Up and down the nation, parents of children aged around 7 and 11 will be doing battle with the horror that is SPaG tests – or, to the uninitiated, Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar. Large numbers of children are arriving in school so much further back in their development than they ...
Two days on from the Panama Papers leak, the Independent has revealed that HMRC - the government body responsible for collecting taxes - actually pays rent on its head office to a company based in a tax haven! Eleven million documents were leaked from law firm Mossack Fonseca on Monday highlight ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor This really didn't go very well; supremely wealthy Tory candidate for Mayor looked pretty out of touch with the city he wants to run during a TV interview. The BBC's Norman Smith asked Goldsmith which team play at Loftus Road, he had no idea (it's ...
Iceland's Prime Minister Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson is set to resign after revelations of his tax affairs were revealed in the Panama Papers leak. The documents from Mossack Fonseca showed that the disgraced PM hid millions of dollars of investments in his country’s banks in an offshore company under his wife's name. Although it ...
Mark the 14th in your calendar, people, London's irreverent HOO HAs are releasing their second single This Is The New Me, taken from their upcoming self titled debut EP. “I suppose this song is about the trial and error nature of learning what parts of my life are good for me,” ...
By Steve Taggart A dog who who protected thousands of allied troops in Iraq and Afghanistan has been awarded the animal equivalent of the VC, the PDSA Dickin Medal, today (Tuesday 5th April) The twelve-year-old German Shepherd, who lost a leg while on duty, successfully completed over 400 separate missions ...
A Reddit user has posted an inspired analogy of the Panama Papers, likening the leak to a kid's piggy bank. DanGliesack dumbed-down the data leak to shed light on its importance. Read it in full below: When you get a quarter you put it in the piggy bank. The piggy ...
Doncaster has been named the best place to get a properly-served pint in Britain. A report by pub watchdog Cask Marque and monitoring firm Vianet has confirmed that there is a north/south divide when it comes to the quality of beer. Pubs in the North were found to be more likely ...
FIVE QUESTIONS TO ASK IN FINDING THE RIGHT TECHNOLOGY CONSULTANCY Finding the right consultancy for your business isn’t necessarily straightforward. After all, it’s a competitive market out there and many companies have a great deal to shout about. On the other hand, some are inept cowboys who use jargon and ...