Electric scooters have been hailed as part of our green transport future – but they’re not legal to ride on UK roads. What is all the fuss about? Consumer Trends takes ones for a spin.
Ford’s nimble new Puma is the cat’s whiskers – and appears to have as many feline lives. The Puma name derives from an original and much-loved Ford super-mini from 1997-2001.
Britain’s public finances are in a mess. The debt is now greater than the size of the economy after the government borrowed a record amount in May to prevent the country from collapse.
Motorists pay 57.95p in tax per litre of petrol and diesel they buy. But just £4.1bn was collected in fuel duty between March and May, compared with £6.6bn during the same period a year ago.
Manager Nick Greenwood tries to pounce on firms on the brink of a turnaround. This could include trusts that are going through a reorganisation or are in an out-of-favour area.
Stephen Jones, the former boss of UK Finance, who is already embroiled in a sexism row has been dragged deeper into Amanda Staveley’s £1.6bn High Court battle with Barclays.
The supermarket giant’s bosses now face the embarrassing prospect of a slapdown from shareholders after handing outgoing chief exec Dave Lewis a bumper £6.4m pay package.
The former Carphone Warehouse boss bought 1.5m shares in four transactions between June 11 and 16, according to stock market filings released this week.
Genus breeds pigs and cattle with the best genes for providing high-quality meat and milk, selling them to farmers in the form of breeding animals, semen or embryos.
Shoptalk, a huge retail symposium held in Las Vegas, had been postponed from March to September – but has now been scrapped in 2020 and will instead run in March 2021.
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