Sales at Zara owner Inditex top pre-pandemic levels

Sales at Zara owner Inditex top pre-pandemic levels as customers return stores and online sales soar By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 BST, 9 June 2021 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 9 June 2021 The owner of Zara said sales have recovered in the last five weeks and were ahead of pre-pandemic levels. … Read more

Spark of hope at last for savers as rates rise from rock-bottom levels

Spark of hope at last for savers as rates have rise from the rock-bottom levels of earlier this year By Sylvia Morris For The Daily Mail Published: 22:00 BST, 18 May 2021 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 18 May 2021 Atom Bank now pays 0.85 per cent on its one-year fixed-rate bond Savings rates have risen … Read more

Apple may add sensors to monitor blood sugar and alcohol levels in its upcoming Apple Watch

Your Apple Watch may tell you when you’ve had too much to drink or if your blood sugar is too high. In recent SCC filings, UK medical tech company Rockley Photonics listed Apple as its ‘largest customer,’ which could add its non-invasive sensors to the devices to measure a number of markers in the blood. … Read more

ONS: Higher levels of loneliness in urban areas during Covid crisis

People in cities and towns are more likely to have felt lonely during the Covid-19 crisis than their countryside counterparts, official statistics reveal Office for National Statistics data show rising levels of loneliness during Covid Levels of loneliness tended to be greater in urban areas than the countryside Areas with higher rates of unemployment tended … Read more

Third of the planet’s farmland has pesticides levels 1,000 times higher than what’s considered safe

Nearly a third of the farmland around the world is at high risk of pesticide pollution, according to a new report. Scientists in Australia examined how nearly 100 agricultural chemicals were used across 168 countries, to determine which pesticides surpassed recommended levels. Pointing to ‘widespread global pesticide pollution risk,’ the research found 64 percent of … Read more

Shipwreck from the 1880s is identified as the Contest thanks to shifting Lake Michigan water levels

Shipwreck from the 1880s that emerges every few years due to Lake Michigan tidal waters is finally identified as the long-lost Contest A shipwreck has appeared four times along the shore of Lake Michigan – 1947, 1974, 2018 and 2021 It was previously speculated to be remains of the 170-foot-long Woodruff, but experts determined otherwise  … Read more

Hargreaves Lansdown enjoys ‘elevated’ trading levels

Hargreaves Lansdown enjoys ‘elevated’ trading levels as British investors target US stocks after the Gamestop frenzy Interest from existing customers looking to US stocks is high, Hargreaves said  Investing platforms have seen a surge in customers over the past year  By Jane Denton For Thisismoney Published: 12:40 GMT, 17 March 2021 | Updated: 12:40 GMT, … Read more

Women reported higher levels of anxiety than men during Covid crisis

Women reported higher levels of anxiety, depression and loneliness than men during the coronavirus crisis as more than a quarter of university students say they feel lonely ‘often’ or ‘always’ Office for National Statistics released analysis of Covid crisis on men and women Analysis showed women reported higher levels of anxiety, loneliness than men Meanwhile, … Read more

Covid cases in England hit their lowest levels since SEPTEMBER

Covid cases in England hit their lowest levels since SEPTEMBER: Test and Trace figures reveal 84,000 infections were recorded last week – down by 44% in a fortnight Just 84,310 people tested positive for the coronavirus across the country over the week ending February 17 This is down 44 per cent in a fortnight and … Read more

Fish poop generates 1.65 BILLION tons of carbon in the ocean that helps regulate water levels

Fish poop, breath and other excretions produce over a billion tons of carbon every year, according to a new study. That’s more than 15 percent of all the carbon in the ocean, the planet’s largest active carbon ‘sink,’ or absorber of carbon dioxide. That makes fish an important component of the carbon cycle, researchers say, … Read more