MasterChef winner Oli Martin has top tips to help make home cooking restaurant standard

Missing restaurant food? Then make it at home – by following the advice of top chef Oli Martin. He won the festive edition of MasterChef: The Professionals recently and his restaurant at Hipping Hall in Kirkby Lonsdale has an impressive four AA rosettes, so he knows his way around the kitchen. Here he offers top … Read more

Standard Chartered deal gives staff an office closer to home

Standard Chartered signs deal to allow staff to work away from central offices in big step towards permanent flexible working at a major financial firm By Neil Craven, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:50 GMT, 9 January 2021 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 9 January 2021 Standard Chartered has signed a global deal that will allow … Read more

Flexible flight tickets can be £1,700 more expensive than standard fares says Which?

Flexible flight tickets can cost up to 17 times more than standard fares – prompting accusations airlines are cashing in on unwitting holidaymakers during the pandemic. A flexible ticket – which allows travellers to move their flight date free of charge – can be £1,700 more expensive than standard. The extortionate prices highlighted in a … Read more

The (not so) Great British Bake Off! Viewers accuse standard to be far WORSE than previous years

Viewers of this year’s Great British Bake Off are claiming this year’s contestants are far worse than previous years. Fans of the Channel 4 bakery show, now in its 11th season, have been voicing their dismay and frustration on Twitter after a string of botched bakes and ‘poor’ show stoppers this year. They claim that … Read more

The (not so) Great British Bake Off! Viewers accuse standard to be far WORSE than previous years

Viewers of this year’s Great British Bake Off are claiming this year’s contestants are far worse than previous years. Fans of the Channel 4 bakery show, now in its 11th season, have been voicing their dismay and frustration on Twitter after a string of botched bakes and ‘poor’ show stoppers this year. They claim that … Read more

Google’s Ultra-wideband API hints at future standard of phone communication

Bluetooth and Wi-Fi have been the trusted, long used technologies for data communication, but there’s another kind on the block that looks to claim the space. Ultra-Wideband (UWB) wireless protocol that was first introduced on the Apple iPhone 11, and then adopted by the Samsung Galaxy Note 20/20 Ultra, is now picking up pace and … Read more

Standard Chartered eyes dividend payout in 2021

Standard Chartered bank signals it could restart dividend payments as soon as February By Helen Cahill, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 BST, 10 October 2020 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 10 October 2020 Standard Chartered bank has signalled it could restart dividend payments as soon as February.  Group treasurer Saleem Razvi told investors the banking … Read more

Schroders overtakes Standard Life Aberdeen

Schroders overtakes Standard Life Aberdeen to become UK’s largest listed asset manager By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:27 BST, 30 July 2020 | Updated: 22:27 BST, 30 July 2020 Schroders has overtaken Standard Life Aberdeen to become the UK’s largest listed asset manager.  The business was looking after almost £526billion of investors’ … Read more

Rhode Island socialite namechecked in Taylor Swift’s new album is Rebekah Harkness Standard Oil heir

Taylor Swift’s, new song titled ‘The Last Great American Dynasty’ is about Rebekah Harkness, the scandal-ridden socialite who once owned the Watch Hill, Rhode Island mansion Swift purchased in 2013 Taking a break from her deeply intimate, autobiographical anthems, Taylor Swift’s eight album,’Folklore’ is a collection of songs written ‘from the perspective of people I’ve … Read more