Britain faces ‘a return to austerity’ with £4billion cut, says the Institute for Fiscal Studies

Britain faces another tax hike due to a £4billion black hole in Rishi Sunak’s Budget spending plans, an influential think tank warned today. The Institute for Fiscal Studies said the shortfall for the 2022−23 financial year went ‘entirely unmentioned’ in the Chancellor’s speech to the Commons on March 3. If the spending plan is followed … Read more

Britain faces ‘a return to austerity’ with £4billion cut, says the Institute for Fiscal Studies

Britain faces another tax hike due to a £4billion black hole in Rishi Sunak’s Budget spending plans, an influential think tank warned today. The Institute for Fiscal Studies said the shortfall for the 2022−23 financial year went ‘entirely unmentioned’ in the Chancellor’s speech to the Commons on March 3. If the spending plan is followed … Read more

Heathrow passenger numbers slump while Rolls-Royce announces £4billion loss

Heathrow passenger numbers slump to lowest level since 1966 while Rolls-Royce announces £4billion loss after aviation industry suffers ‘severe’ Covid hit Heathrow’s passenger numbers have fallen to the lowest level since the 1960s Engine-maker Rolls-Royce has plummeted to a mammoth £4 billion annual loss Just 461,000 people travelled through Heathrow Airport in February Recent queue … Read more

Heathrow passenger numbers slump while Rolls-Royce announces £4billion loss

Heathrow passenger numbers slump to lowest level since 1966 while Rolls-Royce announces £4billion loss after aviation industry suffers ‘severe’ Covid hit Heathrow’s passenger numbers have fallen to the lowest level since the 1960s Engine-maker Rolls-Royce has plummeted to a mammoth £4 billion annual loss Just 461,000 people travelled through Heathrow Airport in February Recent queue … Read more

Up to 50 hotels across Britain benefit from £4billion ten-year contract to house asylum seekers 

Casually tapping on their smartphones and smoking in the sunshine, the young men gathered outside the once grand, but now slightly downmarket, hotel appeared carefree and relaxed.  Their untroubled, if somewhat bored, demeanour is perhaps no surprise.  Having successfully reached the UK as asylum seekers, they are now guests of the British taxpayer with free … Read more

For 50 years, the Boeing 747 has carried 4billion passengers and several Space Shuttles

The wings of a Boeing 747 span a greater distance than the Wright Brothers’ first flight in 1903. It’s such a colossus that the American factory in Everett, Washington, where the planes have been manufactured since 1969, is the largest building by volume in the world at 13 million cubic metres. Fittingly, clouds have been … Read more