Professional services tax haul set to cost UK Government £14bn

Professional services tax haul set to cost UK Government £14bn as lawyers and consultants see slump in work By Helen Cahill For The Mail On Sunday Published: 22:31 BST, 9 May 2020 | Updated: 10:20 BST, 10 May 2020 A decline in the professional services sector will produce one of the biggest hits to the … Read more

Tank of petrol at motorway services is £20 MORE than supermarkets

Motorists who fill up their cars with petrol at motorway services are currently being charged £20 more than if they topped their tank at a supermarket fuel station, it has been revealed. With Morrisons, Asda and Tesco all lowering the price of unleaded below £1-a-litre this week, the gulf between fuel prices at motorway services … Read more

UK in worst recession in living memory, services sector report shows

UK in worst recession in living memory: 591,000 firms at risk of going bust as car sales crash to lowest since 1946 By James Salmon for the Daily Mail Published: 22:55 BST, 5 May 2020 | Updated: 23:41 BST, 5 May 2020 Households have been told to brace themselves for the worst recession in living … Read more

Google and Apple show samples of COVID exposure apps and forbid use of apps’ location services

Google and Apple show samples of how eventual coronavirus exposure apps might look and forbid use of GPS-enabled location services The companies released samples of what COVID exposure apps may look like Samples are meant to be starting points for developers  The companies are also forbidding the use of location tracking by apps  Here’s how … Read more

Rail union bosses ‘won’t accept’ increasing train services as lockdown eases

Rail union bosses revolt over plans to restore rail services to 85% in two weeks’ time and warn ‘they won’t accept’ increases ‘if they puts lives at risk’ Aslef, RMT and TSSA unions written to Prime Minister voicing ‘severe concerns’ They have warned that increasing services would send out a ‘mixed message’  Argue ‘mixed messages could … Read more

Rail union bosses ‘won’t accept’ increasing train services as lockdown eases

Rail union bosses revolt over plans to restore rail services to 85% in two weeks’ time and warn ‘they won’t accept’ increases ‘if they puts lives at risk’ Aslef, RMT and TSSA unions written to Prime Minister voicing ‘severe concerns’ They have warned that increasing services would send out a ‘mixed message’  Argue ‘mixed messages could … Read more

Netflix expected to reveal spike in demand for its services

With people stuck at home due to coronavirus, Netflix set to reveal spike in demand for its services By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:55 BST, 19 April 2020 | Updated: 21:55 BST, 19 April 2020 Netflix is expected to have gained millions of subscribers when it reveals its first quarter results tomorrow.  … Read more

Russia’s Orthodox Christians defy lockdown to go to Easter services

Orthodox Christians have defied coronavirus lockdown measures to gather outside Easter services as Russia’s infection rate today soared by 6,060 to 42,853. Worshippers gathered near to churches across Russia in a celebration of the festival on Sunday, as priests led processions around churchyards to mark the occasion.    Patriarch Kirill, who leads 150 million believers, held a … Read more

Food subscription box services are growing rapidly in Britain

In the last few weeks, I’ve been on a cooking expedition. I am the chef of the house anyway, batch making meals for my young daughter and baking healthy(ish) snacks – but this has been a different style of cooking. I have been raiding the freezer and cupboards to knock up an array of tasty … Read more

The £683bn tech rally: Digital services boom as millions work from home during coronavirus crisis

The £683bn tech rally: Digital services boom as millions work from home during coronavirus crisis By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 17 April 2020 | Updated: 22:16 BST, 17 April 2020 America’s technology titans have added hundreds of billions of pounds to their value in the past month as the coronavirus … Read more