A veteran BBC DJ has been ‘sacked’ after criticising bosses for axeing his Saturday night show ‘because his elderly audience are the wrong type of listeners’, according to his friends. David Allen was due to host three more shows before his long-running programme was taken off air, but has been fired after hitting out at … Read more
Restaurants in Britain are facing a recruitment crisis as they gear up to fully reopen in three weeks’ time, after more than 350,000 jobs were lost in the hospitality industry over the past year during the pandemic. Jobs lost in hospitality account for 43 per cent of the national total during the coronavirus crisis, with … Read more
A veteran BBC radio presenter has slammed the corporation live on-air after his popular show was axed. David Allen criticised bosses during his show on BBC Radio Solent on Saturday and said he was ‘rather shocked’ when he was told of plans to cancel his long-running programme. The radio presenter, who has hosted the three-hour slot … Read more
A veteran BBC radio presenter has slammed the corporation live on-air after his popular show was axed. David Allen criticised bosses during his show on BBC Radio Solent on Saturday and said he was ‘rather shocked’ when he was told of plans to cancel his long-running programme. The radio presenter, who has hosted the three-hour slot … Read more
Councillor wants to ban ‘Snowdon’ as the name for Wales’s highest peak and replace it with the Welsh version ‘Yr Wyddfa’ Councillor John Pughe Roberts, 58, is set to bring the motion forward today Mr Roberts represents Corris and Mawddwy on Gwynedd county council He also wants to rename Snowdonia National Park the Parc Cenedlaethol … Read more
The Post Office bosses with serious questions to answer: Ex-chiefs gained wealth, honours and directorships as almost 150 postmasters were wrongly prosecuted Part-time priest Paula Vennells, 62, stands accused of covering up the scandal and forcing postmasters into High Court battle After she became chief executive in 2012 there was a ‘pervasive failure’ to investigate … Read more
The Post Office bosses with serious questions to answer: Ex-chiefs gained wealth, honours and directorships as almost 150 postmasters were wrongly prosecuted Part-time priest Paula Vennells, 62, stands accused of covering up the scandal and forcing postmasters into High Court battle After she became chief executive in 2012 there was a ‘pervasive failure’ to investigate … Read more
Housing bosses BAN residents from hanging out washing in their back gardens to protect ‘aesthetics’ Edinburgh residents told by developers they are not allowed to hang washing out Written into the title deeds that the private gardens must not have poles or lines Property management boss said restrictions are often for ‘aesthetic purposes’ By John … Read more
Housing bosses BAN residents in Edinburgh from hanging out washing in their back gardens on private developments to protect ‘aesthetics’ Edinburgh residents told by developers they are not allowed to hang washing out Written into the title deeds that the private gardens must not have poles or lines Property management boss said restrictions are often … Read more
Europe’s vaccine roll-out was condemned for being ‘unacceptably slow’ and blamed for ‘prolonging the pandemic’ by the World Health Organisation earlier this month. ‘Vaccines present our best way out of this pandemic. However, the rollout of these vaccines is unacceptably slow’, WHO director for Europe Hans Kluge said. He added that Europe’s outbreak was ‘more worrying … Read more