Leading property website reports its busiest month in a DECADE as housing market surges ahead with £37bn summer sales boom Rightmove has had its highest monthly sales since it started keeping records It took in £12billion more this July than it did last year despite the pandemic The average asking price for a home was … Read more
We suddenly got a warning on the VHF radio that a Belgian warship was within range and that we should keep clear. We weren’t keen on tangling with it, so we swiftly checked the map and altered our course. The warning came through as we steadily bobbed across the world’s busiest shipping lane on our … Read more
Call of Duty update drives ‘busiest day EVER for broadband traffic’ on Britain’s vast Openreach network June 30 saw more than 189 petabytes of data used by Openreach customers This smashed the previous record of 184 petabytes set on June 11 Internet use has spiked as people work from home during COVID-19 pandemic Record-breaking usage also … Read more
Google Maps lets you see when public transport is the busiest to help you avoid crowds as Americans head back to work following the coronavirus lockdowns Google is rolling out Transit alerts to Maps to help people avoid crowds The feature displays when public transportation is likely to be more or less busy The firm … Read more
Britain’s largest property website had its busiest ever day last week as millions of Britons stuck inside by the coronavirus lockdown look to swap city living for a move to the coast or countryside. Rightmove recorded more than six million visits on Wednesday, an increase of 18 per cent compared to last year and the … Read more
Britain’s largest property website had its busiest ever day last week as millions of Britons stuck inside by the coronavirus lockdown look to swap city living for a move to the coast or countryside. Rightmove recorded more than six million visits on Wednesday, an increase of 18 per cent compared to last year and the … Read more
British supermarkets raked in £10.8bn in March with sales ‘even higher than Christmas’ from 20% rise in sales as shoppers flooded stores during coronavirus lockdown Supermarket sales were the highest they have ever been in the UK during March 88 per cent of British households went to the shops between March 16 and 19 They … Read more
Britain has turned into a ghost country, where the streets of London are now shadows of their former selves and popular destinations around the country are deserted since Boris Johnson imposed a coronavirus lockdown. The change feels most drastic in London, one of the world’s biggest capital cities. Its nine-million population are nowhere to be … Read more
Revealed: Heathrow had its busiest year ever in 2019 with a record 80.9million passengers using the airport Heathrow says passenger growth was down to availability of larger planes The airport also had its busiest ever December welcoming 6.7million passengers UK services saw the biggest surge last month followed by flights to Middle East By Jennifer … Read more
Last year and last decade busiest ever for air traffic in the UK: Almost 2.6million flights in 2019 and 13% growth since 2009 Nats, the UK’s air traffic control provider, saw an 0.9% increase in flights in 2019 Its busiest day on record was July 5, 2019, when it handled 8,863 flights in the UK Two … Read more