Outback schoolboy Dylan Storer has been praised on social media after slamming ‘narrow-minded’ politicians while weighing in on Australia’s bushfire crisis. The 16-year-old reappeared on ABC’s Q&A Monday night, where he was asked how he would tackle the country’s environmental emergencies if he were prime minister. The teen, who was …
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The Duke of York’s sit-down chat with the BBC’s still dominates the papers. The “fallout continues” after Andrew’s interview, according to The Daily Telegraph, which along with The Times cites businesses and charities as threatening to sever ties with the royal. The Daily Mirror says Andrew’s accuser, Virginia Giuffre, has been interviewed by …
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First Eastern Counties has apologised to Ian Barrington who claimed he was the subject of a racist comment by a First Bus driver when travelling from the village into central Peterborough a fortnight ago. The Royal Mail worker published a video where the driver can be heard saying: “I don’t …
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2003 Plans for an arena for Bristol were first proposed in 2003 with the aim of having it completed by 2008. It was agreed that the arena should be built on brownfield site near Bristol Temple Meads station, on the former Bristol Bath Road depot land. The arena was originally …
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Studies out this week suggest that retail will grow slowly over peak trading 2019, while also offering insights as to where, when and how shoppers like to buy Slow growth forecast Total retail sales are set to grow by just 1% in the golden quarter of 2019, but online …
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Pictures from a critical crash scene show a police cordon as well as debris on the road. A woman has been left fighting for her life following a crash along Crow Lane in Romford. Emergency services rushed to the incident at around 6.15am today, (Tuesday, November 19), and closed the …
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WATERLOO, Ontario and LONDON, Nov. 19, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) and electric vehicle company Arrival Ltd. announced today that Arrival’s intelligent, autonomous-ready commercial vehicles will be powered by BlackBerry QNX technology. As part of the agreement, BlackBerry will license its BlackBerry QNX technology to Arrival, including its …
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Ahead of the general election, politicians from different parties are offering radically different policies, which means that there is a real choice to make on 12 December, says Ian Swanson. IT may be cold outside, but the election campaign is hotting up with the first head-to-head TV debate tonight and …
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Metro Bank is among the organisations who have published their parental leave policies. Image: Shutterstock Only 15 of the organisations in the FTSE 250 are telling job candidates how much paid leave they could expect if they have a baby, according to new analysis. Parents’ network Mumsnet, which looked at …
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The latest Janus Henderson Global Dividend Index report, a long-term study of global dividend trends, shows underlying growth in payouts from publicly listed companies of 5.3% for the third quarter, coming in at $355 billion (£273 billion). Janus Henderson says growth is in line with the long-term trend identified by …
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