Trump’s steel tariffs show dangers UK faces post-Brexit
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 US, together with a threat to ignore the protections on foodstuffs of specific geographical origin - posing a threat to Scotland’s whisky industry and Cornish pasty production. GMB says the...
NHS Cornwall’s plans to ‘privatise’ are shelved after public outcry
Public pressure appears to have played a part in NHS Cornwall’s decision not to privatise a part of it’s service, reports Cornwall Live The county was planning to launch the “Accountable Care System” for health services. It was claimed that this would push the NHS towards privatisation. Protests took place outside the County Hall during inquiry sessions over the plans, and eventually it has been shelved. Critics had said that the ACS would create an "Americanised" health system. The Council...
Inside the Lib Dems’ old HQ that a wealthy American has just paid £1 million to RENT as a family home
The tycoon wants is part of a growing number of 'try-before-they-buy' tenants living in London
Fidelity Closed-End Funds Review
QuotedData is publishing a new Fidelity Closed-End Funds review. This covers funds in the Asia-Pacific ex-japan, Japanese Smaller Companies and UK All Companies sectors. Welcome to the fifth edition of QuotedData’s Fidelity Closed-End Funds Review – a regular publication looking at Fidelity and recent developments in three of its investment trusts – Fidelity Asian Values, Fidelity Japanese Values and Fidelity Special Values. In this issue: Fidelity Asian Values posted decent positive returns during 2017 but has continued to lag its peer group and...
Sunday Times accused of carrying out the longest-running, most organised and grossly invasive spying operation in Fleet Street’s history
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 phone numbers and penetrate private financial material, such as banking and mortgage data. Ford admits that several email accounts were successfully hacked, each of which were done "to order" on the...
John Laing Environmental Assets Group – Anaerobic diversification
John Laing Environmental Assets Group - Anaerobic diversification Unlike other listed renewable energy funds, John Laing Environmental Assets Group (JLEN) has exposure to waste and wastewater projects. A recent move into anaerobic digestion (see page 3) further differentiates it from its peer group and increases the diversification of its portfolio. The adviser likes this area as it is less exposed to the vagaries of power prices than other areas of the renewables market (a plus, given JLEN’s recent reduction in...
Newspaper apologises for ‘Faces of Evil’ front page which “ostracised large section” of Bristol’s African & Afro-Caribbean community
A newspaper in a city with prominent links to slavery has issued an apology after running a controversial front page more than two decades ago. The Bristol Post's 1996 splash - headlined 'Faces of Evil' - includes 16 mugshots of black men jailed for dealing crack cocaine in the city. Editor Mike Norton said the report "ostracised a large section" of Bristol's African and Afro-Caribbean community "with its black faces ranged in rows like slaves held in cages". The Bristol...
Average deposit today is over £4k higher than the price of a house in 1960s
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. Today, first-time buyers will be in their thirties before they get onto the property ladder and pay a deposit of £20,622. In comparison, in 1960, the average first-time buyer was...
Good Samaritan leaps into action to save homeless person’s belongings from burning tent
This is the moment a Good Samaritan leaped into action to save a homeless person's TENT where he lives - after it was set on FIRE. The brave stranger can be seen calmly carrying the occupant's sleeping bag away from the burning tent, which was fortunately unoccupied at the time. The tent is one of several to have appeared recently in inner-city Riverside Park in Easton, Bristol, beside the M32 motorway. And the man, who asked to be known only...