“Wear more clothes,” the Education Authority advises the staff and pupils of north of Ireland’s schools. Gas is dearer, electricity is dearer, and so the child must come to class more thickly wrapped. The authority has discovered a remarkably simple…
Energy UK, the suppliers’ trade body, demands immediate government action to help households pay their bills. Prices have just risen by 4 percent; forecasts point to another rise of 16 percent in January. Delay, the suppliers warn, will produce a…
BT has temporarily cut off the broadband of some customers to get them to act on switching their landlines to digital. Here is the company’s explanation: “A small minority of customers are yet to move and haven’t responded to repeated…
Barclays has reviewed its cash-machine network and announced plans to remove 132 machines across the UK. Among them is the machine at its former premises in Hawes, in the Yorkshire Dales. Without a replacement, Hawes would lose its last free…
The Royal College of Nursing has ended its commercial partnership with Teva UK after pressure from Nurses for Palestine and UK Healthcare Petitions to Royal Colleges. Teva will no longer sponsor the forthcoming nursing event on migraine and headache services….
Homes being built today could become uninsurable because of flooding, Aviva chief executive Amanda Blanc has warned. Based on current building patterns, 115,000 new homes will be built in flood zones over the next decade. The warning exposes a conflict…
Two hundred and sixty children died in work-related incidents in the United States between 2013 and 2023. For more than half of them, the official records lack detailed information about the industry in which they worked or the cause of…
Hospitals in England are struggling to obtain aspirin, co-codamol and ramipril: medicines used to relieve pain, reduce the risk of blood clots and treat high blood pressure. These aren’t obscure treatments. They’re among the drugs a health service needs to…
Three quarters of GPs say they don’t have enough time to offer preventative healthcare, according to a Royal College of GPs survey of 2,316 doctors across the UK. With surgeries facing heavy demand and appointments often limited to ten minutes,…
London’s investment bankers, lawyers and accountants have collected more than £1.2bn in fees from takeover deals this year. The value of mergers and acquisitions involving UK-listed companies has jumped 175 percent to $132.9bn (£100bn), as private equity firms and overseas…
