Amazon execs are talking to JP Morgan Chase about creating a bank service aimed at young consumers, according industry insiders. The e-commerce firm is pressing ahead with plans to open a banking service with talks underway with a number of financial institutions, including financial services giant JP Morgan Chase. Last year...
Donald Tusk has today confirmed that a free trade agreement (FTA) on goods with no tariffs is the only possible route for the UK's exit from the European Union. The President of the European Council said the EU does not want to build a wall with Britain, but Brexit means "we...
A campaign to restore a full tube service at Kensington Olympia station has reached 10,000 signatures. The campaign, called ‘Connect Kensington Olympia’, calls on Transport for London to reinstate a full London Underground timetable following reductions in service numbers in 2011. The campaign claims that an increase in tube services will improve...
Protectionist trade tariffs signed by Donald Trump show the dangers faced by the UK post Brexit, union GMB has warned. This week the US President officially sanctioned a 25 per cent tariff on steel imports, 10 per cent on aluminium, and is now threatening a tax on cars entering the...
The Sunday Times has been accused of employing a former actor to carry out the longest-running, most organised and grossly invasive spying operation in Fleet Street’s history, a Byline investigation has revealed. John Ford was paid up to £40,000 per year by Rupert Murdoch's flagship Sunday broadsheet to obtain phone bills, recover ex-directory...
The average first-time buyer is now seven years older than in 1960 and needs to save around £20,000 to be able to buy a home, a study has found. Researchers who polled 2,000 adults found a huge difference in the profile of someone buying their first home through the generations....
More than 137,700 girls have missed school in the last year because they couldn’t afford sanitary products, a shocking new report into period poverty in Britain has revealed. The findings emerged in a report of 500 girls aged 10 to 18, which shows seven per cent have been forced to...
Two Sun Online journalists have sent Twitter into hysterics after they tried to out two students for correctly surmising the moral of Frankenstein. Reporters from the beleaguered red top were scraping the barrel yesterday as they took aim at "generation snowflake" for sympathising with Mary Shelley's monster. The headline sensationally...
Boris Johnson has raised doubts over whether England will participate in the 2018 World Cup after a former Russian spy was exposed to an unknown substance in Salisbury. The Foreign Secretary said we need to have a "serious conversation about our engagement with Russia", which could include whether the UK sends...