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By ALEX BRUMMER Updated: 04:56 EST, 27 December 2024 Keir Starmer’s government doesn’t get business. Forget the pre-election hoopla of cosying up to enterprise and the £63billion of pledges made at the October 2024 investment summit. Starmer and the Chancellor Rachel Reeves are clueless on how to fulfil the growth mission. Labour’s agenda is to put working people first and end industrial strife. But it is at the expense of corporate Britain. The dissonance of the CBI, which has warned that Britain is facing a ‘recession made in Downing Street’, needs to be taken seriously. The lack of understanding goes beyond the deeply regressive £25billion…
Smiling sweetly for the camera next to her idol Taylor Swift, this is the heartbreaking final photo of Alice da Silva Aguiar before she was stabbed to death during the Southport rampage. The nine-year-old was tragically killed at a Swift-themed dance class just moments after the image was taken at the entrance to the event on Hart Street on July 29. She was killed alongside Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven. Ten others were seriously injured. The little girl’s parents Sergio and Alexandra were joined by hundreds of family members and friends as they packed out St Patrick’s Catholic Church in Southport for her funeral today.The…
It’s a hotel that would almost certainly float your boat.For starters, it’s a boat. Then there’s the fact that it has been named the UK’s best luxury hotel in the 2024 Tripadvisor Travellers’ Choice Awards. Forget any ideas about sailing the Seven Seas, though, because this 62-year-old vessel isn’t going anywhere – it’s permanently berthed on the Port of Leith’s vibrant waterfront, close to the similarly static Royal Yacht Britannia. The trust that owns Queen Elizabeth’s retired ship bought MV Fingal in 2014, converting it over several years into a five-star hotel.In its former life, Fingal was a Clyde-built tender that,…
Doctors are expressing alarm about a mutated form of bird flu that infected a farm worker in Texas. The patient contracted the virus, his eyes turning red and itchy, from contact with an infected dairy cow or chicken in Texas. Government-backed researchers took a sample of the virus, infected mice and ferrets with it and found it had evolved to become far deadlier than the wild strain currently spreading on US farms.It also spread between animals through the air, a key milestone that would theoretically allow it to be more contagious in humans. But crucially, the tests showed that some antiviral drugs could…
For an asset that has spent most of its short, chequered life lurking in the shadows of the financial system it was perhaps fitting that bitcoin broke through the $100,000 barrier for the first time in the dead of night.The flagship cryptocurrency which has been favoured by drug dealers and money launderers surged past the milestone just after 2.45am on December 5, and this week hit a new high of $108,379.Its huge advance has made some investors willing to turn a blind eye to the risks, and millions have been piling in.But it is not just crypto itself that has…
By ESTHER MARSHALL Published: 10:29 EST, 2 December 2024 | Updated: 10:42 EST, 2 December 2024 Nearly half of England’s Northerners have never visited the USA, despite over a third wanting to go, according to a new survey.The poll, by Irish airline Aer Lingus, found that 35 per cent of people from the North of England would like to visit the USA. New York City is the top destination for Northerners wanting to head stateside, with 53 per cent saying it’s the U.S place they’d most like to visit. In second place is LA (30 per cent), followed by Las Vegas and Orlando, Florida (joint third,…
On Sunday the Democratic Party flew a banner over the Philadelphia Eagles football game reading: ‘Go Birds! Sack Project 2025! Vote Kamala.’Donald Trump may have tried to distance himself from Project 2025, a hardline conservative manifesto setting out a program for government written by his allies, but our new poll reveals just how damaging it could be for him in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania.When independent voters were asked to describe in a word their main hesitation in voting for the former president, their number-one answer was: 2025.The results are particularly striking when they are set out in a…
So-called ‘good’ cholesterol may not be so beneficial after all and could even leave you blind, concerning research has suggested. High-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL), has long been considered good because of the swathe of evidence showing it protects the heart. It removes cholesterol from the arteries and carries it to the liver to be broken down and removed from the body — reducing the risk of heart attacks and strokes.But some research has since started to challenge the view that more is better.Now scientists, who tracked almost 7,000 Brits, found higher levels of HDL actually raised the risk of the incurable eye…
Heidi Klum looked unrecognizable as she transformed into E.T. for her Halloween couple’s costume with husband Tom Kaulitz.On October 31, the supermodel, 51, made her grand arrival at her famous, annual Halloween soirée alongside the musician, 35, dressed as the alien from the 1982 cult classic movie, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.The pair transformed into E.T. before and after touching down on Earth and being dressed up by the young children, Elliot and Gertie. She proved the Queen of Halloween crown is still hers as she walked the red carpet at her bash, which was held at the Hard Rock Hotel in New York…
NASA has officially launched plans to send Boeing’s Starliner back into space – despite the pod creating an international scandal that stranded astronauts for months.Following the successful return of astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore Tuesday, the space agency said its committed to using the beleaguered Starliner capsule.NASA stressed the importance of having two launch systems. SpaceX is the other.Starliner malfunctioned before and during the mission that took Williams and Wilmore to the International Space Station (ISS) in June, forcing NASA to deem it too risky for the return flight. The pair returned inside a SpaceX Dragon capsule.It was Boeing’s first Starliner flight…