The choice of former Standard Life Aberdeen chief executive Keith Skeoch as interim chairman of audit and governance watchdog the Financial Reporting Council could not be more timely. A series of missteps by big audit firms, with Ernst & Young (EY) caught in the headlights, has refocused attention on the potential for audit failure. In … Read more
Diversity’s polarising Britain’s Got Talent performance is still receiving complaints almost two weeks after originally airing, with TV regulator Ofcom counting 24,041 to date. The routine, which narrated the senseless death of black man George Floyd beneath the knee of a white police officer, divided fans after it aired during the live show on Saturday … Read more
A couple’s ‘dream’ £1.5million country home on a historic estate has been turned into a building site by a scaffolding company illegally expanding their operation next door. Mike Tattum and Jane Bell’s say their rural idyll at Hadham Park House in the Hertfordshire countryside has been blighted by 20ft tall black fencing, portacabins, floodlights and … Read more
Boris Johnson’s Britain and the Donald Trump administration in the US have handled the Covid-19 pandemic the worst, according to a study. Just 46 per cent of Britons and 47 per cent of Americans think their government has coped well with the coronavirus. In comparison, 95 per cent of people in Denmark believe their country’s politicians … Read more
Getting office workers back to their desks should be as big a priority as getting children back to the classroom, senior Tories warned last night. Boris Johnson yesterday led a Government push to ensure all school children return to class next week, saying it was ‘vitally important’ that months of patchy home learning finally came to … Read more
Return to sender: Moment tables are turned on fly-tipper who dumped 400 tyres in countryside… when landowner uses tipper truck to pile them on his front lawn Gary Rothwell had more than 400 tyres left on his land in Haydock, Liverpool He posted a video on August 13 dumping tyres at the alleged fly tipper’s … Read more
Lockdown savers pile £8bn into Hargreaves Lansdown: Broker’s billionaire founders to receive £82m in dividends By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 7 August 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 7 August 2020 Hargreaves Lansdown was boosted by an influx of customers during lockdown, as thousands of Britons sat down to order their … Read more
‘This is 2020 in a photo’: Mum-of-four’s unbelievably large lockdown laundry pile is branded the most relatable snap on social media this year Aussie mum Kodie Quinlivan couldn’t face folding laundry during lockdown She piled freshly washed clothes in an enormous mound in the living room The mother-of-four from Perth, WA, lay on top of … Read more
‘This is 2020 in a photo’: Mum-of-four’s unbelievably large lockdown laundry pile is branded the most relatable snap on social media this year Aussie mum Kodie Quinlivan couldn’t face folding laundry during lockdown She piled freshly washed clothes in an enormous mound in the living room The mother-of-four from Perth, WA, lay on top of … Read more
Key points in the OBR’s grim economic assessment of the UK GDP will fall by at least 10 per cent this year, the worst recession in 300 years, with national debt bigger than the whole economy in all but the most optimistic scenario. Output might not return to last year’s level until the end of … Read more