Big banks warn workers in Sydney branches could lose one in ten jobs, as food and petrol prices rise

Big banks warn one in 10 workers will lose their jobs in Sydney’s lockdown as skyrocketing food and petrol prices add to their misery Bank analysts predict up to 300,000 jobs lost in Sydney extended lockdown ANZ’s initial predicted job loss total of 60,000 workers to be stretched further Price of food and beverages also … Read more

Let all banks share abandoned high street branches, says Ceeney

Natalie Ceeney, the country’s leading authority on the damage done to communities when banks and cash machines close, says the Government and regulator have just ‘months left’ to introduce rules that will safeguard nationwide access to cash. Failure to act swiftly, she says, will leave hundreds of communities up and down the country facing an … Read more

Millions of spiders turn green fields white as branches and bushes are cocooned in sticky silk 

Ghostly landscape of cobwebs: Millions of spiders turn green fields white as branches and bushes are cocooned in sticky silk Incredible footage has emerged of thousands of spiders in a backyard The Wolf Spiders were escaping the floodwaters that inundated their habitat  It comes as much of the east coast of NSW was issued with … Read more

Is your bank closing? Santander shutting 111 branches by the end of August

Is your bank closing? Santander shutting 111 branches by the end of August amid claims customers are switching to online By Jane Denton For Thisismoney Published: 09:18 GMT, 25 March 2021 | Updated: 09:18 GMT, 25 March 2021 Santander has announced it will close 111 branches up and down the country by the end of … Read more

Banks pull together to stay open with shared branches

Banks pull together to stay open: Britain’s first shared branches set to open their doors this spring By Victoria Bischoff for the Daily Mail Published: 00:05 GMT, 17 March 2021 | Updated: 00:05 GMT, 17 March 2021 Britain’s first shared bank branches are set to open their doors this spring. Mass branch closures have left … Read more

Space Force posts clip of ‘Call of Duty’ tourney after beating seven branches of US and UK military

Space Force, the U.S. government’s outer-space military branch, took a victory lap this week. On Thursday, members of the Air Force gaming team presented Space Force Chief Security Officer Jay Raymond and Chief Master Sergeant Roger Towberman with the winner’s trophy from the 2020 Call of Duty Endowment (CODE) Bowl. The December 11 tourney was … Read more

Marks & Spencer axes its 29 in-store bank branches and shuts current accounts

Marks & Spencer axes its 29 in-store bank branches and shuts current accounts in move that will affect 3million customers Customers of M&S Bank will have to either move current accounts or close them The move was prompted by ‘customers changing habits’ over the last year No action has to be taken straight away and … Read more

Human ancestors were ‘swinging from tree branches like chimps’ until at least 4.4 million years ago

Ancestors of modern humans who lived 4.4 million years ago were well-suited to swinging in trees and a life in the branches.  Hand bones of Ardi, a member of the ancient human relative species Ardipithecus ramidus, were compared to modern primates and other extinct human ancestors. It reveals they are ape-like in structure and more suited to … Read more

Marks & Spencer SHUTS one of its 20 branches in Paris

Marks & Spencer SHUTS one of its 20 branches in Paris after weeks of Brexit-related food shortages Marks & Spencer store in Chaussée d’Antin branch, Paris, has shut its doors Stores in France have seen delays of fresh food imports from UK due to Brexit  The company has said that the closure is not related … Read more