A Blackburn tour operator has been jailed for more than two years after fraudulently securing two £50,000 Covid Bounce Back Loans, despite companies only being entitled to one. Raja Imtiaz, 52, of London Road, Blackburn, dishonestly obtained the loans in June and July 2020 on behalf of his company, Al Fayroz Travel & Tourism Limited. Investigations by the Insolvency Service ...
President Donald Trump has suggested that US television networks critical of his administration should have their broadcast licences revoked. The comments came as he praised ABC for suspending late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, whose monologue about the death of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk sparked backlash. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on his return from a state visit to the ...
In today’s fast-paced, hyper-connected world, meeting new people has never been easier. LinkedIn messages arrive in your inbox, networking events seem to appear every week, Zoom calls can introduce you to someone on the other side of the country—or even the world—social media groups create communities based on shared interests, and casual introductions from friends or colleagues happen more often ...
Bristol-based band Massive Attack has requested that their music be removed from Spotify, protesting investments made by its founder, Daniel Ek, in a defence company producing military drones and AI technology. The band have also asked that Universal Music Group withdraw their work from all streaming services in Israel, as part of the broader “No Music for Genocide” campaign. According ...
Will Shu, founder and chief executive of Deliveroo, will step down once the company’s £2.7bn takeover by US rival DoorDash completes next month. Shu, who launched the food delivery platform in 2012, holds a 6.6% stake and is expected to make around £195m from the sale of shares and performance awards triggered by the deal. Shu said his decision to ...
Retail bosses are warning that rising levels of shoplifting and violence against staff are deterring young people from entering the sector, deepening the industry’s recruitment crisis. Jonathan James, owner of James Convenience Retail, which runs around 40 stores under the Select Convenience brand, said fears over safety are making roles less attractive. “It’s just completely going unchecked and that is ...
The UK public sector has swelled to its largest size in over a decade, even as the wider economy struggles with a hiring slowdown. Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show almost 6.2 million people now work in the public sector – the highest since 2011 and up 75,000 in the past year. The total includes a record ...
House Main Street Caucus Chairman Mike Flood, R-Neb., will refer Democratic colleague Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., for a House Ethics Committee investigation, he first told Fox News Digital. It is the latest move in the GOP-led fallout over Omar’s response to the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist who was shot and killed in Utah during a college campus ...
Hunter Biden was involved in discussions about pardons toward the end of his father’s White House term, a source familiar with Jeff Zients’ interview with the House Oversight Committee told Fox News Digital on Thursday. Zients met with House investigators behind closed doors for over six hours — the final former Biden administration official to appear in House Oversight Committee ...
Shortly after announcing a strategy to go after deceptive direct-to-consumer advertising by the pharmaceutical industry, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Department of Health and Human Services released a parody video of a drug advertisement – a pointed way of emphasizing the fact that the United States is largely unique in allowing drug ads. ‘Tired of endless drug ads promising ...