mr
Footfall at shopping sites across the UK on Boxing Day fell to almost half of levels seen pre-pandemic, figures show. Shopping centres, usually filled with Boxing Day sale bargain hunters, saw footfall plunge by almost 50% compared to the same day in 2019, while high streets and retail parks saw falls of 38% and 40%.
Liquidators of the Thomas Cook travel empire which became one of Britain’s best-known companies during its 178-year history have launched a bid to offload its stake in the company behind the UK’s air traffic control operations. Sky News has learnt that AlixPartners, the professional services firm, launched a process shortly before Christmas to sell Thomas
A health minister has defended the government’s decision not to offer the hospitality sector more financial support, saying venues remain “pretty full”. Business leaders have issued a fresh call for more economic help for the hospitality sector after fears around the new Omicron variant led to a steep decline in trade in the usually busy
Households face an average hit of £1,200 to their incomes from the double whammy of rising energy bills and taxes, a think tank has said. The Resolution Foundation (RF) says families are facing a “cost-of-living catastrophe” when the energy price cap goes up and National Insurance contributions (NICs) rise by 1.25 percentage points in April.
Taunton has been named as the house price hotspot of 2021, with average values rising 21.8% this year – three times the UK average of 6.2%. Prices in the Somerset county town increased by £56,546 to £315,759, according to Halifax. Newark in the East Midlands had the second-largest growth as values rose 20% in a
The year began with a promise. “America is back,” proclaimed Joe Biden, taking its rightful place at the vanguard of the free world, making up for the sins of his predecessor. The Trump presidency had ended with a desecration. Americans had turned on their holy of holies, the high temple of their democracy on Capitol
India’s government has blocked a charity founded by Mother Teresa from receiving foreign funds. The Missionaries of Charity, which runs schools, clinics, hospices and homes for abandoned children in India, had applied to renew its foreign-funding licence. But on Christmas Day, India’s home ministry said it had rejected the application due to “adverse inputs”. Image:
Russia’s Supreme Court has ordered the country’s most prominent human rights group to be liquidated. The court ruled that the group Memorial must be closed for breaking the law on foreign agents. The group says the lawsuit was politically motivated and has announced it will appeal the ruling before the European Court of Human Rights.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s daughter has joined those paying tribute to the late anti-apartheid hero, recalling the day he saved a young man from being burned alive as her “proudest moment”. Nontombi Naomi Tutu said she was shown video of a funeral on the outskirts of Johannesburg in July 1985, where mourners were beating and kicking
More than 100 British tourists have been denied entry to Austria after COVID rules were not updated before they left for their holiday, it has been reported. Some 110 Britons, most of whom are thought to have been going on a ski trip, flew into Innsbruck on Sunday, believing they only needed to have had
Two Save the Children staff members were among at least 35 people, including children, who were killed in Myanmar on Christmas Eve during an attack blamed on government forces. The charity said both men were new fathers who were “caught up” in the rampage in Kayah state while on their way back to their office
Men’s tennis world number one Novak Djokovic has pulled out of the Serbia team for the ATP Cup in Sydney, casting further doubt on whether he will defend his Australian Open title next month. “Team Serbia will now be led by world number 33 Dusan Lajovic,” organisers of the team event said in a statement. There
2021 was the year that warnings on climate change went into overdrive. It was the year that scientists seemed to run out of patience. And it was the year that the consequences of climate change finally, indisputably, arrived at the doorstep of the western world. By summer, the UN’s special climate panel declared global warming
A vocal pro-democracy website in Hong Kong has been shut down after police raided its office, froze its assets and arrested senior staff. Stand News said in a statement that its website and social media were no longer being updated and would be taken down. It said all employees have been dismissed. The outlet was
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