As the financial hardship of many leaseholders continues, building firms are cashing in on a property market boom. The five biggest developers have made around £10billion in profits since the Grenfell Tower inferno, allowing them to shower more than £4.5billion on shareholders in dividends. The Government’s Help to Buy scheme, which offers loans to first-time … Read more
As the financial hardship of many leaseholders continues, building firms are cashing in on a property market boom. The five biggest developers have made around £10billion in profits since the Grenfell Tower inferno, allowing them to shower more than £4.5billion on shareholders in dividends. The Government’s Help to Buy scheme, which offers loans to first-time … Read more
China exported more than 220 billion face masks in 2020, the equivalent of nearly 40 per person outside of the country. Demand for protective equipment has skyrocketed after the breakout of the coronavirus pandemic which began in China in late 2019. The surge in exports helped the country become the only major economy in the … Read more
Shops sold 2.5 BILLION bottles of water in 2019 as tide of plastic shows no sign of slowing down, figures reveal Ten biggest supermarkets found to have sold 2.5billion plastic bottles of water Big stores sold equivalent of 37 plastic bottles for every person in UK in 2019 Tesco was found to be the biggest … Read more
The Ganges River is one of the biggest rivers in the world, providing water for a whopping half a billion people. But a worrying new study has warned that the river, with the combined flows of the Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers, could be responsible for up to three billion microplastic particles entering the Bay of Bengal … Read more
Shoppers are set to spend over a BILLION in online sales TODAY – but the forecast is 12 per cent lower than last year thanks to pandemic cash problems Shoppers are set to spend £1 billion on Christmas and £1,7 billions on Boxing Day In 2019 shoppers spent £1,2 billions on online shopping on Christmas … Read more
Dance Monkey singer Tones and I celebrates the song hitting TWO BILLION streams – after busking in Melbourne’s Bourke Street Mall to support Covid-hit businesses By Caleb Taylor For Daily Mail Australia Published: 11:58 GMT, 22 December 2020 | Updated: 12:25 GMT, 22 December 2020 Tones and I, real name Toni Watson, has celebrated her … Read more
If left to run for some 14 billion years — roughly the current age of the universe — a new type of atomic clock could keep accurate time to within a tenth of a second. The design by US experts makes use of a bizarre phenomenon called quantum entanglements, in which particles become inextricably linked. … Read more
MacKenzie Scott has announced that she has given away $4.1billion in the past four months to hundreds of organizations as part of a giving pledge she announced last year. The philanthropist, author and ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced her pandemic-era philanthropy in a Medium post on Tuesday. She described the coronavirus pandemic as … Read more
The inventor of the BioNTech jab has added $4 billion to his personal fortune, while his investors have made double that as countries continue to scramble to inoculate populations from coronavirus. Ugur Sahin, CEO and founder of the German biotech firm that has teamed up with Pfizer on its vaccine, has seen share prices soar … Read more