Mr Mc Aleer said: “The announcement before Christmas that the contract for Project Stratum has been awarded was warmly greeted, particularly by families in isolated rural areas with little or no broadband. “Since then, I have been inundated with queries from people about eligibility and if their home is in …
Read More »Top British stocks for March 2021
We asked our freelance writers to share the top British stocks they’d buy this March. Here’s what they chose: Kevin Godbold: Smurfit Kappa The FTSE 100‘s Smurfit Kappa (LSE: SKG) provides paper-based packaging solutions and occupies a niche supplying the needs of e-commerce. In February, chief executive Tony Smurfit said the outlook …
Read More »Lost Only Fools and Horses episode revealed
Bang Showbiz 27 February 2021 Sir David Jason A special episode of ‘Only Fools and Horses’ had been planned to mark the 30th anniversary of the comedy show but writer John Sullivan died before completing it A lost ‘Only Fools and Horses’ episode would have seen Del Boy celebrate his …
Read More »Police praised after £1m of drugs seized and 100 suspects arrested
POLICE officer involved in seizing more than £1m of drugs and arresting 100 suspected dealers have been praised for their work. It comes as in just two weeks police carried out dozens of raids across the county in which they seized 82 mobile phones, and almost £53,000 in cash, alongside …
Read More »Four Brexit red tape horror stories
Hard cheese Cheesemaker Simon Spurrell reports losing a fifth of his orders overnight when Britain left the single market on 1st January. His Cheshire Cheese Company had a successful line in selling packs of wax-wrapped cheese, worth £25-£30, direct to European customers, but it has turned out that every order …
Read More »My neighbour signed for my parcel but it was stolen. What can I do?
I bought roughly £200 worth of clothes from online fashion brand, Fashion Nova. Currently I am still going into my workplace and couldn’t be there to collect my order. Yodel, who were the courier company, asked my neighbours to sign for it, which they did. A Fashion Nova customers order …
Read More »Amazon's new rotating, follow-you camera is useful — and invasive
Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post, but I review all tech with the same critical eye. AD. Echo devices are mostly … Source link
Read More »UK urged to change stock market rules to boost fintech sector post-Brexit | Financial sector
The government has been urged to set up a £1bn startup investment fund, introduce special fast-track visas to draw global talent and change the UK’s stock market listing rules to protect and grow Britain’s financial technology sector post-Brexit. The recommendations are made in a report commissioned by the chancellor, Rishi …
Read More »Man Sends 1st And 2nd Class Post At Same Time To See Which Arrives First
A TikToker whose been getting to the bottom of the difference between Royal Mail first and second stamps class has claimed it’s in fact all a scam after conducting a little experiment. Watch him explain here: TikTok user Stage Door Johnny had previously been querying what the actual difference was …
Read More »Drugs worth £1 million and 100 arrests — police force crackdown on county lines
ONE hundred arrests and a million pounds worth of drugs — police have focused on disruption and dismantling county lines drug networks in the last two weeks. Intensified activity across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight has seen officers tackle drug related harm by arresting 100 suspected drug dealers, seizing …
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