The FTSE 100 is up 0.2 per cent in afternoon trading. Among the companies with reports and trading updates today are Rolls-Royce, Lloyds Banking Group, WPP and Hargreaves Lansdown. Read the Thursday 22 February Business Live blog below.
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Buying back-to-school essentials last week, the shops were crowded like a train during rush-hour.
A long list in hand, our No 1 priority, according to my 12-year-old, was to buy an iPhone screen protector.
We found one, and as the assistant laboriously polished the glass of my son’s phone, from the corner of my left eye I spotted the shop I didn’t know I needed.
‘I’m just going in there,’ I gestured toward Ann Summers as though I were off
Manchester United star Marcus Rashford has opened up on his working relationship with the club’s forwards coach Benni McCarthy, who has been credited with playing a key role in the England forward’s resurgence over the past year at Old Trafford. McCarthy joined the club as part of Erik ten Hag’s backroom team, working closely with the group of forwards at United’s disposal.
McCarthy spent five years in the Premier League as a striker for Blackburn and West Ham, as the
The U.K’s Royal Mail has launched a daily drone delivery service for a group of Scottish islands in the far north of the country, making it the first regular postal service in the country to be powered by a remotely controlled copter.
The new mail delivery operation serves Orkney, a community of around 22,000 people living on 20 of its 70 small islands about 10 miles north of the mainland.
Following lengthy tests of the drone delivery service with Skysports
A full year after filming ended on the summer’s biggest blockbuster, Barbie’s cast and crew are finally able to share what they got up to for months on the Warner Bros lot.
One background actress, Jodi Alexander, who appeared as a few different Barbies in the film, gave fans an in-depth look at her time on-set with Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling and Greta Gerwig in a series of TikTok clips and photo compilations.
The actress titled one set of photos
Geri Horner, famous popstar and other half of Formula One’s Christian Horner, has opened up about her nearly all-white wardrobe.
The 50-year-old Spice Girls star appears to have abandoned her once multi-coloured outfits in favour of light-coloured clothing.
Speaking about her new fondness for wearing white in an interview, the star admitted she felt like her more toned-down sense of style felt like a “school uniform” for grown-ups.
Her pale wardrobe has sparked confusion amongst her fans in the past,
A film premiering next month will shine a light on a secret U.S. group which UFO researchers claim is helping to cover up the discovery of alien spacecraft.
The film, God versus Aliens, has interviews with two experts about the ‘Collins Elite’, a supposed secretive group within the U.S. military which has helped to cover up alien abductions and crashed spacecraft since the 1950s.
Speaking to DailyMail.com, British director of the film Mark Christopher Lee said: ‘A lot of people
KYIV — Ukraine has ended its ban on its athletes competing against Russians and Belarusians in international competitions — so long as Moscow’s and Minsk’s athletes are participating under a neutral banner.
However, the ban is still in force stopping Ukrainians from competing against Russians and Belarusians who perform under their national flags, use the national symbols in public during sports events, or make any public statements or actions backing the Russian or Belarusian regimes. In those cases, Ukrainian athletes
A first-time mother was left gobsmacked when her newborn baby started lifting her head and attempting to crawl just three days after being born.
Samantha Mitchell, from White Oak, Pennsylvania, and her own mother captured the incredible moment on camera while little Nyilah Daise Tzabari was lying on her stomach in the hospital cot.
The little one can be seen wriggling around, making noises and lifting her head for a few seconds while looking around.
In a video shared to
Old Stamp House Chef Patron Ryan Blackburn
The world’s best restaurant, according to Tripadvisor, isn’t on a glitzy street in London, Rome, Paris or Manhattan, but in the quaint, often rain-soaked town of Ambleside in the north of England’s Lake District, housed in the building poet William Wordsworth used as an office when he was a tax collector, distributing revenue stamps.
In a nod to its origins, it’s called the Old Stamp House, and was the overall global winner of
