Dozens of NHS workers are being made redundant after a taxpayer-funded service was axed a year early. The Healthy Lifestyle service – which targets obesity, drinking and smoking – had been due to continue until 2018. But Staffordshire County Council has pulled the plug on the contract from next month. Now 39 workers are to lose their jobs as the ... Read More »
Donald Trump scolded military jet manufacturer Lockheed Martin on for “out of control” costs on Monday, sending the defence contractor’s stock plummeting. “Billions of dollars can and will be saved on military (and other) purchases after January 20th,” when he will officially take office, the president-elect wrote on Twitter. The subsequent share price drop cut $4bn from the company’s value ... Read More »
Britain’s Supreme Court will decide as quickly as possible whether Prime Minister Theresa May can trigger Britain’s exit from the European Union by the end of March without parliament’s assent, its president said on Thursday. Last month, the High Court decided that May could not invoke Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, the EU’s exit clause, using executive powers known ... Read More »
Britain’s oldest manufacturing business, a London bell foundry that made Big Ben, could be sold after its owner decided to vacate its historic East End premises. The Whitechapel Bell Foundry began life in 1570 during the reign of Elizabeth I. It moved to its site on Whitechapel Road in 1739 and has traded from the building since. The Guinness Book ... Read More »
Bolivian authorities on Thursday suspended the license of a tiny charter airline whose plane crashed in Colombia this week after apparently running out of fuel, killing 71 people and wiping out a Brazilian soccer team on its way to a regional cup final. Monday night’s disaster sent shock waves across the global soccer community and plunged Latin America’s largest nation, ... Read More »
Steven Gerrard says he is yet to make up his mind whether to retire or continue playing, and opened the door for a Premier League return. The former Liverpool and England captain’s contract with LA Galaxy expires in November and there have been no formal talks over an extension to life in California. Speaking to Liverpool-based radio station Radio City Talk, Gerrard, ... Read More »
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